Wales BGP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Accrington Andover Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Watford Wembley West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	90	103
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	10
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.942 %	3.021 %
Salaries quoted	6	9
Average minimum salary	£30,667	£27,778
Average salary	£34,500	£34,444
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Average maximum salary	£38,333	£41,111
UK excluding London average salary	£43,398	£44,504
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
Communications & Networking Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	309	331
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.163 %	0.136 %
Salaries quoted	289	291
Average minimum salary	£35,348	£32,074
Average salary	£38,455	£35,183
% change on same period last year	+9.30 %
Average maximum salary	£41,562	£38,291
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing BGP across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BGP across the Wales region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	+13	6	£34,500	-2.30 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 16 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 16 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 15 (93.75 %) OSPF 3 13 (81.25 %) EIGRP 3 13 (81.25 %) CCNP 3 13 (81.25 %) RIP 4 12 (75.00 %) Ethernet 4 12 (75.00 %) PPP 4 12 (75.00 %) Change Management 4 12 (75.00 %) Nortel 4 12 (75.00 %) FDDI 4 12 (75.00 %) Telecoms 4 12 (75.00 %) 3Com 5 11 (68.75 %) Remedy 5 11 (68.75 %) Broadband

6 10 (62.50 %) Statistics 7 3 (18.75 %) MPLS 7 3 (18.75 %) CCIE 8 2 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 8 2 (12.50 %) VPN 8 2 (12.50 %) DNS 8 2 (12.50 %) LAN 8 2 (12.50 %) WAN 8 2 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 8 2 (12.50 %) Firewall 8 2 (12.50 %) ADSL 8 2 (12.50 %) CiscoWorks 8 2 (12.50 %) Network Design 9 1 (6.250 %) IPTV 9 1 (6.250 %) LLU

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 15 (93.75 %) OSPF 2 13 (81.25 %) EIGRP 2 13 (81.25 %) RIP 3 12 (75.00 %) Ethernet 3 12 (75.00 %) PPP 3 12 (75.00 %) FDDI 4 11 (68.75 %) Broadband 5 3 (18.75 %) MPLS 6 2 (12.50 %) ADSL 6 2 (12.50 %) Firewall 6 2 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (12.50 %) VPN 6 2 (12.50 %) DNS 6 2 (12.50 %) LAN 6 2 (12.50 %) WAN 7 1 (6.250 %) DHCP 7 1 (6.250 %) VoIP 7 1 (6.250 %) ISDN 7 1 (6.250 %) IPsec 7 1 (6.250 %) VDSL	General 1 12 (75.00 %) Telecoms 2 1 (6.250 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 12 (75.00 %) Support Engineer 1 12 (75.00 %) Telecoms Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) Network Designer 3 1 (6.250 %) Design Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Network Design Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (62.50 %) Statistics 2 1 (6.250 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) UNIX 1 1 (6.250 %) Solaris 1 1 (6.250 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (75.00 %) Change Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Network Design
Qualifications 1 16 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 13 (81.25 %) CCNP 3 3 (18.75 %) CCIE 4 1 (6.250 %) CCNA 4 1 (6.250 %) CCDP	Systems Management 1 2 (12.50 %) CiscoWorks 2 1 (6.250 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 16 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 12 (75.00 %) Nortel 2 12 (75.00 %) 3Com 3 11 (68.75 %) Remedy 4 2 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (6.250 %) BMC 5 1 (6.250 %) Nokia