The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Gloucestershire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 34 - 54
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MPLS 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.410% - 0.223%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.564% - 1.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
- -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -9.09%
All Communications & Networking
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
39 84 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 15.98% 16.90% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 50 27
Average daily rate £450 £416 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% +18.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £360 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
Average hourly rate £21.25 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.00 £20.00 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.60 £20.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
MPLS
South West

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire MPLS Daily Rate Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) SAN
2 7 (87.50%) Middleware
2 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle 10g
2 7 (87.50%) Sun
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) WebLogic
2 7 (87.50%) UNIX
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Solaris
2 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) DHCP
2 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (87.50%) DNS
2 7 (87.50%) Load Balancing
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (87.50%) GlassFish
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Azure
2 7 (87.50%) PaaS
2 7 (87.50%) IaaS
3 6 (75.00%) Amazon AWS
3 6 (75.00%) vSphere
3 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (87.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (87.50%) WebLogic
1 7 (87.50%) GlassFish
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) SAN
2 7 (87.50%) DHCP
2 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (87.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Architect
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) PaaS
1 7 (87.50%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) UNIX
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Solaris
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
1 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 1 (12.50%) SUSE
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCSP
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (75.00%) vSphere
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Sun
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle
3 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint