Berkshire BGP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Location Aberdeen Accrington Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wembley West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	176	258
Rank change on same period last year	+82
Matching permanent IT job ads	83	40
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	3.181 %	1.224 %
Salaries quoted	68	35
Average minimum salary	£43,478	£43,171
Average salary	£47,826	£47,546
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
Average maximum salary	£52,174	£51,921
UK excluding London average salary	£43,649	£43,704
% change on same period last year	-0.12 %
Communications & Networking Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2609	3269
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.404 %	1.363 %
Salaries quoted	2251	2600
Average minimum salary	£38,986	£39,866
Average salary	£42,287	£43,141
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Average maximum salary	£45,588	£46,415
UK excluding London average salary	£37,584	£39,545
% change on same period last year	-4.96 %
BGP South East

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing BGP across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BGP across the Berkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+30	18	£44,486	-16.58 %
Bracknell	+40	12	£56,250	+25.00 %
Slough	0	8	£48,214	+24.82 %
Newbury	-	5	£63,800	-
Windsor	-	4	-	-
Maidenhead	-	3	£35,000	-

BGP South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BGP.

1 125 (89.93 %) Cisco 2 103 (74.10 %) MPLS 3 97 (69.78 %) Cisco Certification 4 85 (61.15 %) OSPF 5 80 (57.55 %) CCNP 6 66 (47.48 %) WAN 7 58 (41.73 %) VPN 8 57 (41.01 %) LAN 9 47 (33.81 %) Frame Relay 10 45 (32.37 %) ATM 11 44 (31.65 %) CCIE 12 41 (29.50 %) CCDP 12 41 (29.50 %) EIGRP 13 37 (26.62 %) Firewall 13 37 (26.62 %) CCIP

14 35 (25.18 %) TCP/IP 15 34 (24.46 %) Telecoms 16 33 (23.74 %) Network Design 17 30 (21.58 %) Ethernet 18 29 (20.86 %) CCNA 18 29 (20.86 %) Juniper 19 27 (19.42 %) Internet 19 27 (19.42 %) VoIP 19 27 (19.42 %) IPsec 19 27 (19.42 %) Cisco PIX 20 23 (16.55 %) Cisco ASA 21 19 (13.67 %) RIP 22 17 (12.23 %) Alcatel 23 16 (11.51 %) SDH 24 15 (10.79 %) CSS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BGP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 15 (10.79 %) CSS 2 1 (0.719 %) Middleware 2 1 (0.719 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (2.158 %) MTS 2 1 (0.719 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 2 (1.439 %) MS Office 2 1 (0.719 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 103 (74.10 %) MPLS 2 85 (61.15 %) OSPF 3 66 (47.48 %) WAN 4 58 (41.73 %) VPN 5 57 (41.01 %) LAN 6 47 (33.81 %) Frame Relay 7 45 (32.37 %) ATM 8 41 (29.50 %) EIGRP 9 37 (26.62 %) Firewall 10 35 (25.18 %) TCP/IP 11 30 (21.58 %) Ethernet 12 27 (19.42 %) VoIP 12 27 (19.42 %) Internet 12 27 (19.42 %) IPsec 12 27 (19.42 %) Cisco PIX 13 23 (16.55 %) Cisco ASA 14 19 (13.67 %) RIP 15 16 (11.51 %) SDH 16 15 (10.79 %) DNS 17 14 (10.07 %) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (0.719 %) MySQL	General 1 34 (24.46 %) Telecoms 2 14 (10.07 %) Finance 3 6 (4.317 %) Education 4 4 (2.878 %) Government 5 1 (0.719 %) Retail 5 1 (0.719 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 58 (41.73 %) Network Engineer 2 25 (17.99 %) Support Engineer 3 24 (17.27 %) Architect 4 20 (14.39 %) Network Support 5 15 (10.79 %) Network Support Engineer 6 9 (6.475 %) Consultant 7 8 (5.755 %) Cisco Engineer 8 7 (5.036 %) Design Engineer 8 7 (5.036 %) Cisco Architect 9 6 (4.317 %) Test Engineer 9 6 (4.317 %) Senior Network Engineer 10 5 (3.597 %) Cisco Network Engineer 10 5 (3.597 %) NOC Engineer 10 5 (3.597 %) Technical Consultant 10 5 (3.597 %) Network Designer 10 5 (3.597 %) Network Design Engineer 11 4 (2.878 %) IP Network Engineer 11 4 (2.878 %) Network Architect 12 3 (2.158 %) Network Specialist 12 3 (2.158 %) Cisco Support	Miscellaneous 1 5 (3.597 %) Computer Science 2 2 (1.439 %) French Language 2 2 (1.439 %) German Language 2 2 (1.439 %) Italian Language 2 2 (1.439 %) Spanish Language 3 1 (0.719 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 6 (4.317 %) UNIX 2 5 (3.597 %) Windows 2 5 (3.597 %) Solaris 3 3 (2.158 %) Linux 3 3 (2.158 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (23.74 %) Network Design 2 10 (7.194 %) Load Balancing 3 9 (6.475 %) Problem Management 4 7 (5.036 %) ITIL 5 6 (4.317 %) Fault Management 5 6 (4.317 %) Security Cleared 6 4 (2.878 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (2.158 %) BC Cleared 7 3 (2.158 %) Migration 8 2 (1.439 %) Performance Management 9 1 (0.719 %) Communications Security 9 1 (0.719 %) UML 9 1 (0.719 %) Configuration Management 9 1 (0.719 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (0.719 %) C 1 1 (0.719 %) C++ 1 1 (0.719 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 97 (69.78 %) Cisco Certification 2 80 (57.55 %) CCNP 3 44 (31.65 %) CCIE 4 41 (29.50 %) CCDP 5 37 (26.62 %) CCIP 6 29 (20.86 %) CCNA 7 12 (8.633 %) MBA 8 11 (7.914 %) CCVP 8 11 (7.914 %) CCSP 9 10 (7.194 %) CCDA 10 7 (5.036 %) JNCIA 10 7 (5.036 %) Degree 11 5 (3.597 %) CCDE 11 5 (3.597 %) JNCIS 12 1 (0.719 %) JNCIP 12 1 (0.719 %) JNCIE 12 1 (0.719 %) CCSA 12 1 (0.719 %) Microsoft Certification 12 1 (0.719 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (5.036 %) SLA 2 5 (3.597 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (0.719 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 1 (0.719 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 15 (10.79 %) CiscoWorks 2 3 (2.158 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 125 (89.93 %) Cisco 2 29 (20.86 %) Juniper 3 17 (12.23 %) Alcatel 4 14 (10.07 %) HP 5 11 (7.914 %) CheckPoint 6 10 (7.194 %) Lucent 7 7 (5.036 %) Nortel 8 6 (4.317 %) Siebel 9 4 (2.878 %) Microsoft 10 3 (2.158 %) Nokia 10 3 (2.158 %) BT 11 2 (1.439 %) Remedy 11 2 (1.439 %) Sun 12 1 (0.719 %) NetApp 12 1 (0.719 %) VMware 12 1 (0.719 %) Blue Coat 12 1 (0.719 %) SonicWALL 12 1 (0.719 %) Draytek