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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 49 - 53
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing BGP 16 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 2.512% - 0.419%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.49% - 3.704%
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 2
Average salary £45,000 - £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
97 46 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 15.23% 10.43% 11.32%
Number of salaries quoted 87 44 50
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £60,250 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
BGP
South West

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

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

Somerset BGP Salary Histogram

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 Somerset 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
Shepton Mallet - 3 £40,000 -
Bridgwater - 1 £45,000 -
BGP
South West

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 28 (96.55%) MPLS
2 26 (89.66%) VPN
2 26 (89.66%) Cisco
3 25 (86.21%) OSPF
4 24 (82.76%) IPsec
4 24 (82.76%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (79.31%) CCNA
5 23 (79.31%) ISDN
6 20 (68.97%) ADSL
6 20 (68.97%) EIGRP
7 19 (65.52%) 3G
7 19 (65.52%) WAN
8 18 (62.07%) Ethernet
9 16 (55.17%) Internet
9 16 (55.17%) CCNP
10 15 (51.72%) ITIL
11 14 (48.28%) SDH
12 13 (44.83%) TCP/IP
12 13 (44.83%) Firewall
13 12 (41.38%) SHDSL
13 12 (41.38%) xDSL
14 11 (37.93%) Performance Management
14 11 (37.93%) Change Management
14 11 (37.93%) CCIP
15 10 (34.48%) DNS
15 10 (34.48%) Ericsson
15 10 (34.48%) L2TP
15 10 (34.48%) Redback
15 10 (34.48%) VLAN
15 10 (34.48%) Problem Management

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 3 (10.34%) MS Office
2 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (96.55%) MPLS
2 26 (89.66%) VPN
3 25 (86.21%) OSPF
4 24 (82.76%) IPsec
5 23 (79.31%) ISDN
6 20 (68.97%) ADSL
6 20 (68.97%) EIGRP
7 19 (65.52%) WAN
7 19 (65.52%) 3G
8 18 (62.07%) Ethernet
9 16 (55.17%) Internet
10 14 (48.28%) SDH
11 13 (44.83%) TCP/IP
11 13 (44.83%) Firewall
12 12 (41.38%) SHDSL
12 12 (41.38%) xDSL
13 10 (34.48%) VLAN
13 10 (34.48%) L2TP
13 10 (34.48%) DNS
14 9 (31.03%) PPP
General
1 7 (24.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Network Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Team Leader
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Network Operations Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) NOC Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Implementation Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Technical Manager
5 2 (6.897%) IP Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Customer Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Operations Manager
5 2 (6.897%) Technical Operations Manager
6 1 (3.448%) Technical Trainer
6 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.448%) Trainer
6 1 (3.448%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.448%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.448%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) UNIX
2 2 (6.897%) Linux
3 1 (3.448%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) ITIL
2 11 (37.93%) Change Management
2 11 (37.93%) Performance Management
3 10 (34.48%) Problem Management
4 8 (27.59%) Fault Management
5 4 (13.79%) Network Management
6 3 (10.34%) Validation
6 3 (10.34%) CRM
6 3 (10.34%) Process Management
7 2 (6.897%) Incident Management
7 2 (6.897%) Change Control
8 1 (3.448%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (3.448%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (3.448%) Time Management
8 1 (3.448%) Data Protection
Qualifications
1 24 (82.76%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (79.31%) CCNA
3 16 (55.17%) CCNP
4 11 (37.93%) CCIP
5 4 (13.79%) CCDP
5 4 (13.79%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.448%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) SLA
2 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 26 (89.66%) Cisco
2 10 (34.48%) Ericsson
2 10 (34.48%) Redback
3 7 (24.14%) Juniper
3 7 (24.14%) CheckPoint
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) Foundry
5 1 (3.448%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.448%) VMware
Somerset, South West
This includes MPLS VPN, IP Access and associated overlay services, such as Application Performance Management (APM), and IPSec VPN, delivered over xDSL, EFM (copper and fibre), Leased Line,...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £35K + 5% bonus + 20% shift allowance
Posted: 14 May 2013
Somerset, South West
This includes MPLS VPN, IP Access and associated overlay services, such as Application Performance Management (APM), and IPSec VPN, delivered over xDSL, EFM (copper and fibre), Leased Line,...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £62k + 5% bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013