Scotland BGP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Accrington Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wembley West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	143	164
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.858 %	2.038 %
Salaries quoted	6	11
Average minimum salary	£41,333	£38,545
Average salary	£46,833	£42,491
% change on same period last year	+10.21 %
Average maximum salary	£52,333	£46,436
UK excluding London average salary	£43,444	£43,704
% change on same period last year	-0.59 %
Communications & Networking Scotland
Matching permanent IT job ads	592	785
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.319 %	0.327 %
Salaries quoted	437	517
Average minimum salary	£37,768	£33,350
Average salary	£40,900	£36,244
% change on same period last year	+12.84 %
Average maximum salary	£44,032	£39,138
UK excluding London average salary	£37,579	£39,546
% change on same period last year	-4.97 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing BGP across the Scotland 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 citing BGP across the Scotland region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Edinburgh	+17	7	£44,200	-1.77 %
Glasgow	+6	1	-	-
Aberdeen	-4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 24 (100.00 %) OSPF 2 20 (83.33 %) Cisco 3 15 (62.50 %) Cisco Certification 3 15 (62.50 %) WAN 4 12 (50.00 %) LAN 4 12 (50.00 %) Firewall 5 11 (45.83 %) MPLS 5 11 (45.83 %) TCP/IP 5 11 (45.83 %) CCIE 6 10 (41.67 %) CCNP 6 10 (41.67 %) VPN 6 10 (41.67 %) CheckPoint 7 8 (33.33 %) EIGRP 7 8 (33.33 %) IPsec 7 8 (33.33 %) Telecoms

8 7 (29.17 %) Finance 9 6 (25.00 %) Blue Coat 9 6 (25.00 %) SSL 9 6 (25.00 %) CCSP 9 6 (25.00 %) Juniper 9 6 (25.00 %) Network Security 10 5 (20.83 %) Cisco ASA 10 5 (20.83 %) CISSP 10 5 (20.83 %) VoIP 10 5 (20.83 %) Ethernet 10 5 (20.83 %) RIP 11 4 (16.67 %) ISDN 11 4 (16.67 %) ITIL 11 4 (16.67 %) ADSL 12 3 (12.50 %) ATM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 24 (100.00 %) OSPF 2 15 (62.50 %) WAN 3 12 (50.00 %) LAN 3 12 (50.00 %) Firewall 4 11 (45.83 %) MPLS 4 11 (45.83 %) TCP/IP 5 10 (41.67 %) VPN 6 8 (33.33 %) EIGRP 6 8 (33.33 %) IPsec 7 6 (25.00 %) Network Security 7 6 (25.00 %) SSL 8 5 (20.83 %) Ethernet 8 5 (20.83 %) RIP 8 5 (20.83 %) VoIP 8 5 (20.83 %) Cisco ASA 9 4 (16.67 %) ISDN 9 4 (16.67 %) ADSL 10 3 (12.50 %) ATM 10 3 (12.50 %) SONET 10 3 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX
General 1 8 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 7 (29.17 %) Finance 3 2 (8.333 %) Health 3 2 (8.333 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 8 (33.33 %) Network Consultant 1 8 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 5 (20.83 %) Network Engineer 2 5 (20.83 %) Security Consultant 2 5 (20.83 %) Network Security Consultant 3 4 (16.67 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 3 (12.50 %) Team Leader 4 3 (12.50 %) Technical Team Leader 5 2 (8.333 %) Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Network Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Data Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Network Designer 6 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Engineer 6 1 (4.167 %) Technical Lead 6 1 (4.167 %) Firewall Engineer
Operating Systems 1 2 (8.333 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) ITIL 2 2 (8.333 %) Change Management 2 2 (8.333 %) Network Design 3 1 (4.167 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (4.167 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (8.333 %) Java	Qualifications 1 15 (62.50 %) Cisco Certification 2 11 (45.83 %) CCIE 3 10 (41.67 %) CCNP 4 6 (25.00 %) CCSP 5 5 (20.83 %) CISSP 6 3 (12.50 %) Degree 7 2 (8.333 %) CCSE 7 2 (8.333 %) CCIP 8 1 (4.167 %) CCNA 8 1 (4.167 %) CCDP 8 1 (4.167 %) ITIL Certification 8 1 (4.167 %) CCSA 8 1 (4.167 %) CCDE
System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory 1 2 (8.333 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 20 (83.33 %) Cisco 2 10 (41.67 %) CheckPoint 3 6 (25.00 %) Blue Coat 3 6 (25.00 %) Juniper 4 2 (8.333 %) Nokia 4 2 (8.333 %) Sun 4 2 (8.333 %) Sourcefire