The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 22 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 195 194 251
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +57
Permanent jobs citing BGP 284 286 185
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 1.279% 1.185% 0.822%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.399% 5.395% 4.378%
Number of salaries quoted 218 247 172
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £33,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £59,500 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5260 5301 4226
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 23.68% 21.97% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4220 4497 3526
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BGP
England

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East BGP Salary Trend

BGP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Berkshire +22 131 £47,500 +7.95%
Hampshire +19 48 £38,500 -23.00%
Surrey -28 48 £45,000 -
Buckinghamshire +3 30 £37,500 -25.00%
West Sussex +2 13 £42,500 +21.42%
Oxfordshire -4 12 £50,000 -
Kent -17 4 £45,000 +38.46%
East Sussex -19 2 £32,000 -39.04%
BGP
England

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 467 (90.33%) Cisco
2 395 (76.40%) OSPF
3 341 (65.96%) Cisco Certification
4 323 (62.48%) MPLS
5 244 (47.20%) CCNP
6 223 (43.13%) Juniper
7 222 (42.94%) Firewall
8 218 (42.17%) WAN
9 215 (41.59%) TCP/IP
10 186 (35.98%) VPN
11 177 (34.24%) LAN
12 163 (31.53%) CCIE
13 161 (31.14%) Cisco ASA
14 151 (29.21%) CCNA
15 149 (28.82%) IPsec
16 145 (28.05%) EIGRP
17 126 (24.37%) Ethernet
18 124 (23.98%) Linux
19 123 (23.79%) VoIP
20 115 (22.24%) Wireless
21 112 (21.66%) CheckPoint
22 108 (20.89%) Network Security
23 106 (20.50%) DNS
23 106 (20.50%) Telecoms
24 98 (18.96%) CCIP
25 89 (17.21%) Network Design
26 88 (17.02%) Cisco Nexus
27 85 (16.44%) VLAN
27 85 (16.44%) JNCIA
28 73 (14.12%) ITIL

