East of England MPLS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham City of London County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Redditch Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	113
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	33	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	4.377 %	4.150 %
Daily rates quoted	10	10
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£349
Average daily rate	£339	£375
% change on same period last year	-9.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£347
% change on same period last year	+10.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.33	-
Average hourly rate	£22.83	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.65	£31.64
% change on same period last year	-6.28 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	754	747
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.994 %	0.792 %
Daily rates quoted	253	203
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£334
Average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	115	124
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.07	£26.92
Average hourly rate	£28.64	£29.15
% change on same period last year	-1.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.20	£31.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
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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 East of England 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 East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MPLS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MPLS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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 Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridgeshire	+8	18	£200	-
Suffolk	+2	5	£294	-8.20 %
Hertfordshire	-15	4	£392	+2.89 %
Essex	0	3	£445	-
Bedfordshire	-	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 31 (67.39 %) LAN 2 25 (54.35 %) Cisco 3 24 (52.17 %) WAN 4 23 (50.00 %) Telecoms 5 22 (47.83 %) Firewall 6 19 (41.30 %) Cisco Certification 7 18 (39.13 %) DNS 8 17 (36.96 %) BGP 8 17 (36.96 %) VoIP 8 17 (36.96 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 16 (34.78 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 15 (32.61 %) VPN 11 14 (30.43 %) ITIL 12 13 (28.26 %) Linux 12 13 (28.26 %) MCSE

12 13 (28.26 %) Windows 12 13 (28.26 %) MS Exchange 12 13 (28.26 %) Microsoft Certification 12 13 (28.26 %) OSPF 13 12 (26.09 %) TCP/IP 13 12 (26.09 %) Microsoft 13 12 (26.09 %) CCNA 14 11 (23.91 %) CCNP 15 10 (21.74 %) Windows Server 2003 15 10 (21.74 %) ATM 16 9 (19.57 %) VMware 17 8 (17.39 %) Ethernet 17 8 (17.39 %) ISDN 18 7 (15.22 %) HP 18 7 (15.22 %) SDH

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 17 (36.96 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 16 (34.78 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 13 (28.26 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (10.87 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 5 (10.87 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.348 %) MS Visio 2 2 (4.348 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (2.174 %) Oracle ERP 1 1 (2.174 %) BASE24	Communications & Networking 1 31 (67.39 %) LAN 2 24 (52.17 %) WAN 3 22 (47.83 %) Firewall 4 18 (39.13 %) DNS 5 17 (36.96 %) BGP 5 17 (36.96 %) VoIP 6 15 (32.61 %) VPN 7 13 (28.26 %) OSPF 8 12 (26.09 %) TCP/IP 9 10 (21.74 %) ATM 10 8 (17.39 %) ISDN 10 8 (17.39 %) Ethernet 11 7 (15.22 %) SDH 12 6 (13.04 %) TACACS 13 5 (10.87 %) ADSL 13 5 (10.87 %) Wireless 13 5 (10.87 %) IPsec 14 4 (8.696 %) Frame Relay 14 4 (8.696 %) NetScreen 14 4 (8.696 %) Megaco
General 1 23 (50.00 %) Telecoms 2 5 (10.87 %) Finance 3 1 (2.174 %) Education 3 1 (2.174 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 11 (23.91 %) Analyst 2 10 (21.74 %) 3rd Line Support 3 7 (15.22 %) Network Analyst 4 5 (10.87 %) Support Engineer 5 4 (8.696 %) Support Analyst 5 4 (8.696 %) Architect 6 3 (6.522 %) Network Engineer 6 3 (6.522 %) 2nd Line Support 7 2 (4.348 %) Design Engineer 7 2 (4.348 %) IT Support Analyst 7 2 (4.348 %) Network Designer 7 2 (4.348 %) Server Support 7 2 (4.348 %) Technical Architect 7 2 (4.348 %) Consultant 7 2 (4.348 %) Support Specialist 7 2 (4.348 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 2 (4.348 %) Network Support 7 2 (4.348 %) Cisco Specialist 7 2 (4.348 %) Network Architect 8 1 (2.174 %) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.174 %) Mainframe 1 1 (2.174 %) German Language 1 1 (2.174 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 13 (28.26 %) Windows 1 13 (28.26 %) Linux 2 10 (21.74 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (4.348 %) Windows NT 3 2 (4.348 %) Unix 3 2 (4.348 %) Solaris 4 1 (2.174 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (30.43 %) ITIL 2 4 (8.696 %) Problem Management 3 3 (6.522 %) Project Management 3 3 (6.522 %) Network Design 4 2 (4.348 %) Network Planning 4 2 (4.348 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (2.174 %) Time Management 5 1 (2.174 %) Project Planning 5 1 (2.174 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (2.174 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.174 %) ERP	Qualifications 1 19 (41.30 %) Cisco Certification 2 13 (28.26 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (28.26 %) MCSE 3 12 (26.09 %) CCNA 4 11 (23.91 %) CCNP 5 5 (10.87 %) CCIP 6 4 (8.696 %) CCIE 7 2 (4.348 %) CCDP 8 1 (2.174 %) CCSP
System Software 1 4 (8.696 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (6.522 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (4.348 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 4 (8.696 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 25 (54.35 %) Cisco 2 12 (26.09 %) Microsoft 3 9 (19.57 %) VMware 4 7 (15.22 %) HP 5 6 (13.04 %) CheckPoint 6 4 (8.696 %) MetaSolv 6 4 (8.696 %) Cramer 6 4 (8.696 %) Nokia 7 3 (6.522 %) Nortel 8 2 (4.348 %) Citrix 8 2 (4.348 %) Avaya 8 2 (4.348 %) Sun 8 2 (4.348 %) IBM 8 2 (4.348 %) Crossbeam 9 1 (2.174 %) Oracle 9 1 (2.174 %) Juniper 9 1 (2.174 %) Alcatel 9 1 (2.174 %) Red Hat 9 1 (2.174 %) Dell 9 1 (2.174 %) 3Com