The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 212 197 232
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +35
Permanent jobs citing BGP 116 130 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.966% 0.987% 0.659%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.431% 6.147% 5.400%
Number of salaries quoted 94 119 99
Average salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £37,400 £39,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2136 2115 1926
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 17.79% 16.06% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1900 1904 1762
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BGP
London

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London BGP Salary Histogram

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 232 (89.58%) Cisco
2 210 (81.08%) Cisco Certification
3 191 (73.75%) OSPF
4 188 (72.59%) MPLS
5 145 (55.98%) Juniper
6 136 (52.51%) Firewall
7 130 (50.19%) CCIE
8 128 (49.42%) CCNP
9 116 (44.79%) WAN
10 107 (41.31%) EIGRP
11 98 (37.84%) VPN
12 92 (35.52%) Wireless
13 85 (32.82%) Cisco ASA
14 82 (31.66%) Cisco Nexus
15 71 (27.41%) TCP/IP
16 70 (27.03%) Finance
17 67 (25.87%) Network Security
17 67 (25.87%) CheckPoint
18 64 (24.71%) DNS
18 64 (24.71%) CCIP
19 60 (23.17%) F5
20 58 (22.39%) LAN
20 58 (22.39%) Network Design
21 55 (21.24%) Ethernet
22 54 (20.85%) CCNA
23 52 (20.08%) VMware
24 50 (19.31%) Cisco IOS
25 47 (18.15%) Internet
26 46 (17.76%) FWSM
27 45 (17.37%) VLAN

