The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 23 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 North West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 116 124 125
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +1
Contract jobs citing BGP 2 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.085% 0.160% 0.064%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.660% 0.888% 0.416%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -29.68%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
303 563 481
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 12.93% 18.03% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 223 245
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £175 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £462 £461 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 36 45
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.93 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.11% -41.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
BGP
England

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West BGP Daily Rate Trend

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BGP across the North West region.

North West BGP Hourly Rate Trend

BGP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire - 2 - -
BGP
England

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) IGRP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) PBX
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) IVR
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (33.33%) ProxySG
3 1 (33.33%) JNCIA
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) Nortel
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (33.33%) Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) IGRP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) PBX
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (33.33%) Nortel