The first table below looks at the demand for BGP-4 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP-4 over the 3 months to 22 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol-4 (BGP4)
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing BGP-4 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.286% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.513% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
Average salary £42,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 - £35,000
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
199 264 354
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 11.37% 14.97% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 160 226 264
Average salary £42,500 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.86% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,200 £26,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BGP-4
South West

BGP-4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing BGP-4 across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Bristol BGP-4 Jobs Demand Trend

BGP-4
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BGP-4 across the Bristol region.

Bristol BGP-4 Salary Trend

BGP-4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region citing BGP-4 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-4.

1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) WSH
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) SSL
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) IPv4
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) IPsec
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) Clustering
1 6 (100.00%) OSPF
1 6 (100.00%) Xen
1 6 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 6 (100.00%) Network Security
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008

BGP-4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region citing BGP-4 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-4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) SSL
1 6 (100.00%) IPv4
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) IPsec
1 6 (100.00%) OSPF
1 6 (100.00%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) NGN
2 5 (83.33%) DSL
2 5 (83.33%) 2G
2 5 (83.33%) 3G
2 5 (83.33%) DWDM
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) Ethernet
2 5 (83.33%) PSTN
2 5 (83.33%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 6 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Administrator
1 6 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Systems Test Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Xen
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) ZTE
2 5 (83.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 5 (83.33%) Huawei
2 5 (83.33%) Juniper
2 5 (83.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 5 (83.33%) Siemens
2 5 (83.33%) Nortel