RIP Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RIP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RIP over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	808	831	842
Rank change year-on-year	+23	+11
Permanent jobs citing RIP	75	92	133
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.085%	0.093%	0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	0.53%	0.55%	0.69%
Number of salaries quoted	71	83	77
Median salary	£57,500	£47,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+21.05%	+5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than	£37,500	£35,300	£30,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£65,000	£55,000	£70,000
UK excluding London median salary	£65,000	£45,000	£45,000
% change year-on-year	+44.44%	-

RIP is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Communications & Computer Network Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	14196	16683	19335
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	16.14%	16.94%	17.43%
Number of salaries quoted	11554	13858	15753
Median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£45,000
90% offered a salary of more than	£27,500	£27,000	£27,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£67,500	£67,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£42,000
% change year-on-year	-	+1.19%

RIP
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing RIP as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

RIP
Salary Trend

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

RIP
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing RIP over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

RIP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RIP within the UK over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+37	71	£57,500	+21.05%	11
London	+59	41	£57,500	+15.00%	7
South East	+33	18	£65,000	+73.33%	1
Reading	+38	10	£65,000	+30.00%
Berkshire	+29	10	£65,000	+32.65%
City of London	+32	8	£62,500	-26.47%
Yorkshire	+7	8	£65,000	+18.18%
North Yorkshire	+5	8	£65,000	+18.18%
Kingston Upon Thames	-	4	£37,500	-
Kent	-	4	£45,000	-
Surrey	+27	3	£37,500	+11.94%
West Midlands	+6	2	£70,000	+40.00%	1
Cheshire	-	2	£60,000	-
Birmingham	-	2	£70,000	-	1
North West	-	2	£60,000	-
West Sussex	-	1	£37,500	-	1
Knutsford	-	1	£60,000	-
Chichester	-	1	£37,500	-	1

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT jobs citing RIP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for RIP.

1	129 (88.97%)	OSPF
2	114 (78.62%)	Cisco
3	107 (73.79%)	BGP
4	97 (66.90%)	VPN
5	91 (62.76%)	Cisco Certification
6	80 (55.17%)	Firewall
7	74 (51.03%)	CCNP
8	69 (47.59%)	MPLS
9	58 (40.00%)	WAN
10	51 (35.17%)	EIGRP
11	46 (31.72%)	Cisco Nexus
12	42 (28.97%)	LAN
13	40 (27.59%)	Linux
14	38 (26.21%)	CCIE
15	36 (24.83%)	Palo Alto

16	35 (24.14%)	Network Security
17	34 (23.45%)	Network Design
17	34 (23.45%)	Disaster Recovery
18	33 (22.76%)	DNS
18	33 (22.76%)	Microsoft
18	33 (22.76%)	FortiGate
19	31 (21.38%)	Ethernet
19	31 (21.38%)	Business Continuity
20	28 (19.31%)	Cisco PIX
20	28 (19.31%)	VoIP
20	28 (19.31%)	Windows
20	28 (19.31%)	LDAP
20	28 (19.31%)	TCP/IP
21	27 (18.62%)	Python
21	27 (18.62%)	Load Balancing

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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	5 (3.45%)	Skype for Business

Applications
1	8 (5.52%)	Microsoft Office
1	8 (5.52%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	1 (0.69%)	Remedy ITSM
1	1 (0.69%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	5 (3.45%)	Amazon AWS
1	5 (3.45%)	Azure Active Directory
1	5 (3.45%)	Microsoft Azure
2	3 (2.07%)	Office 365
3	2 (1.38%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	129 (88.97%)	OSPF
2	107 (73.79%)	BGP
3	97 (66.90%)	VPN
4	80 (55.17%)	Firewall
5	69 (47.59%)	MPLS
6	58 (40.00%)	WAN
7	51 (35.17%)	EIGRP
8	46 (31.72%)	Cisco Nexus
9	42 (28.97%)	LAN
10	35 (24.14%)	Network Security
11	33 (22.76%)	DNS
12	31 (21.38%)	Ethernet
13	28 (19.31%)	Cisco PIX
13	28 (19.31%)	LDAP
13	28 (19.31%)	TCP/IP
13	28 (19.31%)	VoIP
14	27 (18.62%)	Cisco ASA
15	26 (17.93%)	IPsec
15	26 (17.93%)	Junos
16	23 (15.86%)	Cisco IOS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	1 (0.69%)	SQL Server

Development Applications
1	1 (0.69%)	VSS/SourceSafe

General
1	18 (12.41%)	Finance
2	12 (8.28%)	Financial Institution
3	7 (4.83%)	Telecoms
4	6 (4.14%)	Retail
5	4 (2.76%)	Manufacturing
6	2 (1.38%)	Banking
6	2 (1.38%)	Games
7	1 (0.69%)	Electronics
7	1 (0.69%)	French Language
7	1 (0.69%)	Japanese Language
7	1 (0.69%)	Marketing
7	1 (0.69%)	Music Industry
7	1 (0.69%)	Spanish Language

