The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Leeds region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 74 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Contract jobs citing BGP 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.268% 0.225% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.136% 1.667% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £325 £294 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.63% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -29.68%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
176 120 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.62% 13.48% 9.425%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 57 21
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £350 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.75 £13.50 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+157.40% -31.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
BGP
West Yorkshire

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BGP across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Leeds BGP Jobs Demand Trend

BGP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BGP across the Leeds region.

Leeds BGP Daily Rate Trend

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing BGP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BGP.

1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (50.00%) ADSL
3 2 (50.00%) ATM
3 2 (50.00%) ISDN
3 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (50.00%) HSRP
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (25.00%) BMC
4 1 (25.00%) Motorola
4 1 (25.00%) Lisp
4 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (25.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) WLAN
4 1 (25.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
4 1 (25.00%) TippingPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing BGP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BGP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) MPLS
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (50.00%) ADSL
2 2 (50.00%) ATM
2 2 (50.00%) ISDN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) HSRP
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) FWSM
3 1 (25.00%) DMVPN
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCSA
3 1 (25.00%) CCSE
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) Motorola
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) OPNET
2 1 (25.00%) TippingPoint
2 1 (25.00%) F5
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Austin Fraser are currently looking for a Network Security Engineerbased in Leeds for an initial 6 month contract with view to extensions. The role of the Network Security...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013