The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 20 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 74 63 -
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -
Permanent jobs citing BGP 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 0.293% 0.181% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.418% 1.176% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
141 85 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 20.64% 15.34% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 133 74 75
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
BGP
East of England

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 20 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
Ipswich - 2 £42,500 -
BGP
East of England

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) XenServer
2 3 (60.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (60.00%) VBScript
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
2 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) SSL
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) IPv6
3 2 (40.00%) SNMP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) Nagios
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) ZABBIX
3 2 (40.00%) Debian

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) SSL
3 2 (40.00%) IPv6
3 2 (40.00%) SNMP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) XenServer
2 3 (60.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nagios
1 2 (40.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp