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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 94 86 87
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +1
Permanent jobs citing BGP 12 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.927% 0.391% 0.104%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.797% 2.105% 0.840%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 1
Average salary £52,500 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.25% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
207 190 119
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 15.98% 18.57% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 158 156 94
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,550 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BGP
Buckinghamshire

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

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

Milton Keynes BGP Salary Histogram

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 20 (100.00%) Cisco
1 20 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (95.00%) MPLS
2 19 (95.00%) EIGRP
3 17 (85.00%) OSPF
3 17 (85.00%) CCIE
4 16 (80.00%) CCNP
4 16 (80.00%) VPN
4 16 (80.00%) WAN
4 16 (80.00%) Network Design
5 15 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
5 15 (75.00%) CCSP
5 15 (75.00%) FWSM
6 12 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 12 (60.00%) CCDP
6 12 (60.00%) Cisco PIX
6 12 (60.00%) Network Security
6 12 (60.00%) Firewall
6 12 (60.00%) Wireless
7 10 (50.00%) Finance
8 9 (45.00%) Banking
8 9 (45.00%) Reuters
8 9 (45.00%) Bloomberg
9 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
10 6 (30.00%) SLA
11 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
12 4 (20.00%) Change Control
12 4 (20.00%) LAN
12 4 (20.00%) SSL
12 4 (20.00%) NFS

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 4 (20.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (95.00%) MPLS
1 19 (95.00%) EIGRP
2 17 (85.00%) OSPF
3 16 (80.00%) VPN
3 16 (80.00%) WAN
4 15 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
4 15 (75.00%) FWSM
5 12 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 12 (60.00%) Cisco PIX
5 12 (60.00%) Network Security
5 12 (60.00%) Firewall
5 12 (60.00%) Wireless
6 4 (20.00%) LAN
6 4 (20.00%) SSL
6 4 (20.00%) TACACS
6 4 (20.00%) DWDM
6 4 (20.00%) IPsec
6 4 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (20.00%) VLAN
7 3 (15.00%) HSRP
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (45.00%) Banking
3 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Consultant
2 8 (40.00%) Network Consultant
3 7 (35.00%) Cisco Consultant
4 6 (30.00%) Network Architect
4 6 (30.00%) Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Technical Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Network Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Technical Design Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Network Technical Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Network Design Architect
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
7 2 (10.00%) Analyst
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Network Analyst
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco Architect
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Network Design
2 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (20.00%) Change Control
4 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.000%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (85.00%) CCIE
3 16 (80.00%) CCNP
4 15 (75.00%) CCSP
5 12 (60.00%) CCDP
6 3 (15.00%) CCVP
6 3 (15.00%) CCIP
7 1 (5.000%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
2 4 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) OpenView
1 4 (20.00%) CiscoWorks
1 4 (20.00%) Netcool
2 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (45.00%) Reuters
2 9 (45.00%) Bloomberg
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 4 (20.00%) SAP
3 4 (20.00%) Infovista
3 4 (20.00%) Blue Coat
4 2 (10.00%) Twitter
4 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.000%) F5
5 1 (5.000%) Foundry
5 1 (5.000%) Juniper