The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 68 79 69
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -10
Permanent jobs citing BGP 3 6 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.420% 0.643% 0.478%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.804% 3.297% 3.390%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 4
Average salary £100,000 £35,000 £67,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+185.71% -47.76%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
107 182 118
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 14.97% 19.51% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 89 145 99
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -10.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,550 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £77,000 £67,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BGP
Yorkshire

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire BGP Salary Trend

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Sheffield +5 3 £100,000 +185.71%
BGP
Yorkshire

BGP
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) SLA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) L2TP
3 1 (33.33%) VRRP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) L2TP
2 1 (33.33%) VRRP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper