The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 69 62 67
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +5
Permanent jobs citing BGP 12 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.183% 0.156% 0.876%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.843% 1.205% 5.983%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 2
Average salary £50,000 - £45,150
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
153 83 117
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 15.09% 12.93% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 148 59 94
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -15.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £20,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,300 £52,000 £51,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
BGP
Oxfordshire

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (67.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (64.52%) Cisco
3 18 (58.06%) OSPF
4 17 (54.84%) LAN
5 16 (51.61%) VoIP
5 16 (51.61%) MPLS
6 13 (41.94%) VLAN
6 13 (41.94%) HP
7 12 (38.71%) Ethernet
7 12 (38.71%) IPsec
8 11 (35.48%) Linux
9 10 (32.26%) ADSL
9 10 (32.26%) PBX
9 10 (32.26%) WAN
9 10 (32.26%) ITIL
9 10 (32.26%) Avaya
9 10 (32.26%) Internet
9 10 (32.26%) Mitel
9 10 (32.26%) Business Development
9 10 (32.26%) VPLS
9 10 (32.26%) SaaS
9 10 (32.26%) Unified Communications
9 10 (32.26%) HSRP
9 10 (32.26%) Mobile App
10 8 (25.81%) F5
10 8 (25.81%) Business Continuity
10 8 (25.81%) BCP
11 7 (22.58%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (19.35%) Problem Management
12 6 (19.35%) Juniper

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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.

Communications & Networking
1 18 (58.06%) OSPF
2 17 (54.84%) LAN
3 16 (51.61%) VoIP
3 16 (51.61%) MPLS
4 13 (41.94%) VLAN
5 12 (38.71%) IPsec
5 12 (38.71%) Ethernet
6 10 (32.26%) WAN
6 10 (32.26%) PBX
6 10 (32.26%) Internet
6 10 (32.26%) ADSL
6 10 (32.26%) VPLS
6 10 (32.26%) Unified Communications
6 10 (32.26%) HSRP
7 7 (22.58%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (16.13%) EIGRP
9 4 (12.90%) VRRP
9 4 (12.90%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (12.90%) BIG-IP
10 3 (9.677%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (6.452%) Publishing
2 1 (3.226%) Multimedia
2 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Network Specialist
2 10 (32.26%) Pre Sales Consultant
2 10 (32.26%) Consultant
3 7 (22.58%) Network Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (9.677%) Network Manager
6 1 (3.226%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (3.226%) Linux Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) SaaS
1 10 (32.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (32.26%) ITIL
2 10 (32.26%) Business Development
3 8 (25.81%) BCP
3 8 (25.81%) Business Continuity
4 6 (19.35%) Problem Management
5 4 (12.90%) Investment Management
5 4 (12.90%) Network Design
5 4 (12.90%) Project Management
6 2 (6.452%) Service Management
6 2 (6.452%) Change Management
6 2 (6.452%) Incident Management
6 2 (6.452%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (3.226%) Network Management
7 1 (3.226%) Load Balancing
7 1 (3.226%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) CCNP
1 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.452%) CCIE
3 1 (3.226%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (9.677%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Cisco
2 13 (41.94%) HP
3 10 (32.26%) Avaya
3 10 (32.26%) Mitel
4 8 (25.81%) F5
5 6 (19.35%) Juniper
6 3 (9.677%) VMware
6 3 (9.677%) Riverbed
7 1 (3.226%) Blue Coat
7 1 (3.226%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.226%) CheckPoint
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