The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 21 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 Sheffield 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank - - 22
Contract jobs citing BGP 0 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield - - 2.667%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -29.68%
All Communications & Networking
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20 17 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 13.33% 12.23% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 11
Average daily rate £375 £400 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +77.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £268 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £550 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £60.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
BGP
South Yorkshire

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield BGP Hourly Rate Trend

BGP
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint