The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Scotland 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 116 102 102
Rank change year-on-year
-14 0
Contract jobs citing MPLS 3 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.120% 0.260% 0.351%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.176% 2.029% 3.425%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
Average daily rate £331 £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.35% +55.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
- -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £45.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -9.09%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
255 345 292
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.18% 12.83% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 134 79
Average daily rate £330 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 24
Average hourly rate £32.25 £30.41 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.05% +84.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.20 £16.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £31.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
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MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland MPLS Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland MPLS Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MPLS across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Scotland MPLS Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland MPLS Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Aberdeen +1 1 £413 - 1
Glasgow - - - -
Renfrewshire - - - - 1
West Lothian - - - - 1
North Lanarkshire - - - - 4
South Lanarkshire - - - - 1
Highlands - - - -
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) LAN
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
1 4 (57.14%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) SonicWALL
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) HSRP
2 3 (42.86%) FortiGate
2 3 (42.86%) EIGRP
2 3 (42.86%) ADSL
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) WLAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) JBoss
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (28.57%) Marketing
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) LAN
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
1 4 (57.14%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) HSRP
2 3 (42.86%) EIGRP
2 3 (42.86%) ADSL
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) WLAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Insight
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL V3
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) FortiGate
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) SonicWALL
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) JBoss
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Websense
4 1 (14.29%) TIBCO
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