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This section looks at the demand for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) skills within the Birmingham 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank125110
Rank change on same period last yearDown-15
Matching permanent IT job ads1219
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.006 %0.008 %
As % of the category below2.537 %4.121 %
Salaries quoted1119
Average minimum salary£39,545£42,895
Average salary£40,818£42,895
% change on same period last year-4.84 %
Average maximum salary£42,091£42,895
UK excluding London average salary£43,398£44,504
% change on same period last year-2.48 %
Birmingham IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads473461
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.250 %0.189 %
Salaries quoted422354
Average minimum salary£32,100£34,374
Average salary£34,486£36,118
% change on same period last year-4.52 %
Average maximum salary£36,871£37,863
UK excluding London average salary£37,397£39,734
% change on same period last year-5.88 %
BGP West MidlandsBGP
West Midlands

BGP
Demand Trend

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

Birmingham BGP Demand Trend

BGP
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Birmingham BGP Salary Histogram

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

115 (88.24 %)Cisco Certification
213 (76.47 %)Cisco
312 (70.59 %)CCNP
411 (64.71 %)MPLS
411 (64.71 %)Firewall
510 (58.82 %)OSPF
67 (41.18 %)WAN
67 (41.18 %)Load Balancing
67 (41.18 %)Cisco PIX
76 (35.29 %)LAN
76 (35.29 %)CCNA
85 (29.41 %)CheckPoint
85 (29.41 %)Network Security
94 (23.53 %)CCSP
94 (23.53 %)VPN
94 (23.53 %)SSL
94 (23.53 %)VoIP
94 (23.53 %)ADSL
94 (23.53 %)ISDN
103 (17.65 %)SNMP
103 (17.65 %)IPsec
112 (11.76 %)Risk Management
112 (11.76 %)CCSA
112 (11.76 %)Information Security
112 (11.76 %)CCSE
112 (11.76 %)Security Cleared
112 (11.76 %)SecurID
112 (11.76 %)Security Testing
112 (11.76 %)RIP
112 (11.76 %)Windows

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Birmingham IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
111 (64.71 %)MPLS
111 (64.71 %)Firewall
210 (58.82 %)OSPF
37 (41.18 %)WAN
37 (41.18 %)Cisco PIX
46 (35.29 %)LAN
55 (29.41 %)Network Security
64 (23.53 %)VoIP
64 (23.53 %)ADSL
64 (23.53 %)ISDN
64 (23.53 %)VPN
64 (23.53 %)SSL
73 (17.65 %)IPsec
73 (17.65 %)SNMP
82 (11.76 %)RIP
82 (11.76 %)EIGRP
91 (5.882 %)BIG-IP
91 (5.882 %)VLAN
91 (5.882 %)IPv4
91 (5.882 %)IPv6
Birmingham IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (5.882 %)Telecoms
11 (5.882 %)Finance
11 (5.882 %)Government
11 (5.882 %)Manufacturing
11 (5.882 %)Retail
11 (5.882 %)Insurance
11 (5.882 %)Pensions
Birmingham IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
112 (70.59 %)Network Engineer
24 (23.53 %)Senior Network Engineer
32 (11.76 %)Penetration Tester
32 (11.76 %)Network Support
32 (11.76 %)Tester
41 (5.882 %)Technical Architect
41 (5.882 %)Architect
41 (5.882 %)Network Specialist
41 (5.882 %)Firewall Specialist
41 (5.882 %)Implementation Engineer
41 (5.882 %)Systems Engineer
41 (5.882 %)Senior Systems Engineer
41 (5.882 %)Support Engineer
Birmingham IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12 (11.76 %)SecurID
Birmingham IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12 (11.76 %)Windows
21 (5.882 %)Windows 2000
21 (5.882 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (5.882 %)UNIX
Birmingham IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
17 (41.18 %)Load Balancing
22 (11.76 %)Security Testing
22 (11.76 %)Security Cleared
22 (11.76 %)Risk Management
22 (11.76 %)Information Security
31 (5.882 %)Network Design
31 (5.882 %)ITIL
31 (5.882 %)Service Delivery
Birmingham IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (5.882 %)SQL
Birmingham IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
115 (88.24 %)Cisco Certification
212 (70.59 %)CCNP
36 (35.29 %)CCNA
44 (23.53 %)CCSP
52 (11.76 %)CCSA
52 (11.76 %)CCSE
61 (5.882 %)CCIE
61 (5.882 %)CCIP
Birmingham IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (5.882 %)ISO9000
11 (5.882 %)SLA
Birmingham IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
113 (76.47 %)Cisco
25 (29.41 %)CheckPoint
31 (5.882 %)Microsoft
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