The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 121 - 123
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing BGP 1 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.055% - 0.183%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.306% - 0.864%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
Average salary - - £29,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
327 374 463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 18.12% 18.51% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 254 310 407
Average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,650 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £53,550
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BGP
Cambridgeshire

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) CCIP
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) ProCurve
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Twitter
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Design Authority
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIP
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIE
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) ProCurve
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Twitter