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 14 (2.708%) CSS
2 9 (1.741%) WebSphere
3 5 (0.967%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.580%) CGI
5 2 (0.387%) Web Services
6 1 (0.193%) XMPP
6 1 (0.193%) HTML5
6 1 (0.193%) SOAP
6 1 (0.193%) CORBA
6 1 (0.193%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (1.741%) IBM Connections
1 9 (1.741%) Lotus Notes
1 9 (1.741%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (1.161%) Apache
3 3 (0.580%) Lync
4 1 (0.193%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (3.675%) MS Excel
2 4 (0.774%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 395 (76.40%) OSPF
2 323 (62.48%) MPLS
3 222 (42.94%) Firewall
4 218 (42.17%) WAN
5 215 (41.59%) TCP/IP
6 186 (35.98%) VPN
7 177 (34.24%) LAN
8 161 (31.14%) Cisco ASA
9 149 (28.82%) IPsec
10 145 (28.05%) EIGRP
11 126 (24.37%) Ethernet
12 123 (23.79%) VoIP
13 115 (22.24%) Wireless
14 108 (20.89%) Network Security
15 106 (20.50%) DNS
16 88 (17.02%) Cisco Nexus
17 85 (16.44%) VLAN
18 69 (13.35%) SNMP
19 67 (12.96%) SSL
20 65 (12.57%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.161%) MySQL
2 2 (0.387%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.193%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (1.934%) Subversion
2 9 (1.741%) Git (software)
General
1 106 (20.50%) Telecoms
2 35 (6.770%) Finance
3 12 (2.321%) Banking
4 11 (2.128%) Back Office
5 9 (1.741%) Retail
6 6 (1.161%) Billing
7 5 (0.967%) Advertising
8 4 (0.774%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.580%) French Language
9 3 (0.580%) Games
10 2 (0.387%) Publishing
10 2 (0.387%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.193%) Marketing
11 1 (0.193%) Electronics
11 1 (0.193%) Legal
Job Titles
1 220 (42.55%) Network Engineer
2 75 (14.51%) Consultant
3 65 (12.57%) IP Engineer
4 43 (8.317%) Senior Network Engineer
5 39 (7.544%) Network Analyst
5 39 (7.544%) Analyst
6 38 (7.350%) IP Network Engineer
7 36 (6.963%) Pre Sales Consultant
8 33 (6.383%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 33 (6.383%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
9 31 (5.996%) Support Engineer
9 31 (5.996%) Network Consultant
10 29 (5.609%) Technical Design Authority
11 27 (5.222%) Network Specialist
12 24 (4.642%) Network Support
12 24 (4.642%) Sales Consultant
13 22 (4.255%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 21 (4.062%) Team Leader
14 21 (4.062%) Network Team Leader
14 21 (4.062%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.868%) SecurID
2 16 (3.095%) SaaS
3 14 (2.708%) Open Source
4 11 (2.128%) Computer Science
5 10 (1.934%) Digital Media
5 10 (1.934%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.741%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (1.741%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.741%) IVR
7 5 (0.967%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.774%) CCTV
9 3 (0.580%) Web 2.0
10 2 (0.387%) Thin Client
10 2 (0.387%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.387%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.193%) Economics
11 1 (0.193%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 124 (23.98%) Linux
2 67 (12.96%) Windows
3 45 (8.704%) UNIX
4 14 (2.708%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (2.708%) Windows Server 2008
5 13 (2.515%) CentOS
6 8 (1.547%) Debian
6 8 (1.547%) OpenBSD
7 5 (0.967%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.774%) Solaris
9 1 (0.193%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.193%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.193%) SUSE
9 1 (0.193%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (17.21%) Network Design
2 73 (14.12%) ITIL
3 46 (8.897%) Network Management
4 44 (8.511%) Load Balancing
5 37 (7.157%) Service Delivery
6 27 (5.222%) Performance Management
7 23 (4.449%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (3.868%) Network Architecture
9 16 (3.095%) Project Management
10 12 (2.321%) Change Management
11 11 (2.128%) Problem Management
12 10 (1.934%) Service Management
12 10 (1.934%) Business Development
13 9 (1.741%) Mobile Device Management
13 9 (1.741%) Business Continuity
13 9 (1.741%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (1.741%) BCP
14 8 (1.547%) Validation
14 8 (1.547%) Time Management
14 8 (1.547%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (6.963%) Perl
2 23 (4.449%) Python
3 19 (3.675%) Bash shell
4 11 (2.128%) Ruby
5 10 (1.934%) SQL
6 9 (1.741%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.547%) PHP
8 3 (0.580%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.387%) Java
9 2 (0.387%) Bourne shell
9 2 (0.387%) Korn
Qualifications
1 341 (65.96%) Cisco Certification
2 244 (47.20%) CCNP
3 163 (31.53%) CCIE
4 151 (29.21%) CCNA
5 98 (18.96%) CCIP
6 85 (16.44%) JNCIA
7 66 (12.77%) JNCIP
8 42 (8.124%) JNCIS
9 39 (7.544%) JNCIE
10 38 (7.350%) CCDP
11 37 (7.157%) Degree
12 36 (6.963%) CCSP
13 25 (4.836%) Security Cleared
14 17 (3.288%) CCDA
15 11 (2.128%) SC Cleared
15 11 (2.128%) DV Cleared
16 10 (1.934%) RHCE
17 6 (1.161%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (1.161%) MCSE
17 6 (1.161%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.157%) PCI DSS
2 30 (5.803%) SLA
3 15 (2.901%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (1.161%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.774%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 35 (6.770%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (2.901%) vSphere
3 13 (2.515%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.321%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.354%) ProxySG
6 6 (1.161%) NFS
7 3 (0.580%) FreeRADIUS
8 2 (0.387%) Xen
9 1 (0.193%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.193%) Snort
Systems Management
1 34 (6.576%) CiscoWorks
2 16 (3.095%) OpenView
3 14 (2.708%) Netcool
3 14 (2.708%) Cisco IPCC
4 12 (2.321%) HP NNM
4 12 (2.321%) Cacti
5 11 (2.128%) Puppet
6 9 (1.741%) WSUS
6 9 (1.741%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 9 (1.741%) Nagios
7 4 (0.774%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (0.580%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.387%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.193%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 467 (90.33%) Cisco
2 223 (43.13%) Juniper
3 112 (21.66%) CheckPoint
4 64 (12.38%) F5
5 52 (10.06%) VMware
6 34 (6.576%) Avaya
7 30 (5.803%) Microsoft
8 29 (5.609%) HP
9 21 (4.062%) Blue Coat
10 18 (3.482%) Mitel
11 16 (3.095%) Infoblox
12 14 (2.708%) Nortel
12 14 (2.708%) Redback
12 14 (2.708%) Riverbed
13 13 (2.515%) Imperva
14 12 (2.321%) CA
15 11 (2.128%) Huawei
15 11 (2.128%) BT
15 11 (2.128%) Red Hat
16 10 (1.934%) IBM
Kent
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