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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 88 69 -
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -
Permanent jobs citing BGP 3 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.262% 0.422% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.158% 1.754% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
259 171 211
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 22.60% 24.05% 19.63%
Number of salaries quoted 219 160 178
Average salary £40,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.71% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BGP
South East

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Kent BGP Salary Histogram

BGP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £55,000 -
BGP
South East

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (60.00%) CCNP
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Juniper
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
4 2 (40.00%) VoIP
4 2 (40.00%) CCNA
4 2 (40.00%) VLAN
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) SLA
4 2 (40.00%) MPLS
5 1 (20.00%) System Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (20.00%) Communications Security
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (20.00%) Riverbed
5 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Foundry
5 1 (20.00%) Network Management
5 1 (20.00%) F5
5 1 (20.00%) PABX
5 1 (20.00%) Internet
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) Finance

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 1 (20.00%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
4 2 (40.00%) VoIP
4 2 (40.00%) VLAN
4 2 (40.00%) MPLS
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (20.00%) PABX
5 1 (20.00%) Internet
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) WLAN
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) IPv4
5 1 (20.00%) IPv6
5 1 (20.00%) DHCP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Pre Sales Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Communications Security
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Snort
1 1 (20.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (20.00%) Foundry
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Sourcefire
3 1 (20.00%) Brocade
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
Kent
Essential Skills: CCNA certified. Good wireless networking. Firewall / WAN management. Excellent understanding of TCP/IP Routing and Switching (OSPF, BGP, MPLS VPNs, IP Multicast) Desirable: CCNP certified... Knowledge...
ComputAppoint
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013