The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 24 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 181 164 159
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -5
Permanent jobs citing BGP 11 9 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.269% 0.248% 0.278%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.903% 1.515% 2.022%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 11
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +58.33%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
578 594 544
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.11% 16.39% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 486 524 477
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £75,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BGP
North West

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester BGP Salary Histogram

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 23 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (95.65%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (95.65%) MPLS
3 21 (91.30%) Firewall
4 18 (78.26%) CCNP
5 14 (60.87%) OSPF
6 12 (52.17%) Telecoms
7 10 (43.48%) CCIE
8 9 (39.13%) RIP
9 8 (34.78%) CCSP
10 6 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (21.74%) Cisco PIX
11 5 (21.74%) Network Security
11 5 (21.74%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (21.74%) EIGRP
11 5 (21.74%) Juniper
11 5 (21.74%) WAN
12 4 (17.39%) VPN
12 4 (17.39%) CheckPoint
12 4 (17.39%) CCIP
12 4 (17.39%) CCNA
12 4 (17.39%) CCDP
12 4 (17.39%) F5
12 4 (17.39%) FWSM
12 4 (17.39%) CCDE
12 4 (17.39%) Network Design
12 4 (17.39%) Wireless
13 3 (13.04%) Migration
13 3 (13.04%) Redback
13 3 (13.04%) VoIP

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (4.348%) IIS
1 1 (4.348%) Apache
1 1 (4.348%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.348%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 22 (95.65%) MPLS
2 21 (91.30%) Firewall
3 14 (60.87%) OSPF
4 9 (39.13%) RIP
5 6 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (21.74%) Cisco PIX
6 5 (21.74%) Network Security
6 5 (21.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (21.74%) EIGRP
6 5 (21.74%) WAN
7 4 (17.39%) VPN
7 4 (17.39%) FWSM
7 4 (17.39%) Wireless
8 3 (13.04%) VoIP
8 3 (13.04%) IPv6
8 3 (13.04%) Ethernet
9 1 (4.348%) FTP
9 1 (4.348%) SMTP
9 1 (4.348%) DNS
9 1 (4.348%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) MySQL
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (52.17%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Legal
2 1 (4.348%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Network Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Senior Network Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Data Centre Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (13.04%) IP Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior IP Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.348%) Windows
1 1 (4.348%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Network Design
2 3 (13.04%) Migration
Qualifications
1 22 (95.65%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (78.26%) CCNP
3 10 (43.48%) CCIE
4 8 (34.78%) CCSP
5 4 (17.39%) CCIP
5 4 (17.39%) CCNA
5 4 (17.39%) CCDP
5 4 (17.39%) CCDE
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.348%) Xen
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (21.74%) Juniper
3 4 (17.39%) CheckPoint
3 4 (17.39%) F5
4 3 (13.04%) Redback
5 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.348%) HP
5 1 (4.348%) Dell
5 1 (4.348%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.348%) VMware