The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 28 42 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Permanent jobs citing BGP 6 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 2.098% 2.047% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 13.46% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 0
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
48 52 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 16.78% 15.20% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44 48 66
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £37,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -12.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £30,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £71,750 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
BGP
London

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

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

Croydon BGP Salary Histogram

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) CCNP
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
4 4 (57.14%) Linux
4 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (57.14%) UNIX
4 4 (57.14%) MPLS
5 3 (42.86%) Fedora
5 3 (42.86%) Backup Exec
5 3 (42.86%) EIGRP
5 3 (42.86%) Change Management
5 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
5 3 (42.86%) VPN
5 3 (42.86%) CCIE
5 3 (42.86%) Solaris
5 3 (42.86%) ITIL
5 3 (42.86%) Apache
5 3 (42.86%) Veritas
5 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
5 3 (42.86%) Juniper
5 3 (42.86%) CCNA
5 3 (42.86%) CCDP
5 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
5 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (42.86%) Bash shell

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 4 (57.14%) MPLS
4 3 (42.86%) VPN
4 3 (42.86%) EIGRP
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (28.57%) Unified Communications
5 2 (28.57%) FWSM
5 2 (28.57%) SSH
5 2 (28.57%) TELNET
6 1 (14.29%) IPsec
6 1 (14.29%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (14.29%) DNS
6 1 (14.29%) SAN
6 1 (14.29%) LDAP
6 1 (14.29%) LAN
6 1 (14.29%) VoIP
6 1 (14.29%) WAN
6 1 (14.29%) SNMP
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Graduate
1 2 (28.57%) Junior
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Graduate Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Pre Sales Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Sales Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Open Source
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Fedora
3 3 (42.86%) Solaris
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
1 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash shell
2 2 (28.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CCNP
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCIE
2 3 (42.86%) CCNA
2 3 (42.86%) CCDP
3 2 (28.57%) CCSP
3 2 (28.57%) CCIP
3 2 (28.57%) CCSA
3 2 (28.57%) CCVP
3 2 (28.57%) CCSE
3 2 (28.57%) JNCIA
3 2 (28.57%) JNCIS
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) CCDE
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (14.29%) MCTS
4 1 (14.29%) MCITP
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (14.29%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Backup Exec
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
3 3 (42.86%) Juniper
3 3 (42.86%) Veritas
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) F5
5 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) Sun
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) Dell
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix