Leeds MPLS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) skills within the Leeds 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.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
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	67	65
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	12	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	8.163 %	2.256 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£280
Average daily rate	£268	£315
% change on same period last year	-14.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£286	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£347
% change on same period last year	+10.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	-
Average hourly rate	£21.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.65	£31.64
% change on same period last year	-6.28 %
Communications & Networking Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	147	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.194 %	0.141 %
Daily rates quoted	42	32
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£318
Average daily rate	£308	£328
% change on same period last year	-6.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.24	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£21.14	£22.92
% change on same period last year	-7.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.04	£23.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
MPLS West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 %) WAN 2 10 (76.92 %) VPN 2 10 (76.92 %) Microsoft 2 10 (76.92 %) Active Directory 2 10 (76.92 %) SQL 2 10 (76.92 %) SQL Server 2 10 (76.92 %) ITIL 2 10 (76.92 %) PRINCE2 2 10 (76.92 %) Windows 2 10 (76.92 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (76.92 %) SAN 2 10 (76.92 %) Firewall 2 10 (76.92 %) VMware ESX 2 10 (76.92 %) SQL Server 2005 2 10 (76.92 %) Exchange Server 2003

3 6 (46.15 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 6 (46.15 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 6 (46.15 %) Finance 3 6 (46.15 %) Law 3 6 (46.15 %) VMware 3 6 (46.15 %) Banking 3 6 (46.15 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (46.15 %) Project Management 3 6 (46.15 %) MS Excel 4 4 (30.77 %) Network Load Balancing 4 4 (30.77 %) Windows XP 4 4 (30.77 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (30.77 %) MCSE 4 4 (30.77 %) Internet 4 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 10 (76.92 %) MS Exchange 1 10 (76.92 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 6 (46.15 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 6 (46.15 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 12 (92.31 %) WAN 2 10 (76.92 %) VPN 2 10 (76.92 %) SAN 2 10 (76.92 %) Firewall 3 4 (30.77 %) Internet 4 1 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (7.692 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (76.92 %) SQL Server 1 10 (76.92 %) SQL Server 2005 2 6 (46.15 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 6 (46.15 %) Finance 1 6 (46.15 %) Law 1 6 (46.15 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 5 (38.46 %) Project Engineer 2 4 (30.77 %) Consultant 2 4 (30.77 %) Technical Consultant 3 2 (15.38 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (15.38 %) Cisco Engineer 3 2 (15.38 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 2 (15.38 %) Project Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) Cisco Support 4 1 (7.692 %) Network Support 4 1 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Network Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Network Support Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Architect 4 1 (7.692 %) Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) IT Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous 1 4 (30.77 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 10 (76.92 %) Windows 2 4 (30.77 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (30.77 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (76.92 %) ITIL 1 10 (76.92 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (46.15 %) Project Management 3 4 (30.77 %) Network Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 10 (76.92 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (30.77 %) MCSE 1 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft Certification 1 4 (30.77 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (23.08 %) CCNA 2 3 (23.08 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 10 (76.92 %) Active Directory 1 10 (76.92 %) VMware ESX 2 6 (46.15 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 10 (76.92 %) Microsoft 2 6 (46.15 %) VMware 3 3 (23.08 %) Cisco 4 1 (7.692 %) BT