The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 22 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 41 53 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Permanent jobs citing BGP 18 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.681% 0.433% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 3.704% -
Number of salaries quoted 17 1 0
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
126 54 75
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.77% 11.69% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 115 47 66
Average salary £40,000 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.45% -21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £23,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BGP
Tyne and Wear

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne BGP Salary Histogram

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 21 (100.00%) OSPF
1 21 (100.00%) Firewall
2 20 (95.24%) Cisco
3 17 (80.95%) HP
3 17 (80.95%) Red Hat
3 17 (80.95%) MySQL
3 17 (80.95%) Linux
3 17 (80.95%) Apache
3 17 (80.95%) DHCP
3 17 (80.95%) DNS
3 17 (80.95%) CentOS
4 16 (76.19%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (76.19%) LDAP
5 13 (61.90%) RHCE
6 12 (57.14%) Degree
7 10 (47.62%) Internet
8 9 (42.86%) Wireless
8 9 (42.86%) Telecoms
9 8 (38.10%) Nagios
9 8 (38.10%) SAN
9 8 (38.10%) Citrix
9 8 (38.10%) VPN
9 8 (38.10%) XenServer
10 7 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (28.57%) CCNP
11 6 (28.57%) MS Visio
11 6 (28.57%) Identity Management
11 6 (28.57%) Validation
12 5 (23.81%) CCNA
13 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 17 (80.95%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) OSPF
1 21 (100.00%) Firewall
2 17 (80.95%) DHCP
2 17 (80.95%) DNS
3 16 (76.19%) LDAP
4 10 (47.62%) Internet
5 9 (42.86%) Wireless
6 8 (38.10%) SAN
6 8 (38.10%) VPN
7 4 (19.05%) LAN
7 4 (19.05%) WAN
8 3 (14.29%) HSRP
8 3 (14.29%) VLAN
8 3 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (14.29%) IPsec
9 1 (4.762%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (4.762%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (80.95%) MySQL
General
1 9 (42.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Administrator
1 14 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
2 12 (57.14%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 5 (23.81%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (19.05%) Network Technician
4 4 (19.05%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 2 (9.524%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.762%) Cisco Administrator
7 1 (4.762%) Senior Network Administrator
7 1 (4.762%) Network Administrator
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Linux
1 17 (80.95%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (28.57%) Identity Management
2 6 (28.57%) Validation
3 4 (19.05%) Change Control
3 4 (19.05%) Data Management
3 4 (19.05%) Network Design
4 2 (9.524%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) RHCE
2 12 (57.14%) Degree
3 7 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (28.57%) CCNP
5 5 (23.81%) CCNA
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) XenServer
2 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.762%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Cisco
2 17 (80.95%) HP
2 17 (80.95%) Red Hat
3 8 (38.10%) Citrix
4 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.762%) VMware