Edinburgh BGP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Location Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dundee Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Kent Kettering Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Portsmouth Reading Romsey Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	105
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.367 %	0.361 %
Salaries quoted	7	1
Average minimum salary	£43,571	£26,000
Average salary	£47,857	£29,500
% change on same period last year	+62.22 %
Average maximum salary	£52,143	£33,000
UK excluding London average salary	£44,126	£45,294
% change on same period last year	-2.58 %
Communications & Networking Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	229	277
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.123 %
Salaries quoted	161	205
Average minimum salary	£33,825	£32,830
Average salary	£37,805	£34,679
% change on same period last year	+9.01 %
Average maximum salary	£41,785	£36,528
UK excluding London average salary	£37,693	£39,086
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
BGP Scotland

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing BGP across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing BGP across the Edinburgh region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Edinburgh region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing BGP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing BGP.

1 21 (95.45 %) Cisco Certification 1 21 (95.45 %) OSPF 2 20 (90.91 %) LAN 2 20 (90.91 %) WAN 2 20 (90.91 %) Cisco 2 20 (90.91 %) CCNP 3 18 (81.82 %) Firewall 4 17 (77.27 %) VPN 4 17 (77.27 %) CheckPoint 5 12 (54.55 %) CCIE 6 11 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 6 11 (50.00 %) IPsec 7 10 (45.45 %) CCSP 7 10 (45.45 %) SSL 8 9 (40.91 %) Juniper

8 9 (40.91 %) CISSP 8 9 (40.91 %) Finance 8 9 (40.91 %) Blue Coat 8 9 (40.91 %) Network Security 9 6 (27.27 %) Nokia 9 6 (27.27 %) Unix 10 4 (18.18 %) MPLS 11 3 (13.64 %) Health 11 3 (13.64 %) Pensions 11 3 (13.64 %) EIGRP 11 3 (13.64 %) VoIP 12 2 (9.091 %) Ethernet 12 2 (9.091 %) Java 12 2 (9.091 %) Sun 12 2 (9.091 %) CCIP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing BGP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing BGP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 21 (95.45 %) OSPF 2 20 (90.91 %) LAN 2 20 (90.91 %) WAN 3 18 (81.82 %) Firewall 4 17 (77.27 %) VPN 5 11 (50.00 %) IPsec 5 11 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 6 10 (45.45 %) SSL 7 9 (40.91 %) Network Security 8 4 (18.18 %) MPLS 9 3 (13.64 %) EIGRP 9 3 (13.64 %) VoIP 10 2 (9.091 %) Ethernet 10 2 (9.091 %) VLAN 10 2 (9.091 %) Cisco IOS 11 1 (4.545 %) Cisco PIX 11 1 (4.545 %) SSH 11 1 (4.545 %) RIP 11 1 (4.545 %) Internet 11 1 (4.545 %) ADSL	General 1 9 (40.91 %) Finance 2 3 (13.64 %) Health 2 3 (13.64 %) Pensions 3 2 (9.091 %) Telecoms 4 1 (4.545 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 9 (40.91 %) Network Consultant 1 9 (40.91 %) Consultant 2 8 (36.36 %) Security Consultant 2 8 (36.36 %) Network Security Consultant 3 6 (27.27 %) Analyst 3 6 (27.27 %) Network Analyst 3 6 (27.27 %) Data Analyst 4 4 (18.18 %) Network Engineer 5 2 (9.091 %) Network Designer 6 1 (4.545 %) Senior Network Engineer	Operating Systems 1 6 (27.27 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (9.091 %) Change Management 2 1 (4.545 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (4.545 %) ITIL 2 1 (4.545 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (9.091 %) Java
Qualifications 1 21 (95.45 %) Cisco Certification 2 20 (90.91 %) CCNP 3 12 (54.55 %) CCIE 4 10 (45.45 %) CCSP 5 9 (40.91 %) CISSP 6 2 (9.091 %) CCIP 6 2 (9.091 %) Degree 7 1 (4.545 %) CCDE 7 1 (4.545 %) ITIL Certification 7 1 (4.545 %) CCSE 7 1 (4.545 %) CCDP	System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory 1 2 (9.091 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 20 (90.91 %) Cisco 2 17 (77.27 %) CheckPoint 3 9 (40.91 %) Blue Coat 3 9 (40.91 %) Juniper 4 6 (27.27 %) Nokia 5 2 (9.091 %) Sun 5 2 (9.091 %) Sourcefire