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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 58 46 56
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +10
Permanent jobs citing BGP 14 24 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 2.047% 3.604% 0.210%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.459% 9.524% 0.901%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 1
Average salary £52,500 £42,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.52% -22.72%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
148 252 111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 21.64% 37.84% 23.27%
Number of salaries quoted 129 180 64
Average salary £47,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.58% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
BGP
Berkshire

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Slough region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Slough BGP Salary Histogram

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 18 (100.00%) OSPF
2 16 (88.89%) MPLS
3 15 (83.33%) Cisco
3 15 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (77.78%) Juniper
4 14 (77.78%) IPsec
5 13 (72.22%) CCNP
5 13 (72.22%) CCIP
5 13 (72.22%) CCIE
6 11 (61.11%) JNCIA
6 11 (61.11%) Network Security
7 9 (50.00%) JNCIS
7 9 (50.00%) JNCIP
7 9 (50.00%) JNCIE
7 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
8 5 (27.78%) Firewall
8 5 (27.78%) LAN
8 5 (27.78%) WAN
9 4 (22.22%) IPv4
9 4 (22.22%) IPv6
9 4 (22.22%) Network Architecture
9 4 (22.22%) Network Design
10 3 (16.67%) VLAN
10 3 (16.67%) VPLS
10 3 (16.67%) Network Management
10 3 (16.67%) HSRP
10 3 (16.67%) Blue Coat
10 3 (16.67%) VRRP
10 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
10 3 (16.67%) SNMP

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 (100.00%) OSPF
2 16 (88.89%) MPLS
3 14 (77.78%) IPsec
4 11 (61.11%) Network Security
5 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (27.78%) LAN
6 5 (27.78%) WAN
6 5 (27.78%) Firewall
7 4 (22.22%) IPv4
7 4 (22.22%) IPv6
8 3 (16.67%) VRRP
8 3 (16.67%) SNMP
8 3 (16.67%) DNS
8 3 (16.67%) HSRP
8 3 (16.67%) VLAN
8 3 (16.67%) VPLS
9 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (11.11%) SSL
9 2 (11.11%) VPN
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Technical Design Authority
2 6 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Team Leader
3 4 (22.22%) IP Network Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Network Team Leader
3 4 (22.22%) IP Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Pre Sales Consultant
5 1 (5.556%) Sales Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Network Design
1 4 (22.22%) Network Architecture
2 3 (16.67%) Network Management
3 2 (11.11%) Change Management
3 2 (11.11%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (72.22%) CCIE
2 13 (72.22%) CCNP
2 13 (72.22%) CCIP
3 11 (61.11%) JNCIA
4 9 (50.00%) JNCIS
4 9 (50.00%) JNCIP
4 9 (50.00%) JNCIE
5 2 (11.11%) CCNA
5 2 (11.11%) CCSP
5 2 (11.11%) CCSA
5 2 (11.11%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Cisco
2 14 (77.78%) Juniper
3 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 3 (16.67%) Blue Coat
4 2 (11.11%) Avaya
4 2 (11.11%) Twitter
5 1 (5.556%) F5
Slough, Berkshire
Role: Maintaining and monitoring the Network, including firewalls, VPNs and Avaya based VoIP... Use of Incident and Change management tools (ServiceNOW) Cisco equipment configuration skills including ASA, and...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £45,000 per annum + 10% Bonus + 7% On-Call + Full Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013