East of England RIP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Routing Information Protocol (RIP) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited RIP over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Location Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bradford Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dundee Dunstable East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Exeter Greenford Hampshire Hertfordshire Keighley Kettering Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Romsey Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon UK Wakefield Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	263	206
Rank change on same period last year	-57
Matching permanent IT job ads	19	78
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	0.700 %	2.832 %
Salaries quoted	13	63
Average minimum salary	£34,846	£36,444
Average salary	£38,038	£38,484
% change on same period last year	-1.15 %
Average maximum salary	£41,231	£40,524
UK excluding London average salary	£42,120	£40,365
% change on same period last year	+4.34 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	2715	2754
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.417 %	1.136 %
Salaries quoted	2229	2316
Average minimum salary	£35,343	£36,345
Average salary	£38,198	£39,360
% change on same period last year	-2.95 %
Average maximum salary	£41,052	£42,376
UK excluding London average salary	£37,379	£39,687
% change on same period last year	-5.81 %
RIP England

RIP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing RIP across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

RIP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RIP across the East of England region.

RIP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RIP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

RIP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing RIP within the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedfordshire	-7	12	£38,000	+2.85 %
Hertfordshire	-13	4	£45,000	+1.88 %
Cambridgeshire	-39	3	£31,167	-15.62 %

RIP England

RIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England region citing RIP 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 RIP.

1 27 (84.38 %) Cisco 1 27 (84.38 %) OSPF 2 25 (78.13 %) BGP 3 22 (68.75 %) TCP/IP 4 21 (65.63 %) ISDN 4 21 (65.63 %) Firewall 5 19 (59.38 %) VoIP 5 19 (59.38 %) MPLS 6 17 (53.13 %) ATM 7 15 (46.88 %) Cisco Certification 8 14 (43.75 %) WAN 8 14 (43.75 %) LAN 9 13 (40.63 %) NetScreen 10 12 (37.50 %) Juniper 10 12 (37.50 %) OpenView

10 12 (37.50 %) HP 11 10 (31.25 %) Cisco PIX 12 9 (28.13 %) SSL 13 8 (25.00 %) Finance 14 6 (18.75 %) Telecoms 14 6 (18.75 %) CCNA 14 6 (18.75 %) UNIX 14 6 (18.75 %) Linux 15 5 (15.63 %) MS Office 15 5 (15.63 %) MS Visio 15 5 (15.63 %) VPN 16 4 (12.50 %) DNS 16 4 (12.50 %) CCNP 16 4 (12.50 %) Shell Script 16 4 (12.50 %) SONET

RIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England region citing RIP 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 RIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (9.375 %) CSS	Applications 1 5 (15.63 %) MS Office 1 5 (15.63 %) MS Visio 2 2 (6.250 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 27 (84.38 %) OSPF 2 25 (78.13 %) BGP 3 22 (68.75 %) TCP/IP 4 21 (65.63 %) ISDN 4 21 (65.63 %) Firewall 5 19 (59.38 %) VoIP 5 19 (59.38 %) MPLS 6 17 (53.13 %) ATM 7 14 (43.75 %) WAN 7 14 (43.75 %) LAN 8 13 (40.63 %) NetScreen 9 10 (31.25 %) Cisco PIX 10 9 (28.13 %) SSL 11 5 (15.63 %) VPN 12 4 (12.50 %) DNS 12 4 (12.50 %) Ethernet 12 4 (12.50 %) SDH 12 4 (12.50 %) SONET 12 4 (12.50 %) C7 12 4 (12.50 %) Megaco	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.250 %) MySQL
General 1 8 (25.00 %) Finance 2 6 (18.75 %) Telecoms 3 4 (12.50 %) Multimedia 4 1 (3.125 %) Marketing 4 1 (3.125 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 15 (46.88 %) Network Engineer 2 14 (43.75 %) Analyst 3 13 (40.63 %) Network Analyst 3 13 (40.63 %) Network Support 4 10 (31.25 %) Support Analyst 4 10 (31.25 %) Network Support Analyst 5 5 (15.63 %) Support Engineer 5 5 (15.63 %) Network Support Engineer 6 4 (12.50 %) Network Design Engineer 6 4 (12.50 %) Design Engineer 6 4 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support 7 3 (9.375 %) Implementation Analyst 8 2 (6.250 %) Cisco Network Engineer 8 2 (6.250 %) Security Engineer 8 2 (6.250 %) Cisco Engineer 8 2 (6.250 %) Network Security Engineer 9 1 (3.125 %) Support Specialist 9 1 (3.125 %) Applications Support 9 1 (3.125 %) Network Consultant 9 1 (3.125 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.250 %) SecurID	Operating Systems 1 6 (18.75 %) UNIX 1 6 (18.75 %) Linux 2 1 (3.125 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.50 %) Network Design 2 2 (6.250 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (3.125 %) Data Security 3 1 (3.125 %) Workflow 3 1 (3.125 %) Product Marketing	Programming Languages 1 4 (12.50 %) Perl 1 4 (12.50 %) Shell Script 2 1 (3.125 %) C
Qualifications 1 15 (46.88 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (18.75 %) CCNA 3 4 (12.50 %) CCNP 4 2 (6.250 %) CCSP 5 1 (3.125 %) JNCIS 5 1 (3.125 %) JNCIE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.125 %) SLA
Systems Management 1 12 (37.50 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 27 (84.38 %) Cisco 2 12 (37.50 %) HP 2 12 (37.50 %) Juniper 3 1 (3.125 %) CheckPoint