The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 20 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 310 300 377
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +77
Permanent jobs citing BGP 332 422 257
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.763% 0.784% 0.453%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.182% 4.725% 3.339%
Number of salaries quoted 273 354 229
Average salary £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.54% -8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £35,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7938 8931 7698
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 18.25% 16.59% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6541 7592 6504
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
BGP
England

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 20 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
City of London -24 110 £55,000 -12.00%
Croydon +10 7 £35,000 +16.66%
Docklands, London +8 4 £67,500 +141.07%
Harrow -2 1 £37,500 -
Canary Wharf -13 1 - -
Surbiton - 1 £47,000 -
Bromley - 1 £75,000 -
BGP
England

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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.

1 614 (93.03%) Cisco
2 525 (79.55%) OSPF
3 495 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
4 382 (57.88%) MPLS
4 382 (57.88%) Firewall
5 347 (52.58%) CCNP
6 340 (51.52%) WAN
7 321 (48.64%) VPN
8 307 (46.52%) Juniper
9 296 (44.85%) EIGRP
10 246 (37.27%) CCIE
11 242 (36.67%) LAN
12 236 (35.76%) Cisco ASA
13 228 (34.55%) CheckPoint
14 214 (32.42%) CCNA
15 199 (30.15%) Wireless
16 198 (30.00%) TCP/IP
17 184 (27.88%) Network Security
18 170 (25.76%) DNS
19 164 (24.85%) Finance
20 148 (22.42%) Cisco Nexus
21 132 (20.00%) F5
22 121 (18.33%) Cisco PIX
22 121 (18.33%) Network Design
23 117 (17.73%) Ethernet
24 113 (17.12%) FWSM
25 112 (16.97%) Windows
26 109 (16.52%) VLAN
27 108 (16.36%) VoIP
28 107 (16.21%) CCIP

