Merseyside MPLS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff City of London Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Salisbury Scotland Shropshire South Coast South East South Wales South West Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	47
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.778 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£361
% change on same period last year	+5.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.50	£32.40
% change on same period last year	+6.48 %
Communications & Networking Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	35	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.071 %
Daily rates quoted	11	29
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£298
Average daily rate	£375	£305
% change on same period last year	+22.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.97	£24.33
Average hourly rate	£17.57	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-32.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.18	£27.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
MPLS North West

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.

MPLS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MPLS across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

MPLS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MPLS across the Merseyside region.