Berkshire MPLS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West Nottinghamshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Salisbury Scotland Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	94
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	54	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.061 %
As % of the category below	6.391 %	5.348 %
Daily rates quoted	29	22
Average minimum daily rate	£433	£352
Average daily rate	£447	£366
% change on same period last year	+22.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£461	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£405	£366
% change on same period last year	+10.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.73	£32.15
% change on same period last year	+8.03 %
Communications & Networking Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	845	1122
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.201 %	1.133 %
Daily rates quoted	176	337
Average minimum daily rate	£416	£339
Average daily rate	£433	£356
% change on same period last year	+21.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£451	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	161
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.12	£29.19
Average hourly rate	£28.93	£30.48
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.74	£31.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.56	£28.73
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
MPLS South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MPLS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+21	24	£481	+34.89 %
Bracknell	+17	10	£272	-29.98 %
Maidenhead	+4	3	-	-
Newbury	+12	2	-	-

MPLS South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 49 (65.33 %) Cisco 2 37 (49.33 %) BGP 3 33 (44.00 %) OSPF 4 31 (41.33 %) VPN 5 28 (37.33 %) Firewall 6 25 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 7 24 (32.00 %) Telecoms 8 20 (26.67 %) CheckPoint 9 19 (25.33 %) BIG-IP 9 19 (25.33 %) Cisco PIX 10 18 (24.00 %) TCP/IP 11 17 (22.67 %) Cisco ASA 12 16 (21.33 %) Nortel 12 16 (21.33 %) RIP 12 16 (21.33 %) LAN

12 16 (21.33 %) VoIP 12 16 (21.33 %) WAN 12 16 (21.33 %) Nortel Alteon 13 15 (20.00 %) Migration 14 14 (18.67 %) DNS 14 14 (18.67 %) ATM 15 13 (17.33 %) CCNP 16 10 (13.33 %) EIGRP 17 9 (12.00 %) Frame Relay 18 8 (10.67 %) SNMP 18 8 (10.67 %) Ethernet 18 8 (10.67 %) Security Cleared 18 8 (10.67 %) VLAN 19 7 (9.333 %) SC Cleared 19 7 (9.333 %) SDH

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 Development 1 1 (1.333 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.333 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.333 %) IIS 1 1 (1.333 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (1.333 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.333 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 37 (49.33 %) BGP 2 33 (44.00 %) OSPF 3 31 (41.33 %) VPN 4 28 (37.33 %) Firewall 5 19 (25.33 %) BIG-IP 5 19 (25.33 %) Cisco PIX 6 18 (24.00 %) TCP/IP 7 17 (22.67 %) Cisco ASA 8 16 (21.33 %) RIP 8 16 (21.33 %) LAN 8 16 (21.33 %) VoIP 8 16 (21.33 %) WAN 8 16 (21.33 %) Nortel Alteon 9 14 (18.67 %) DNS 9 14 (18.67 %) ATM 10 10 (13.33 %) EIGRP 11 9 (12.00 %) Frame Relay 12 8 (10.67 %) SNMP 12 8 (10.67 %) Ethernet 12 8 (10.67 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.333 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.333 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (1.333 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 24 (32.00 %) Telecoms 2 6 (8.000 %) Government 3 2 (2.667 %) Billing 3 2 (2.667 %) Finance 4 1 (1.333 %) Publishing 4 1 (1.333 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.333 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 23 (30.67 %) Network Engineer 2 16 (21.33 %) Cisco Engineer 3 14 (18.67 %) Design Engineer 3 14 (18.67 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 12 (16.00 %) Senior Cisco Engineer 5 10 (13.33 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 9 (12.00 %) Project Manager 6 9 (12.00 %) Analyst 7 8 (10.67 %) Senior Cisco Network Engineer 8 6 (8.000 %) Consultant 9 5 (6.667 %) Customer Engineer 9 5 (6.667 %) Architect 9 5 (6.667 %) Network Architect 10 4 (5.333 %) Security Engineer 10 4 (5.333 %) Senior Analyst 10 4 (5.333 %) Support Analyst 11 3 (4.000 %) Data Analyst 11 3 (4.000 %) Network Designer 11 3 (4.000 %) Systems Analyst 11 3 (4.000 %) Senior Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.000 %) PMI 2 1 (1.333 %) Replication 2 1 (1.333 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.333 %) Dutch Language 2 1 (1.333 %) French Language 2 1 (1.333 %) Italian Language 2 1 (1.333 %) Spanish Language
Operating Systems 1 4 (5.333 %) Windows Server 2003 1 4 (5.333 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (20.00 %) Migration 2 8 (10.67 %) Security Cleared 3 7 (9.333 %) SC Cleared 3 7 (9.333 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (9.333 %) Network Design 4 6 (8.000 %) Load Balancing 5 3 (4.000 %) ITIL 5 3 (4.000 %) Validation 6 2 (2.667 %) Incident Management 6 2 (2.667 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.333 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (1.333 %) eTOM 7 1 (1.333 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (2.667 %) C	Qualifications 1 25 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 13 (17.33 %) CCNP 3 5 (6.667 %) CCIE 3 5 (6.667 %) CCSP 4 4 (5.333 %) CCNA 4 4 (5.333 %) CCDP 5 3 (4.000 %) CCIP 5 3 (4.000 %) PMP 5 3 (4.000 %) PMI Certification 6 2 (2.667 %) ITIL Certification 7 1 (1.333 %) MCSE 7 1 (1.333 %) MCP 7 1 (1.333 %) HNC 7 1 (1.333 %) CCDA 7 1 (1.333 %) Microsoft Certification 7 1 (1.333 %) JNCIA 7 1 (1.333 %) JNCIS 7 1 (1.333 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.667 %) QA 2 1 (1.333 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (4.000 %) NFS 2 1 (1.333 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (1.333 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 1 (1.333 %) MOM 1 1 (1.333 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 49 (65.33 %) Cisco 2 20 (26.67 %) CheckPoint 3 16 (21.33 %) Nortel 4 6 (8.000 %) Alcatel 5 4 (5.333 %) Juniper 6 3 (4.000 %) Oracle 6 3 (4.000 %) SAP 6 3 (4.000 %) Nokia 6 3 (4.000 %) Crossbeam 7 1 (1.333 %) Lucent 7 1 (1.333 %) Remedy 7 1 (1.333 %) Redback 7 1 (1.333 %) Fujitsu