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 5 (1.931%) LAMP
2 4 (1.544%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (1.931%) Apache
2 2 (0.772%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (0.772%) MS Exchange
2 2 (0.772%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 11 (4.247%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.544%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.544%) MS Office
3 2 (0.772%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 191 (73.75%) OSPF
2 188 (72.59%) MPLS
3 136 (52.51%) Firewall
4 116 (44.79%) WAN
5 107 (41.31%) EIGRP
6 98 (37.84%) VPN
7 92 (35.52%) Wireless
8 85 (32.82%) Cisco ASA
9 82 (31.66%) Cisco Nexus
10 71 (27.41%) TCP/IP
11 67 (25.87%) Network Security
12 64 (24.71%) DNS
13 58 (22.39%) LAN
14 55 (21.24%) Ethernet
15 50 (19.31%) Cisco IOS
16 47 (18.15%) Internet
17 46 (17.76%) FWSM
18 45 (17.37%) VLAN
19 40 (15.44%) DHCP
20 35 (13.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.089%) MySQL
2 4 (1.544%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 1 (0.386%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.386%) Hudson
General
1 70 (27.03%) Finance
2 38 (14.67%) Telecoms
3 15 (5.792%) Banking
4 7 (2.703%) Investment Banking
4 7 (2.703%) Financial Institution
5 3 (1.158%) Legal
6 2 (0.772%) Games
6 2 (0.772%) Billing
6 2 (0.772%) German Language
7 1 (0.386%) Online Betting
7 1 (0.386%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 119 (45.95%) Network Engineer
2 30 (11.58%) IP Engineer
3 29 (11.20%) Consultant
4 28 (10.81%) Senior Network Engineer
5 24 (9.266%) Firewall Engineer
6 23 (8.880%) IP Network Engineer
6 23 (8.880%) Cisco Engineer
7 20 (7.722%) Technical Design Authority
8 17 (6.564%) Architect
8 17 (6.564%) Support Engineer
9 16 (6.178%) Security Engineer
10 15 (5.792%) Test Engineer
11 12 (4.633%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 12 (4.633%) Cisco Consultant
11 12 (4.633%) Senior Firewall Engineer
12 11 (4.247%) Design Engineer
13 10 (3.861%) Network Security Engineer
13 10 (3.861%) Network Consultant
13 10 (3.861%) Network Support
14 9 (3.475%) Cisco Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.42%) Video Conferencing
2 16 (6.178%) Computer Science
3 8 (3.089%) Open Source
4 5 (1.931%) IVR
5 4 (1.544%) Streaming Media
5 4 (1.544%) iSeries
6 3 (1.158%) IPTV
6 3 (1.158%) Web 2.0
7 2 (0.772%) Blackberry
7 2 (0.772%) Replication
7 2 (0.772%) Derivative
8 1 (0.386%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.386%) SaaS
8 1 (0.386%) Online Games
8 1 (0.386%) Equities
8 1 (0.386%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.386%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.51%) Linux
2 25 (9.653%) Windows
3 13 (5.019%) UNIX
4 7 (2.703%) Solaris
4 7 (2.703%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (2.317%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (1.544%) FreeBSD
7 3 (1.158%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.772%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.386%) CentOS
9 1 (0.386%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (22.39%) Network Design
2 28 (10.81%) Network Management
3 20 (7.722%) Migration
4 16 (6.178%) Load Balancing
5 14 (5.405%) ITIL
6 13 (5.019%) Network Architecture
7 10 (3.861%) Project Management
7 10 (3.861%) Change Control
7 10 (3.861%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (2.703%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (2.703%) Network Load Balancing
9 6 (2.317%) Change Management
10 5 (1.931%) Capacity Management
10 5 (1.931%) Release Management
10 5 (1.931%) Configuration Management
11 4 (1.544%) Information Security
11 4 (1.544%) Incident Management
11 4 (1.544%) Enterprise Architecture
11 4 (1.544%) Project Planning
11 4 (1.544%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.405%) Bash shell
2 12 (4.633%) Perl
3 10 (3.861%) Python
4 4 (1.544%) PHP
4 4 (1.544%) SQL
4 4 (1.544%) AWK
4 4 (1.544%) Ruby
4 4 (1.544%) sed
5 3 (1.158%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.772%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 210 (81.08%) Cisco Certification
2 130 (50.19%) CCIE
3 128 (49.42%) CCNP
4 64 (24.71%) CCIP
5 54 (20.85%) CCNA
6 40 (15.44%) JNCIE
6 40 (15.44%) JNCIA
7 38 (14.67%) JNCIS
8 31 (11.97%) CCSP
9 27 (10.42%) JNCIP
10 19 (7.336%) CCDP
11 17 (6.564%) CISSP
11 17 (6.564%) CCVP
12 16 (6.178%) Degree
13 11 (4.247%) CCDA
14 10 (3.861%) CCSA
15 9 (3.475%) CCSE
16 8 (3.089%) Security Cleared
17 6 (2.317%) SC Cleared
18 3 (1.158%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.42%) PCI DSS
2 12 (4.633%) SLA
3 4 (1.544%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (3.475%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.317%) VMware ESX
4 5 (1.931%) ProxySG
5 4 (1.544%) XenDesktop
6 3 (1.158%) vSphere
7 2 (0.772%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.386%) XenApp
8 1 (0.386%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (8.880%) FortiGate
2 18 (6.950%) CiscoWorks
3 10 (3.861%) Cisco UCCX
3 10 (3.861%) Cisco UCCE
4 8 (3.089%) SolarWinds Orion
5 7 (2.703%) Cacti
5 7 (2.703%) Nagios
6 5 (1.931%) Puppet
7 4 (1.544%) Zenoss
8 3 (1.158%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.772%) WSUS
9 2 (0.772%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.386%) Munin
Vendors
1 232 (89.58%) Cisco
2 145 (55.98%) Juniper
3 67 (25.87%) CheckPoint
4 60 (23.17%) F5
5 52 (20.08%) VMware
6 32 (12.36%) HP
7 25 (9.653%) Fortinet
8 23 (8.880%) Aruba
9 20 (7.722%) Polycom
9 20 (7.722%) Sourcefire
10 14 (5.405%) Remedy
10 14 (5.405%) Microsoft
10 14 (5.405%) Twitter
11 12 (4.633%) Citrix
11 12 (4.633%) SolarWinds
12 9 (3.475%) Foundry
13 8 (3.089%) Oracle
13 8 (3.089%) Blue Coat
14 6 (2.317%) Red Hat
14 6 (2.317%) Infoblox
City of London
The engineer will join the engineering team that holds responsibility optimising and improving the banks Cisco routers and switches, Voice, LAN, WLAN, WAN, firewalls and data connectivity... Ideal...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Banking Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 5 June 2013
City of London
Network Engineer required for a Financial Services client. The Network Engineer will be the local network expert and support multiple sites within UK including 2 Colo sites. This...
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + bens
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
Our client is one of the market leading service providers in the UK managing some of the most complex customer networks within the UK by integrating a number...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
To be successful you must have strong layer 4 - 7 knowledge - HTTP and TCP in particular, being able to demonstrate underlying transport knowledge. Good BGP, DNS (signalling) skills...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
The ideal candidate will have: Cisco CCIP/CCNP or Alcatel Lucent NSR II equivalent level knowledge is essential... ISP/DSL technologies: PPP, DHCP, Radius, DNS, load balancing. Scripting...
Sky
Salary: competitive
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
Intergence Systems Ltd
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum including on-call and callout.
Posted: 10 June 2013
City, London
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus, Healthcare, Pension
Posted: 14 June 2013