The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 56 60 67
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +7
Contract jobs citing MPLS 1 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.120% 0.276% 0.077%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.176% 2.190% 0.870%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £42.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
-45.29% +36.00%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
85 137 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 10.20% 12.60% 8.880%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 57 31
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £243 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £9.20 £32.00 £15.58
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-71.25% +105.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
MPLS
Scotland

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh MPLS Hourly Rate Trend

MPLS
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (50.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) TIBCO