The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 23 25 36
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +11
Contract jobs citing MPLS 2 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.000% 2.265% 0.893%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.878% 16.67% 7.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
Average daily rate £300 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
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
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
41 42 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 20.50% 13.59% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 11
Average daily rate £313 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.37% -6.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £12.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £27.25 £40.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
MPLS
South East

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex MPLS Hourly Rate Trend

MPLS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) DSL
3 1 (33.33%) TELNET
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) CCVP
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) C

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) DSL
3 1 (33.33%) TELNET
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Voice Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) EMC