MPLS Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 172 148 200
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +52
Contract jobs citing MPLS 31 69 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.482% 0.878% 0.372%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.695% 6.785% 3.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 55 22
Average daily rate £351 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £292 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £433 £511
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-44.64% +20.00%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 839 1017 974
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.06% 12.94% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 692 637
Average daily rate £388 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.06% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £270 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 39 71
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
MPLS
London

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London MPLS Daily Rate Trend

MPLS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MPLS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London MPLS Daily Rate Histogram

MPLS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London MPLS Hourly Rate Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 47 (78.33%) Cisco
2 33 (55.00%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (46.67%) BGP
4 25 (41.67%) OSPF
4 25 (41.67%) WAN
5 24 (40.00%) CCNP
6 22 (36.67%) Juniper
7 20 (33.33%) LAN
7 20 (33.33%) Firewall
8 18 (30.00%) Finance
9 17 (28.33%) CCIE
10 15 (25.00%) Network Security
11 13 (21.67%) VPN
11 13 (21.67%) Telecoms
11 13 (21.67%) Wireless
12 12 (20.00%) Ethernet
12 12 (20.00%) CCNA
13 11 (18.33%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (16.67%) Network Management
14 10 (16.67%) CCDP
14 10 (16.67%) HP
14 10 (16.67%) Internet
15 9 (15.00%) CheckPoint
15 9 (15.00%) SNMP
15 9 (15.00%) Migration
15 9 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
16 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
16 8 (13.33%) VMware
16 8 (13.33%) Project Management
17 7 (11.67%) VoIP

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Communications & Networking
1 28 (46.67%) BGP
2 25 (41.67%) OSPF
2 25 (41.67%) WAN
3 20 (33.33%) LAN
3 20 (33.33%) Firewall
4 15 (25.00%) Network Security
5 13 (21.67%) VPN
5 13 (21.67%) Wireless
6 12 (20.00%) Ethernet
7 11 (18.33%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (16.67%) Internet
9 9 (15.00%) SNMP
9 9 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (11.67%) VoIP
10 7 (11.67%) IP Telephony
11 6 (10.00%) Junos
11 6 (10.00%) VLAN
11 6 (10.00%) IPsec
12 5 (8.333%) DHCP
12 5 (8.333%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.667%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (30.00%) Finance
2 13 (21.67%) Telecoms
3 7 (11.67%) Advertising
4 6 (10.00%) Banking
5 4 (6.667%) French Language
5 4 (6.667%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.000%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.333%) Retail
8 1 (1.667%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (45.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (11.67%) Design Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Consultant
4 5 (8.333%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.667%) Security Engineer
5 4 (6.667%) Architect
6 3 (5.000%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.000%) Security Consultant
6 3 (5.000%) Information Security Consultant
6 3 (5.000%) Change Manager
6 3 (5.000%) Business Change Manager
6 3 (5.000%) Business Project Manager
6 3 (5.000%) Business Manager
6 3 (5.000%) Business Change Project Manager
6 3 (5.000%) Change Project Manager
7 2 (3.333%) Designer
7 2 (3.333%) Development Engineer
7 2 (3.333%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.333%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (3.333%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.667%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.667%) SecurID
3 1 (1.667%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.667%) SaaS
3 1 (1.667%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) UNIX
3 4 (6.667%) Windows
4 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (16.67%) Network Management
2 9 (15.00%) Migration
3 8 (13.33%) Project Management
4 7 (11.67%) Network Design
5 6 (10.00%) Network Architecture
6 5 (8.333%) Business Continuity
7 4 (6.667%) Project Planning
7 4 (6.667%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (6.667%) Information Security
7 4 (6.667%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (6.667%) Risk Management
7 4 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (5.000%) Load Balancing
8 3 (5.000%) Change Control
8 3 (5.000%) Security Architecture
9 2 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (3.333%) Validation
9 2 (3.333%) ITIL
10 1 (1.667%) PRINCE2
10 1 (1.667%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 33 (55.00%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (40.00%) CCNP
3 17 (28.33%) CCIE
4 12 (20.00%) CCNA
5 10 (16.67%) CCDP
6 5 (8.333%) JNCIA
6 5 (8.333%) JNCIP
6 5 (8.333%) JNCIE
6 5 (8.333%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.333%) Security Cleared
7 4 (6.667%) JNCIS
8 3 (5.000%) CCDA
8 3 (5.000%) CCIP
8 3 (5.000%) CCSA
8 3 (5.000%) CCSE
9 2 (3.333%) CISSP
9 2 (3.333%) CCSP
10 1 (1.667%) MCSE
10 1 (1.667%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.667%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.667%) PCI DSS
1 4 (6.667%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.333%) vSphere
3 1 (1.667%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.667%) XenApp
3 1 (1.667%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 4 (6.667%) CiscoWorks
3 3 (5.000%) OpenView
4 1 (1.667%) SCOM
4 1 (1.667%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 47 (78.33%) Cisco
2 22 (36.67%) Juniper
3 10 (16.67%) HP
4 9 (15.00%) CheckPoint
5 8 (13.33%) VMware
6 7 (11.67%) F5
7 6 (10.00%) Fortinet
7 6 (10.00%) Sourcefire
8 5 (8.333%) Nokia
8 5 (8.333%) Polycom
8 5 (8.333%) Aruba
9 4 (6.667%) Riverbed
10 2 (3.333%) Twitter
10 2 (3.333%) Speakerbus
10 2 (3.333%) SolarWinds
10 2 (3.333%) Avaya
10 2 (3.333%) NetApp
11 1 (1.667%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.667%) Reuters
11 1 (1.667%) Bloomberg
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