West Yorkshire BGP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) skills within the West Yorkshire 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	151	173
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching permanent IT job ads	32	25
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	3.397 %	2.662 %
Salaries quoted	26	19
Average minimum salary	£37,250	£38,526
Average salary	£40,321	£41,553
% change on same period last year	-2.96 %
Average maximum salary	£43,393	£44,579
UK excluding London average salary	£43,398	£44,504
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
Communications & Networking West Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	942	939
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.497 %	0.385 %
Salaries quoted	808	745
Average minimum salary	£30,312	£32,479
Average salary	£32,260	£34,156
% change on same period last year	-5.54 %
Average maximum salary	£34,209	£35,833
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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BGP across the West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds	+18	21	£38,588	-7.71 %
Wakefield	-8	4	£50,000	-1.63 %
Bradford	-14	4	£44,250	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West 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 48 (73.85 %) Cisco 2 46 (70.77 %) Cisco Certification 3 45 (69.23 %) VPN 4 37 (56.92 %) OSPF 5 34 (52.31 %) MPLS 6 32 (49.23 %) Ethernet 7 29 (44.62 %) CCNP 8 27 (41.54 %) EIGRP 8 27 (41.54 %) VoIP 9 26 (40.00 %) Firewall 10 22 (33.85 %) WAN 10 22 (33.85 %) CCNA 11 20 (30.77 %) PPP 11 20 (30.77 %) IPsec 12 19 (29.23 %) LAN

13 18 (27.69 %) RIP 14 17 (26.15 %) Wireless 15 16 (24.62 %) SNMP 15 16 (24.62 %) TCP/IP 15 16 (24.62 %) ATM 16 15 (23.08 %) GPRS 17 14 (21.54 %) Network Design 17 14 (21.54 %) VLAN 17 14 (21.54 %) Frame Relay 18 13 (20.00 %) CCDP 18 13 (20.00 %) L2TP 19 12 (18.46 %) ISDN 19 12 (18.46 %) Network Security 20 11 (16.92 %) X.25 21 10 (15.38 %) Assembly Language

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West 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.

Application Development 1 2 (3.077 %) POSIX 2 1 (1.538 %) ISPF	Communications & Networking 1 45 (69.23 %) VPN 2 37 (56.92 %) OSPF 3 34 (52.31 %) MPLS 4 32 (49.23 %) Ethernet 5 27 (41.54 %) VoIP 5 27 (41.54 %) EIGRP 6 26 (40.00 %) Firewall 7 22 (33.85 %) WAN 8 20 (30.77 %) PPP 8 20 (30.77 %) IPsec 9 19 (29.23 %) LAN 10 18 (27.69 %) RIP 11 17 (26.15 %) Wireless 12 16 (24.62 %) SNMP 12 16 (24.62 %) TCP/IP 12 16 (24.62 %) ATM 13 15 (23.08 %) GPRS 14 14 (21.54 %) Frame Relay 14 14 (21.54 %) VLAN 15 13 (20.00 %) L2TP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.077 %) MySQL	General 1 4 (6.154 %) Electronics 1 4 (6.154 %) Electric 1 4 (6.154 %) Health 1 4 (6.154 %) Marketing 2 2 (3.077 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.538 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 24 (36.92 %) Network Engineer 2 15 (23.08 %) Network Support 3 11 (16.92 %) Analyst 3 11 (16.92 %) Network Analyst 4 10 (15.38 %) Network Support Analyst 4 10 (15.38 %) Support Analyst 5 9 (13.85 %) Support Engineer 5 9 (13.85 %) Design Engineer 5 9 (13.85 %) Network Design Engineer 5 9 (13.85 %) Cisco Engineer 6 7 (10.77 %) Senior Network Engineer 7 6 (9.231 %) Cisco Network Engineer 7 6 (9.231 %) Software Development Engineer 7 6 (9.231 %) Software Engineer 7 6 (9.231 %) Senior Consultant 7 6 (9.231 %) Consultant 7 6 (9.231 %) Network Planner 8 5 (7.692 %) Technical Support Engineer 8 5 (7.692 %) Technical Support 8 5 (7.692 %) Technical Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (9.231 %) Device Driver 2 5 (7.692 %) Firmware
Operating Systems 1 3 (4.615 %) Windows 1 3 (4.615 %) Linux 1 3 (4.615 %) Windows 2000 1 3 (4.615 %) Fedora	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (21.54 %) Network Design 2 6 (9.231 %) Network Planning 3 4 (6.154 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 10 (15.38 %) C 1 10 (15.38 %) Assembly Language 2 6 (9.231 %) Embedded C 3 2 (3.077 %) Perl 3 2 (3.077 %) PHP 3 2 (3.077 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 46 (70.77 %) Cisco Certification 2 29 (44.62 %) CCNP 3 22 (33.85 %) CCNA 4 13 (20.00 %) CCDP 5 10 (15.38 %) CCIE 6 3 (4.615 %) CCSP 7 2 (3.077 %) MCP 7 2 (3.077 %) MCSE 7 2 (3.077 %) CCIP 7 2 (3.077 %) Microsoft Certification 7 2 (3.077 %) CCVP 8 1 (1.538 %) CCSE 8 1 (1.538 %) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.538 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 8 (12.31 %) Nagios
Vendors 1 48 (73.85 %) Cisco 2 6 (9.231 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (7.692 %) BT 3 5 (7.692 %) Red Hat 4 4 (6.154 %) EMC 4 4 (6.154 %) Citrix 5 3 (4.615 %) Juniper 6 2 (3.077 %) Nortel 7 1 (1.538 %) Nokia 7 1 (1.538 %) Fortinet