The first table below looks at the demand for RIP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RIP over the 3 months to 17 June 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.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Rank 775 723 781
Rank change year-on-year
-52 +58
Permanent jobs citing RIP 106 162 109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.096% 0.135% 0.086%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.503% 0.772% 0.532%
Number of salaries quoted 94 147 92
Average salary £48,750 £42,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.70% -22.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,150 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+26.66% +15.38%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21092 20995 20500
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.07% 17.45% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17100 17382 16978
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

RIP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RIP Jobs Demand Trend

RIP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RIP within the UK.

RIP Salary Trend

RIP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RIP over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 within the UK.

RIP Salary Histogram

RIP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RIP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -29 95 £50,000 +17.64% 10
London -6 42 £50,000 +8.10% 4
Yorkshire -6 22 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Harrogate +11 17 £50,000 +5.26% 2
North Yorkshire 0 17 £50,000 +11.11% 2
South East -4 13 £42,500 +13.33% 1
South Wales - 9 £32,500 -
Wales - 9 £32,500 -
Cardiff - 9 £32,500 -
Berkshire -3 7 £40,000 -33.33% 1
North West -6 7 £47,500 +18.75% 2
Manchester -2 6 £47,500 +15.15% 2
Newcastle upon Tyne - 4 - -
Tyne and Wear - 4 - -
North East - 4 - -
Surrey +5 3 £55,000 +12.82%
East of England 0 3 £60,000 +100.00%
West Yorkshire -4 3 £50,000 +42.85% 1
Leeds -9 3 £50,000 +42.85% 1
City of London -14 3 £30,000 -53.84% 2
Middlesex - 3 £42,500 -
Reading - 3 - -
Staines - 3 £55,000 -
Bedfordshire -8 2 £60,000 +22.44%
Dunstable -13 2 £60,000 +22.44%
Swindon - 2 £60,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £44,750 -
Wiltshire - 2 £60,000 -
South West - 2 £60,000 -
Cheshire +9 1 - -

RIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RIP 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 RIP.

1 143 (84.12%) Cisco
2 126 (74.12%) Cisco Certification
3 125 (73.53%) OSPF
4 123 (72.35%) BGP
5 105 (61.76%) CCNP
6 103 (60.59%) Firewall
7 98 (57.65%) MPLS
8 74 (43.53%) TCP/IP
9 69 (40.59%) WAN
10 68 (40.00%) Juniper
11 67 (39.41%) EIGRP
11 67 (39.41%) VPN
12 55 (32.35%) LAN
13 54 (31.76%) CCNA
14 50 (29.41%) Windows
15 46 (27.06%) Ethernet
16 45 (26.47%) CheckPoint
17 43 (25.29%) SSL
18 42 (24.71%) Microsoft
19 41 (24.12%) Finance
20 40 (23.53%) Telecoms
21 38 (22.35%) VoIP
22 37 (21.76%) DNS
22 37 (21.76%) Network Management
23 35 (20.59%) UNIX
24 33 (19.41%) Network Design
25 32 (18.82%) Network Security
25 32 (18.82%) DHCP
26 31 (18.24%) MS Excel
27 30 (17.65%) SLA

RIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RIP 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 RIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (4.706%) CSS
2 7 (4.118%) .NET
3 3 (1.765%) HTML
3 3 (1.765%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 12 (7.059%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 10 (5.882%) Lync
3 3 (1.765%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (1.765%) MS Exchange
4 2 (1.176%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (1.176%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (1.176%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.588%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.588%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 31 (18.24%) MS Excel
2 8 (4.706%) MS Visio
2 8 (4.706%) MS Office
3 5 (2.941%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.353%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.765%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.588%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.588%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.588%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 125 (73.53%) OSPF
2 123 (72.35%) BGP
3 103 (60.59%) Firewall
4 98 (57.65%) MPLS
5 74 (43.53%) TCP/IP
6 69 (40.59%) WAN
7 67 (39.41%) VPN
7 67 (39.41%) EIGRP
8 55 (32.35%) LAN
9 46 (27.06%) Ethernet
10 43 (25.29%) SSL
11 38 (22.35%) VoIP
12 37 (21.76%) DNS
13 32 (18.82%) DHCP
13 32 (18.82%) Network Security
14 30 (17.65%) Cisco IOS
15 29 (17.06%) Frame Relay
15 29 (17.06%) SNMP
16 28 (16.47%) VRRP
17 25 (14.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.176%) Cognos Impromptu
2 1 (0.588%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (0.588%) SQL Server
General
1 41 (24.12%) Finance
2 40 (23.53%) Telecoms
3 7 (4.118%) Retail
4 5 (2.941%) Marketing
4 5 (2.941%) Banking
5 4 (2.353%) Games
6 2 (1.176%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.588%) Advertising
7 1 (0.588%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.588%) Legal
Job Titles
1 83 (48.82%) Network Engineer
2 17 (10.00%) Network Support
2 17 (10.00%) Network Specialist
3 16 (9.412%) Cisco Engineer
4 15 (8.824%) Senior Network Specialist
5 14 (8.235%) Support Engineer
6 13 (7.647%) Network Support Engineer
7 12 (7.059%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 11 (6.471%) Senior Network Engineer
9 9 (5.294%) Consultant
9 9 (5.294%) Developer
9 9 (5.294%) Security Engineer
9 9 (5.294%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 8 (4.706%) Security Officer
10 8 (4.706%) Network Administrator
10 8 (4.706%) Administrator
11 7 (4.118%) Team Leader
11 7 (4.118%) Network Team Leader
11 7 (4.118%) IT Administrator
12 5 (2.941%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.882%) SecurID
2 9 (5.294%) Blog
3 7 (4.118%) Computer Science
4 5 (2.941%) Digital Media
5 4 (2.353%) IPTV
5 4 (2.353%) Streaming Video
6 3 (1.765%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.765%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.176%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.176%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.588%) Handset
8 1 (0.588%) Replication
8 1 (0.588%) Clustering
8 1 (0.588%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 50 (29.41%) Windows
2 35 (20.59%) UNIX
3 16 (9.412%) Linux
4 7 (4.118%) Windows Phone
5 3 (1.765%) Solaris
6 2 (1.176%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.176%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.588%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.588%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.76%) Network Management
2 33 (19.41%) Network Design
3 26 (15.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (12.35%) Change Management
5 20 (11.76%) ITIL
6 16 (9.412%) Project Management
7 11 (6.471%) Service Delivery
8 10 (5.882%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 8 (4.706%) Incident Management
9 8 (4.706%) Capacity Planning
10 7 (4.118%) Scrum
11 6 (3.529%) B2B
12 5 (2.941%) PRINCE2
12 5 (2.941%) Requirements Management
12 5 (2.941%) Penetration Testing
12 5 (2.941%) Ethical Hacking
13 4 (2.353%) Change Control
13 4 (2.353%) Capacity Management
13 4 (2.353%) Load Balancing
13 4 (2.353%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.118%) C#
1 7 (4.118%) C++
1 7 (4.118%) XAML
2 3 (1.765%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.176%) Perl
3 2 (1.176%) PHP
4 1 (0.588%) Python
4 1 (0.588%) PowerHouse
4 1 (0.588%) Ruby
4 1 (0.588%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 126 (74.12%) Cisco Certification
2 105 (61.76%) CCNP
3 54 (31.76%) CCNA
4 20 (11.76%) Check Point Certification
5 17 (10.00%) CCDP
6 16 (9.412%) CCIE
7 13 (7.647%) CISSP
7 13 (7.647%) CEH
7 13 (7.647%) CISA
7 13 (7.647%) CISM
8 11 (6.471%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (5.882%) Degree
10 9 (5.294%) CCIP
11 8 (4.706%) CCSA
12 5 (2.941%) JNCIS
13 4 (2.353%) CCENT
13 4 (2.353%) SC Cleared
13 4 (2.353%) Security Cleared
13 4 (2.353%) CCSP
14 3 (1.765%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.65%) SLA
2 6 (3.529%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (3.529%) QA
System Software
1 15 (8.824%) ProxySG
2 10 (5.882%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.529%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.765%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (7.059%) OpenView
2 8 (4.706%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (3.529%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (1.765%) Nagios
5 2 (1.176%) Cisco UCCX
5 2 (1.176%) Cacti
6 1 (0.588%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.588%) WSUS
Vendors
1 143 (84.12%) Cisco
2 68 (40.00%) Juniper
3 45 (26.47%) CheckPoint
4 42 (24.71%) Microsoft
5 29 (17.06%) F5
6 17 (10.00%) HP
7 16 (9.412%) Blue Coat
8 12 (7.059%) VMware
9 8 (4.706%) Riverbed
9 8 (4.706%) Dell
10 6 (3.529%) SolarWinds
10 6 (3.529%) Infoblox
11 5 (2.941%) Nortel
11 5 (2.941%) Citrix
12 4 (2.353%) Brocade
13 3 (1.765%) Redback
13 3 (1.765%) Foundry
13 3 (1.765%) Fujitsu
13 3 (1.765%) Avaya
14 2 (1.176%) Adobe
City, London
Cisco CCNA or Juniper JNCIA-M or equivalent - Routing exp with at least 2 of the protocols (OSPF/RIP/BGP/MPLS - Experience with network projects, troubleshooting, planning & installation.
Araya Partners Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £70,000 per annum Salary plus bonus and benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
City of London
Network Engineer required for a Financial Services client. The Network Engineer will be the local network expert and support multiple sites within UK including 2 Colo sites. This...
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + bens
Posted: 3 June 2013
Central London / West End
Strong working knowledge on VOIP (Cisco, Avaya) Strong on Remote Access technologies. Strong with Wireless technologies. Practical working knowledge of routing technologies (RIP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast)... Cisco Certifications...
Araya Partners Ltd
Salary: From £55,000 to £70,000 per annum Excellent salary plus bonus and bene
Posted: 11 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Knowledge of network provider and carrier offerings (for WAN, LAN, MAN, MPLS, carrier neutral co-lo) *Strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, VPNs, QoS, layer 2 and layer...
OSM Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + negotiable
Posted: 15 June 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
Manage both the Server and Networking teams ** Develop and maintain the design documents, component guidelines, and standards for operating systems, servers, storage, and network technologies across various locations **...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £54000 - £61000 per annum + + Fantastic Benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £32000.00 per annum + Healthcare, Life Cover, Pension
Posted: 12 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £32000.00 per annum + Healthcare, Life Cover, Pension
Posted: 12 June 2013
Harrogate, Yorkshire
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Bracknell, Thames Valley
Posted: 6 June 2013
London
bridgenoble
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + 9% pension, private medical, 25 days
Posted: 5 June 2013