MPLS Contracts in Kent
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent 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 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 31 32 43
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +11
Contract jobs citing MPLS 9 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 3.000% 1.852% 0.635%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.32% 17.86% 2.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 0
Average daily rate £240 £320 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-44.64% +20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 37 28 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 12.33% 10.37% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 65
Average daily rate £240 £308 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.95% +2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
Average hourly rate £16.00 £67.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-76.29% +68.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
MPLS
South East

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent MPLS Hourly Rate Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 12 (92.31%) IPv6
1 12 (92.31%) CCNP
1 12 (92.31%) HP
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (92.31%) Internet
1 12 (92.31%) OSPF
1 12 (92.31%) BGP
1 12 (92.31%) Legal
1 12 (92.31%) JNCIP
2 11 (84.62%) Wireless
2 11 (84.62%) Juniper
2 11 (84.62%) VoIP
3 10 (76.92%) MCSE
3 10 (76.92%) DHCP
3 10 (76.92%) DNS
3 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (76.92%) RHCE
3 10 (76.92%) Change Management
3 10 (76.92%) Degree
3 10 (76.92%) Aruba
4 7 (53.85%) Cisco
5 4 (30.77%) Linux
6 3 (23.08%) Windows
6 3 (23.08%) Junos
7 2 (15.38%) Network Management
7 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (15.38%) Firewall
7 2 (15.38%) IP Telephony
7 2 (15.38%) Red Hat

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (7.692%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Apache
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) IPv6
1 12 (92.31%) Internet
1 12 (92.31%) OSPF
1 12 (92.31%) BGP
2 11 (84.62%) VoIP
2 11 (84.62%) Wireless
3 10 (76.92%) DHCP
3 10 (76.92%) DNS
4 3 (23.08%) Junos
5 2 (15.38%) IP Telephony
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (15.38%) Firewall
6 1 (7.692%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) WebLOAD
General
1 12 (92.31%) Legal
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Analyst
1 12 (92.31%) Network Analyst
2 1 (7.692%) Head of IT
2 1 (7.692%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.692%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Change Management
2 2 (15.38%) Network Management
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 1 (7.692%) Service Management
3 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) CCNP
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (92.31%) JNCIP
2 10 (76.92%) Degree
2 10 (76.92%) MCSE
2 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (76.92%) RHCE
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) HP
2 11 (84.62%) Juniper
3 10 (76.92%) Aruba
4 7 (53.85%) Cisco
5 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (7.692%) IBM
6 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.692%) Intel
6 1 (7.692%) Avaya
6 1 (7.692%) F5
6 1 (7.692%) Nokia
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