Job Titles
1	83 (57.24%)	Network Engineer
2	54 (37.24%)	Cisco Engineer
3	51 (35.17%)	Cisco Network Engineer
4	45 (31.03%)	Senior Network Engineer
5	39 (26.90%)	Senior Cisco Engineer
5	39 (26.90%)	Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6	12 (8.28%)	Juniper Engineer
7	9 (6.21%)	Network Specialist
7	9 (6.21%)	Support Engineer
8	8 (5.52%)	Administrator
8	8 (5.52%)	Linux Administrator
8	8 (5.52%)	Linux Systems Administrator
8	8 (5.52%)	Systems Administrator
8	8 (5.52%)	Technical Support
9	7 (4.83%)	Technical Engineer
9	7 (4.83%)	Technical Support Engineer
10	6 (4.14%)	Network Support
11	5 (3.45%)	Senior Linux Administrator
11	5 (3.45%)	Senior Linux Systems Administrator
11	5 (3.45%)	Senior Systems Administrator

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	12 (8.28%)	CSS
2	7 (4.83%)	802.1X
3	3 (2.07%)	COM
4	1 (0.69%)	.NET
4	1 (0.69%)	ASP.NET
4	1 (0.69%)	ASP.NET MVC
4	1 (0.69%)	CGI
4	1 (0.69%)	CSS3
4	1 (0.69%)	FIX Protocol
4	1 (0.69%)	HTML
4	1 (0.69%)	HTML5
4	1 (0.69%)	jQuery

Miscellaneous
1	25 (17.24%)	Data Centre
2	9 (6.21%)	Linux Command Line
3	6 (4.14%)	Client/Server
3	6 (4.14%)	PKI
4	5 (3.45%)	Analytical Skills
4	5 (3.45%)	Driving Licence
5	4 (2.76%)	RSA SecurID
6	3 (2.07%)	Life Science
7	2 (1.38%)	Online Games
7	2 (1.38%)	Public Cloud
8	1 (0.69%)	Eurex
8	1 (0.69%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	40 (27.59%)	Linux
2	28 (19.31%)	Windows
3	20 (13.79%)	Mac OS X
4	13 (8.97%)	Windows Server
5	6 (4.14%)	CentOS
5	6 (4.14%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	6 (4.14%)	Windows 7
6	2 (1.38%)	Unix

Processes & Methodologies
1	34 (23.45%)	Disaster Recovery
1	34 (23.45%)	Network Design
2	31 (21.38%)	Business Continuity
3	27 (18.62%)	Load Balancing
4	26 (17.93%)	ITIL
5	18 (12.41%)	Change Management
5	18 (12.41%)	Low Latency
5	18 (12.41%)	Network Management
6	13 (8.97%)	Security Management
7	10 (6.90%)	Multi-Factor Authentication
7	10 (6.90%)	Network Monitoring
7	10 (6.90%)	Two-Factor Authentication
8	7 (4.83%)	Capacity Planning
8	7 (4.83%)	High Availability
8	7 (4.83%)	Migration
9	6 (4.14%)	Kalman Filter
9	6 (4.14%)	Performance Analysis
9	6 (4.14%)	Project Management
9	6 (4.14%)	Regulatory Compliance
10	5 (3.45%)	Escalation Management

Programming Languages
1	27 (18.62%)	Python
2	21 (14.48%)	Perl
3	19 (13.10%)	Bash Shell
3	19 (13.10%)	Ruby
4	1 (0.69%)	C#
4	1 (0.69%)	JavaScript
4	1 (0.69%)	VB.NET

Qualifications
1	91 (62.76%)	Cisco Certification
2	74 (51.03%)	CCNP
3	38 (26.21%)	CCIE
4	23 (15.86%)	CCNA
5	17 (11.72%)	Degree
6	6 (4.14%)	CCENT
7	5 (3.45%)	CCIP
8	4 (2.76%)	ITIL Certification
8	4 (2.76%)	Security Cleared
9	3 (2.07%)	SC Cleared
10	1 (0.69%)	CCDP
10	1 (0.69%)	DV Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	16 (11.03%)	SLA

System Software
1	21 (14.48%)	NFS
2	19 (13.10%)	iptables
2	19 (13.10%)	Virtual Machines
3	14 (9.66%)	Active Directory
4	13 (8.97%)	XenApp
5	8 (5.52%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	6 (4.14%)	KVM
6	6 (4.14%)	XenServer
7	4 (2.76%)	VMware ESXi

Systems Management
1	33 (22.76%)	FortiGate
2	13 (8.97%)	Cisco UCCX
3	12 (8.28%)	SCCM
3	12 (8.28%)	SCOM
4	7 (4.83%)	Cisco Prime
5	6 (4.14%)	Oracle ZFS
5	6 (4.14%)	WhatsUp Gold
6	5 (3.45%)	Nagios
7	4 (2.76%)	WMI
8	1 (0.69%)	BladeLogic
8	1 (0.69%)	SolarWinds Orion

Vendors
1	114 (78.62%)	Cisco
2	36 (24.83%)	Palo Alto
3	33 (22.76%)	Microsoft
4	25 (17.24%)	Juniper
5	20 (13.79%)	Citrix
6	19 (13.10%)	Red Hat
7	18 (12.41%)	F5
8	13 (8.97%)	NetApp
8	13 (8.97%)	Siemens
9	11 (7.59%)	CheckPoint
9	11 (7.59%)	SolarWinds
10	10 (6.90%)	VMware
11	6 (4.14%)	Riverbed
11	6 (4.14%)	Vyatta
12	5 (3.45%)	Arista
12	5 (3.45%)	Avaya
12	5 (3.45%)	Blue Coat
13	4 (2.76%)	Progress
14	3 (2.07%)	Fortinet
14	3 (2.07%)	McAfee