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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 110 107 97
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -10
Permanent jobs citing BGP 12 1 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.655% 0.068% 0.556%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.797% 0.420% 4.306%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 3
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
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
316 238 209
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 17.24% 16.17% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 293 208 179
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
BGP
South East

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire BGP Salary Trend

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Oxford -7 12 £50,000 -
BGP
South East

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 25 (69.44%) Cisco
2 23 (63.89%) OSPF
3 22 (61.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (58.33%) LAN
5 18 (50.00%) VoIP
6 17 (47.22%) MPLS
7 15 (41.67%) VLAN
8 14 (38.89%) IPsec
8 14 (38.89%) HP
8 14 (38.89%) WAN
9 13 (36.11%) Ethernet
10 12 (33.33%) Linux
10 12 (33.33%) F5
11 11 (30.56%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (30.56%) ITIL
12 10 (27.78%) ADSL
12 10 (27.78%) PBX
12 10 (27.78%) Avaya
12 10 (27.78%) Internet
12 10 (27.78%) Mitel
12 10 (27.78%) HSRP
12 10 (27.78%) Mobile App
12 10 (27.78%) Unified Communications
12 10 (27.78%) SaaS
12 10 (27.78%) Business Development
12 10 (27.78%) VPLS
13 9 (25.00%) Business Continuity
13 9 (25.00%) BCP
13 9 (25.00%) EIGRP
13 9 (25.00%) Cisco Certification

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 1 (2.778%) XMPP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (63.89%) OSPF
2 21 (58.33%) LAN
3 18 (50.00%) VoIP
4 17 (47.22%) MPLS
5 15 (41.67%) VLAN
6 14 (38.89%) IPsec
6 14 (38.89%) WAN
7 13 (36.11%) Ethernet
8 11 (30.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 10 (27.78%) HSRP
9 10 (27.78%) PBX
9 10 (27.78%) Internet
9 10 (27.78%) VPLS
9 10 (27.78%) Unified Communications
9 10 (27.78%) ADSL
10 9 (25.00%) EIGRP
11 7 (19.44%) WLAN
12 6 (16.67%) Firewall
13 5 (13.89%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (11.11%) VRRP
General
1 2 (5.556%) Telecoms
1 2 (5.556%) Publishing
1 2 (5.556%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Network Specialist
2 11 (30.56%) Network Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 10 (27.78%) Consultant
4 7 (19.44%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (8.333%) Network Manager
5 3 (8.333%) Lead Network Engineer
6 2 (5.556%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.556%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.778%) Linux Specialist
7 1 (2.778%) Engineering Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) SaaS
1 10 (27.78%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.778%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (30.56%) ITIL
3 10 (27.78%) Business Development
4 9 (25.00%) BCP
4 9 (25.00%) Business Continuity
5 6 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 5 (13.89%) Network Design
7 4 (11.11%) Investment Management
7 4 (11.11%) Project Management
8 2 (5.556%) Service Management
8 2 (5.556%) Change Management
8 2 (5.556%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (5.556%) Incident Management
8 2 (5.556%) Load Balancing
9 1 (2.778%) Network Management
9 1 (2.778%) Risk Assessment
9 1 (2.778%) Validation
9 1 (2.778%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) CCNP
1 9 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.89%) CCIE
3 3 (8.333%) CCDA
3 3 (8.333%) CCDP
4 1 (2.778%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.778%) NFS
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Cisco
2 14 (38.89%) HP
3 12 (33.33%) F5
4 10 (27.78%) Avaya
4 10 (27.78%) Mitel
5 8 (22.22%) Juniper
6 3 (8.333%) Microsoft
6 3 (8.333%) VMware
6 3 (8.333%) Riverbed
7 1 (2.778%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.778%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.778%) CheckPoint
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