The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 105 114 92
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -22
Contract jobs citing BGP 6 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.315% 0.088% 0.280%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.881% 0.714% 2.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £425 £294 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.68% -
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
319 280 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.73% 12.26% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 142 77
Average daily rate £300 £280 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £201 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 31
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -52.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £35.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
BGP
England

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
West Yorkshire +5 4 £325 +10.63%
South Yorkshire - 2 £437 -
BGP
England

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (90.00%) OSPF
3 7 (70.00%) CCNP
3 7 (70.00%) CCNA
3 7 (70.00%) VPN
3 7 (70.00%) Firewall
4 5 (50.00%) MPLS
4 5 (50.00%) CheckPoint
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (50.00%) HSRP
5 4 (40.00%) FWSM
5 4 (40.00%) Network Security
5 4 (40.00%) VRRP
6 3 (30.00%) SNMP
6 3 (30.00%) VLAN
6 3 (30.00%) Nokia
6 3 (30.00%) DNS
6 3 (30.00%) CSS
6 3 (30.00%) Cisco PIX
6 3 (30.00%) Network Management
7 2 (20.00%) TippingPoint
7 2 (20.00%) ITIL
7 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
7 2 (20.00%) RIP
7 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 2 (20.00%) ADSL
7 2 (20.00%) ATM

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) OSPF
2 7 (70.00%) VPN
2 7 (70.00%) Firewall
3 5 (50.00%) MPLS
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (50.00%) HSRP
4 4 (40.00%) FWSM
4 4 (40.00%) Network Security
4 4 (40.00%) VRRP
5 3 (30.00%) SNMP
5 3 (30.00%) VLAN
5 3 (30.00%) DNS
5 3 (30.00%) Cisco PIX
6 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
6 2 (20.00%) RIP
6 2 (20.00%) ADSL
6 2 (20.00%) ATM
6 2 (20.00%) ISDN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Support
3 1 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Network Management
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (70.00%) CCNP
2 7 (70.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) CCSE
3 1 (10.00%) CCSA
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIE
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (30.00%) Nokia
4 2 (20.00%) TippingPoint
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
5 1 (10.00%) OPNET
5 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
5 1 (10.00%) NetScout
5 1 (10.00%) BMC
5 1 (10.00%) Motorola
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) F5
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Posted: 17 May 2013