MPLS Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 21 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 Reading 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 55 41 64
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +23
Contract jobs citing MPLS 18 40 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.103% 3.620% 1.456%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.278% 8.658% 7.282%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
Average daily rate £273 £375 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.33% +44.23%
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 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-44.64% +20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 194 462 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.66% 41.81% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 110 68
Average daily rate £275 £280 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £431 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -11.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
MPLS
Berkshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading MPLS Daily Rate Trend

MPLS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MPLS across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading MPLS Daily Rate Histogram

MPLS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MPLS across the Reading region.

Reading MPLS Hourly Rate Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 36 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 33 (78.57%) Ethernet
3 22 (52.38%) Radio Access Network
4 21 (50.00%) 3G
5 20 (47.62%) ATM
5 20 (47.62%) SDH
6 19 (45.24%) 2G
7 18 (42.86%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 18 (42.86%) Ericsson
8 17 (40.48%) OSPF
8 17 (40.48%) BGP
9 15 (35.71%) VPN
9 15 (35.71%) LTE
9 15 (35.71%) Network Design
10 12 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
10 12 (28.57%) HSRP
11 11 (26.19%) Huawei
11 11 (26.19%) VRRP
11 11 (26.19%) Project Management
11 11 (26.19%) RSVP
12 9 (21.43%) Nokia
12 9 (21.43%) BT
12 9 (21.43%) Cisco
13 8 (19.05%) MS Office
14 5 (11.90%) WAN
14 5 (11.90%) NEC
14 5 (11.90%) Project Planning
14 5 (11.90%) 4G
15 4 (9.524%) DWDM
16 3 (7.143%) Juniper

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (2.381%) HTML
Applications
1 8 (19.05%) MS Office
2 3 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 33 (78.57%) Ethernet
2 22 (52.38%) Radio Access Network
3 21 (50.00%) 3G
4 20 (47.62%) ATM
4 20 (47.62%) SDH
5 19 (45.24%) 2G
6 17 (40.48%) OSPF
6 17 (40.48%) BGP
7 15 (35.71%) VPN
7 15 (35.71%) LTE
8 12 (28.57%) HSRP
9 11 (26.19%) VRRP
9 11 (26.19%) RSVP
10 5 (11.90%) WAN
10 5 (11.90%) 4G
11 4 (9.524%) DWDM
12 3 (7.143%) DNS
12 3 (7.143%) Firewall
12 3 (7.143%) DHCP
12 3 (7.143%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.381%) MS Access
General
1 36 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.762%) Back Office
3 1 (2.381%) French Language
3 1 (2.381%) German Language
Job Titles
1 31 (73.81%) Design Engineer
2 19 (45.24%) Transmission Engineer
3 14 (33.33%) Network Engineer
4 11 (26.19%) Network Design Engineer
5 3 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.143%) IP Engineer
6 2 (4.762%) Network Design Architect
6 2 (4.762%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.762%) Architect
7 1 (2.381%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.381%) Help Desk Support
7 1 (2.381%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.381%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (2.381%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.381%) Help Desk Engineer
7 1 (2.381%) Network Consultant
7 1 (2.381%) Consultant
7 1 (2.381%) Network Team Leader
7 1 (2.381%) 3G Engineer
7 1 (2.381%) IP Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (4.762%) Windows
1 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Network Design
2 12 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 11 (26.19%) Project Management
4 5 (11.90%) Project Planning
5 1 (2.381%) Network Planning
5 1 (2.381%) Capacity Management
5 1 (2.381%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.381%) C#
1 1 (2.381%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.381%) SQL
1 1 (2.381%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (4.762%) CCSP
1 2 (4.762%) CCNP
1 2 (4.762%) CCIP
1 2 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.381%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.381%) CCNA
2 1 (2.381%) CCIE
2 1 (2.381%) MCP
2 1 (2.381%) JNCIP
2 1 (2.381%) JNCIE
System Software
1 2 (4.762%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.381%) OpenView
1 1 (2.381%) CiscoWorks
1 1 (2.381%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Nokia Siemens Networks
1 18 (42.86%) Ericsson
2 11 (26.19%) Huawei
3 9 (21.43%) Nokia
3 9 (21.43%) BT
3 9 (21.43%) Cisco
4 5 (11.90%) NEC
5 3 (7.143%) Juniper
6 2 (4.762%) VMware
7 1 (2.381%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.381%) HP
7 1 (2.381%) Citrix
7 1 (2.381%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.381%) Redback
7 1 (2.381%) Riverbed
7 1 (2.381%) Twitter
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