The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 17 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 Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MPLS 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.286% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £319 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £339 £325
% change year-on-year
-11.43% +4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-44.64% +20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
35 48 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 16.43% 25.95% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 12
Average daily rate £375 £420 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +18.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £142 £219 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
MPLS
Hampshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke MPLS Jobs Demand Trend

MPLS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MPLS across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke MPLS Daily Rate Trend

MPLS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MPLS across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke MPLS Hourly Rate Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing MPLS 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited MPLS.

1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (72.73%) OSPF
2 8 (72.73%) CCNP
2 8 (72.73%) CCNA
3 7 (63.64%) IPv6
3 7 (63.64%) TCP/IP
3 7 (63.64%) Telecoms
3 7 (63.64%) Internet
3 7 (63.64%) VLAN
3 7 (63.64%) VPLS
3 7 (63.64%) HSRP
4 3 (27.27%) Juniper
4 3 (27.27%) BGP
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
5 2 (18.18%) Firewall
5 2 (18.18%) SONET
5 2 (18.18%) RSVP
5 2 (18.18%) SDH
5 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) Network Design
6 1 (9.091%) Banking
6 1 (9.091%) Network Security
6 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
6 1 (9.091%) JNCIA
6 1 (9.091%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (9.091%) WAN
6 1 (9.091%) VPN
6 1 (9.091%) SQL

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing MPLS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MPLS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) OSPF
2 7 (63.64%) VLAN
2 7 (63.64%) VPLS
2 7 (63.64%) TCP/IP
2 7 (63.64%) IPv6
2 7 (63.64%) Internet
2 7 (63.64%) HSRP
3 3 (27.27%) BGP
4 2 (18.18%) RSVP
4 2 (18.18%) SONET
4 2 (18.18%) SDH
4 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
5 1 (9.091%) LAN
5 1 (9.091%) WAN
5 1 (9.091%) VPN
5 1 (9.091%) NetScreen
5 1 (9.091%) EIGRP
5 1 (9.091%) Network Security
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 7 (63.64%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Network Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 6 (54.55%) IP Engineer
4 5 (45.45%) IP Network Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Network Design Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Design Engineer
6 1 (9.091%) IT Consultant
6 1 (9.091%) Consultant
6 1 (9.091%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (9.091%) Network Implementation Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
1 2 (18.18%) Network Design
1 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
2 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.091%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (72.73%) CCNA
2 8 (72.73%) CCNP
3 1 (9.091%) CCIP
3 1 (9.091%) HND
3 1 (9.091%) CCIE
3 1 (9.091%) CCDP
3 1 (9.091%) JNCIA
3 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) Juniper
3 1 (9.091%) 3Com
3 1 (9.091%) Nortel
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix
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