The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 105 84 -
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -
Permanent jobs citing BGP 11 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.656% 0.551% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.503% 2.787% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 0
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
314 287 246
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 18.74% 19.75% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 253 247 223
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
BGP
West Midlands

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham BGP Jobs Demand Trend

BGP
Salary Trend

This 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

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham BGP Salary Histogram

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

1 23 (100.00%) Cisco
2 17 (73.91%) OSPF
3 16 (69.57%) CheckPoint
4 15 (65.22%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (56.52%) VPN
5 13 (56.52%) Firewall
6 12 (52.17%) WAN
7 11 (47.83%) MPLS
7 11 (47.83%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (43.48%) EIGRP
9 9 (39.13%) Wireless
10 8 (34.78%) CCNP
10 8 (34.78%) FWSM
11 6 (26.09%) FortiGate
11 6 (26.09%) Technical Architecture
11 6 (26.09%) CCIE
11 6 (26.09%) Juniper
11 6 (26.09%) CSS
12 5 (21.74%) Network Design
12 5 (21.74%) VMware
12 5 (21.74%) ITIL
12 5 (21.74%) Windows
12 5 (21.74%) Load Balancing
12 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (21.74%) ITIL V3
13 4 (17.39%) DHCP
13 4 (17.39%) DNS
13 4 (17.39%) LAN
13 4 (17.39%) Change Management
14 3 (13.04%) Blackberry

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 6 (26.09%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 17 (73.91%) OSPF
2 13 (56.52%) VPN
2 13 (56.52%) Firewall
3 12 (52.17%) WAN
4 11 (47.83%) MPLS
4 11 (47.83%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (43.48%) EIGRP
6 9 (39.13%) Wireless
7 8 (34.78%) FWSM
8 4 (17.39%) DNS
8 4 (17.39%) DHCP
8 4 (17.39%) LAN
9 3 (13.04%) VoIP
9 3 (13.04%) VLAN
9 3 (13.04%) SNMP
9 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
10 2 (8.696%) Network Security
10 2 (8.696%) HSRP
10 2 (8.696%) WLAN
10 2 (8.696%) ADSL
General
1 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco Specialist
1 6 (26.09%) Network Specialist
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco Network Specialist
2 5 (21.74%) Technical Design Authority
2 5 (21.74%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Team Leader
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 3 (13.04%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.696%) Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.348%) Design Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Cisco Support
5 1 (4.348%) Storage Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Cisco Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Blackberry
1 3 (13.04%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.348%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (21.74%) Load Balancing
2 5 (21.74%) ITIL
2 5 (21.74%) Network Design
2 5 (21.74%) ITIL V3
3 4 (17.39%) Change Management
4 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
4 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 2 (8.696%) Time Management
5 2 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.696%) Migration
5 2 (8.696%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.696%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.348%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (34.78%) CCNP
3 6 (26.09%) CCIE
4 3 (13.04%) MCSE
4 3 (13.04%) CCNA
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.696%) Check Point Certification
5 2 (8.696%) CCSA
5 2 (8.696%) CCSE
5 2 (8.696%) HP ASE
5 2 (8.696%) HP MASE
5 2 (8.696%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.348%) Cacti
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Cisco
2 16 (69.57%) CheckPoint
3 6 (26.09%) Juniper
4 5 (21.74%) VMware
5 3 (13.04%) F5
6 2 (8.696%) Huawei
6 2 (8.696%) Brocade
6 2 (8.696%) ProCurve
6 2 (8.696%) Aruba
6 2 (8.696%) CommVault
6 2 (8.696%) Hitachi
6 2 (8.696%) Nokia
6 2 (8.696%) 3Com
6 2 (8.696%) HP
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Cisco Firewalls including FWSM and ASAs in multiple context modes. Cisco Loadbalancers including ACE and CSS. Checkpoint Firewalls. Fortigate Firewalls. Understanding of routing protocols including OSPF and BGP...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £50K basic + Car Allow + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013