Reading RIP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Routing Information Protocol (RIP) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RIP over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bradford Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dundee Dunstable East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ilkley Keighley Kent Kettering Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough Manchester Midlands Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Reading Romsey Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	140	129
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.175 %	0.828 %
Salaries quoted	9	6
Average minimum salary	£49,444	£50,333
Average salary	£49,833	£50,333
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
Average maximum salary	£50,222	£50,333
UK excluding London average salary	£43,395	£40,347
% change on same period last year	+7.55 %
Communications & Networking Reading
Matching permanent IT job ads	851	725
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.417 %	0.321 %
Salaries quoted	741	545
Average minimum salary	£39,655	£38,798
Average salary	£42,141	£41,778
% change on same period last year	+0.86 %
Average maximum salary	£44,627	£44,757
UK excluding London average salary	£37,693	£39,086
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
RIP Berkshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing RIP across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing RIP across the Reading region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RIP across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Reading region citing RIP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing RIP.

1 22 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 22 (100.00 %) OSPF 2 20 (90.91 %) WAN 3 18 (81.82 %) LAN 3 18 (81.82 %) CCNP 3 18 (81.82 %) Cisco Certification 4 17 (77.27 %) VPN 4 17 (77.27 %) Firewall 5 16 (72.73 %) CCNA 6 15 (68.18 %) TCP/IP 7 14 (63.64 %) CCIP 7 14 (63.64 %) Juniper 8 13 (59.09 %) CheckPoint 9 12 (54.55 %) CCDP 10 11 (50.00 %) BGP

11 10 (45.45 %) Microsoft 12 9 (40.91 %) Unix 12 9 (40.91 %) EIGRP 12 9 (40.91 %) MPLS 12 9 (40.91 %) Health 12 9 (40.91 %) BIG-IP 12 9 (40.91 %) Pensions 13 7 (31.82 %) VMware 13 7 (31.82 %) Solaris 13 7 (31.82 %) Linux 14 6 (27.27 %) CSS 14 6 (27.27 %) ISDN 14 6 (27.27 %) SSL 15 4 (18.18 %) DWDM 15 4 (18.18 %) Ethernet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Reading region citing RIP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing RIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (27.27 %) CSS	Communications & Networking 1 22 (100.00 %) OSPF 2 20 (90.91 %) WAN 3 18 (81.82 %) LAN 4 17 (77.27 %) VPN 4 17 (77.27 %) Firewall 5 15 (68.18 %) TCP/IP 6 11 (50.00 %) BGP 7 9 (40.91 %) EIGRP 7 9 (40.91 %) BIG-IP 7 9 (40.91 %) MPLS 8 6 (27.27 %) SSL 8 6 (27.27 %) ISDN 9 4 (18.18 %) ATM 9 4 (18.18 %) Ethernet 9 4 (18.18 %) DWDM 9 4 (18.18 %) Frame Relay 9 4 (18.18 %) IPsec 10 3 (13.64 %) H.323 10 3 (13.64 %) VLAN 10 3 (13.64 %) VoIP
General 1 9 (40.91 %) Health 1 9 (40.91 %) Pensions 2 4 (18.18 %) Finance 3 2 (9.091 %) Government 4 1 (4.545 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 19 (86.36 %) Network Engineer 2 8 (36.36 %) Network Specialist 3 4 (18.18 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 3 (13.64 %) Senior Network Specialist 5 2 (9.091 %) Technical Specialist 5 2 (9.091 %) Cisco Engineer 5 2 (9.091 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 1 (4.545 %) Network Architect 6 1 (4.545 %) Architect 6 1 (4.545 %) Consultant 6 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft Consultant 6 1 (4.545 %) Senior Cisco Engineer 6 1 (4.545 %) Senior Network Architect 6 1 (4.545 %) Network Support 6 1 (4.545 %) Network Designer 6 1 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (4.545 %) 3rd Line Support 6 1 (4.545 %) Network Support Engineer 6 1 (4.545 %) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Operating Systems 1 9 (40.91 %) Unix 2 7 (31.82 %) Solaris 2 7 (31.82 %) Linux 3 2 (9.091 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (13.64 %) Network Design 2 2 (9.091 %) Communications Security
Qualifications 1 18 (81.82 %) CCNP 1 18 (81.82 %) Cisco Certification 2 16 (72.73 %) CCNA 3 14 (63.64 %) CCIP 4 12 (54.55 %) CCDP 5 3 (13.64 %) CCIE 5 3 (13.64 %) JNCIA 6 1 (4.545 %) CCDA	Vendors 1 22 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 14 (63.64 %) Juniper 3 13 (59.09 %) CheckPoint 4 10 (45.45 %) Microsoft 5 7 (31.82 %) VMware 6 2 (9.091 %) HP 6 2 (9.091 %) Nokia