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 25 (3.788%) CSS
2 7 (1.061%) LAMP
3 6 (0.909%) Middleware
4 4 (0.606%) .NET
4 4 (0.606%) ASP
4 4 (0.606%) HTML5
5 3 (0.455%) ASP.NET
5 3 (0.455%) HTML
6 2 (0.303%) Web Services
6 2 (0.303%) ADO.NET
6 2 (0.303%) NancyFx
6 2 (0.303%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.303%) Spring
6 2 (0.303%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.303%) WCF
7 1 (0.152%) Silverlight
7 1 (0.152%) COM
Application Platforms
1 19 (2.879%) Apache
2 16 (2.424%) IIS
3 13 (1.970%) MS Exchange
4 11 (1.667%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (1.061%) Lync
6 6 (0.909%) nginx
6 6 (0.909%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.455%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.455%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.303%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.152%) CMS
9 1 (0.152%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.152%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (4.394%) MS Excel
2 24 (3.636%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.515%) MS PowerPoint
4 9 (1.364%) MS Office
5 1 (0.152%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.152%) RMDS
1 1 (0.152%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 525 (79.55%) OSPF
2 382 (57.88%) MPLS
2 382 (57.88%) Firewall
3 340 (51.52%) WAN
4 321 (48.64%) VPN
5 296 (44.85%) EIGRP
6 242 (36.67%) LAN
7 236 (35.76%) Cisco ASA
8 199 (30.15%) Wireless
9 198 (30.00%) TCP/IP
10 184 (27.88%) Network Security
11 170 (25.76%) DNS
12 148 (22.42%) Cisco Nexus
13 121 (18.33%) Cisco PIX
14 117 (17.73%) Ethernet
15 113 (17.12%) FWSM
16 109 (16.52%) VLAN
17 108 (16.36%) VoIP
18 105 (15.91%) Cisco IOS
19 84 (12.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.030%) MySQL
2 8 (1.212%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.909%) Big Data
4 5 (0.758%) ObjectStore
5 4 (0.606%) OLAP
6 3 (0.455%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.303%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.303%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.303%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.152%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.152%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 16 (2.424%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 8 (1.212%) Subversion
3 4 (0.606%) Git (software)
4 3 (0.455%) Hudson
4 3 (0.455%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.303%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.303%) NCover
5 2 (0.303%) Talend Open Studio
5 2 (0.303%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.303%) NUnit
5 2 (0.303%) CruiseControl
5 2 (0.303%) Visual Studio
General
1 164 (24.85%) Finance
2 101 (15.30%) Telecoms
3 62 (9.394%) Banking
4 13 (1.970%) Financial Institution
5 12 (1.818%) Law
5 12 (1.818%) Investment Banking
6 6 (0.909%) Retail
6 6 (0.909%) Electronics
7 5 (0.758%) Marketing
8 4 (0.606%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.303%) Publishing
9 2 (0.303%) Games
9 2 (0.303%) German Language
9 2 (0.303%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.303%) Billing
10 1 (0.152%) Online Betting
10 1 (0.152%) Local Government
10 1 (0.152%) Advertising
10 1 (0.152%) Legal
Job Titles
1 321 (48.64%) Network Engineer
2 87 (13.18%) Consultant
3 78 (11.82%) Senior Network Engineer
4 44 (6.667%) IP Engineer
5 41 (6.212%) Support Engineer
6 40 (6.061%) Network Consultant
6 40 (6.061%) Cisco Engineer
7 39 (5.909%) IP Network Engineer
8 37 (5.606%) Network Manager
8 37 (5.606%) Architect
9 35 (5.303%) Cisco Consultant
10 32 (4.848%) Network Support
11 31 (4.697%) Analyst
12 28 (4.242%) Network Support Engineer
13 27 (4.091%) Design Engineer
14 26 (3.939%) Network Analyst
15 25 (3.788%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 24 (3.636%) Security Engineer
16 24 (3.636%) Firewall Engineer
17 23 (3.485%) Technical Design Authority
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.667%) Video Conferencing
2 30 (4.545%) Computer Science
3 12 (1.818%) Mathematics
4 11 (1.667%) Streaming Video
5 10 (1.515%) Physics
5 10 (1.515%) Open Source
6 8 (1.212%) Statistics
7 7 (1.061%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.061%) Digital Media
8 6 (0.909%) SaaS
8 6 (0.909%) Replication
8 6 (0.909%) Blackberry
8 6 (0.909%) e-Health
8 6 (0.909%) Streaming Media
9 5 (0.758%) IVR
9 5 (0.758%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.606%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.606%) Video on Demand
10 4 (0.606%) SecurID
11 3 (0.455%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 112 (16.97%) Windows
2 98 (14.85%) Linux
3 83 (12.58%) UNIX
4 27 (4.091%) Windows Server 2003
5 22 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
6 14 (2.121%) Solaris
7 13 (1.970%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (1.818%) CentOS
9 7 (1.061%) Windows 2000
10 5 (0.758%) FreeBSD
10 5 (0.758%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.606%) Windows XP
11 4 (0.606%) Fedora
12 3 (0.455%) VMS
12 3 (0.455%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.152%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (18.33%) Network Design
2 93 (14.09%) Network Management
3 61 (9.242%) Load Balancing
4 56 (8.485%) ITIL
5 40 (6.061%) Project Management
6 35 (5.303%) Capacity Planning
7 32 (4.848%) Migration
8 28 (4.242%) Network Load Balancing
8 28 (4.242%) Network Architecture
9 21 (3.182%) E-Commerce
10 19 (2.879%) Change Management
10 19 (2.879%) Change Control
11 15 (2.273%) Configuration Management
12 14 (2.121%) Incident Management
13 13 (1.970%) Service Delivery
14 12 (1.818%) PRINCE
14 12 (1.818%) Scrum
14 12 (1.818%) Agile Software Development
14 12 (1.818%) Data Protection
15 11 (1.667%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 22 (3.333%) Bash shell
2 20 (3.030%) Perl
3 17 (2.576%) SQL
3 17 (2.576%) Python
4 10 (1.515%) PHP
5 5 (0.758%) Tcl
5 5 (0.758%) sed
5 5 (0.758%) AWK
5 5 (0.758%) Ruby
6 3 (0.455%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.303%) C#
7 2 (0.303%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.303%) Korn
8 1 (0.152%) C
Qualifications
1 495 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 347 (52.58%) CCNP
3 246 (37.27%) CCIE
4 214 (32.42%) CCNA
5 107 (16.21%) CCIP
6 95 (14.39%) CCDP
7 60 (9.091%) JNCIS
7 60 (9.091%) Degree
8 58 (8.788%) JNCIA
9 46 (6.970%) JNCIE
10 44 (6.667%) CCSP
11 43 (6.515%) CCDA
12 36 (5.455%) JNCIP
12 36 (5.455%) CCVP
13 34 (5.152%) CCSA
14 26 (3.939%) CISSP
15 24 (3.636%) Check Point Certification
16 23 (3.485%) CCSE
17 14 (2.121%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (1.970%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.333%) SLA
2 27 (4.091%) PCI DSS
3 12 (1.818%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.303%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.152%) QA
5 1 (0.152%) BS25999
System Software
1 59 (8.939%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (4.545%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.182%) ProxySG
4 19 (2.879%) vSphere
5 6 (0.909%) VMware ESX
6 5 (0.758%) ISA Server
6 5 (0.758%) XenServer
7 2 (0.303%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.303%) XenApp
8 1 (0.152%) NFS
8 1 (0.152%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.152%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.152%) Nmap
8 1 (0.152%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.152%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (7.424%) CiscoWorks
2 40 (6.061%) SolarWinds Orion
3 29 (4.394%) FortiGate
4 22 (3.333%) Nagios
5 17 (2.576%) Cisco UCCX
6 16 (2.424%) Puppet
7 11 (1.667%) Cacti
8 10 (1.515%) Cisco UCCE
8 10 (1.515%) Backup Exec
8 10 (1.515%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (0.909%) OSSEC
9 6 (0.909%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 5 (0.758%) Zenoss
10 5 (0.758%) WSUS
11 4 (0.606%) Norton AntiVirus
11 4 (0.606%) Cisco IPCC
12 3 (0.455%) Munin
13 1 (0.152%) OpenView
13 1 (0.152%) EMC Navisphere
13 1 (0.152%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 614 (93.03%) Cisco
2 307 (46.52%) Juniper
3 228 (34.55%) CheckPoint
4 132 (20.00%) F5
5 91 (13.79%) VMware
6 67 (10.15%) SolarWinds
7 56 (8.485%) Microsoft
8 51 (7.727%) Citrix
9 48 (7.273%) HP
10 39 (5.909%) Aruba
11 37 (5.606%) Fortinet
12 31 (4.697%) Blue Coat
13 29 (4.394%) Infoblox
14 26 (3.939%) Polycom
15 23 (3.485%) Red Hat
16 22 (3.333%) Twitter
17 20 (3.030%) Sourcefire
18 16 (2.424%) Foundry
19 15 (2.273%) Remedy
19 15 (2.273%) Oracle
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