The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 20 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 South West 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 93 119 113
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -6
Contract jobs citing MPLS 17 16 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.835% 0.519% 0.492%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.574% 3.636% 4.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
Average daily rate £438 £375 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £300 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £503 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
- -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Average hourly rate £9.75 £22.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -9.09%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
305 440 375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.97% 14.27% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 210 163
Average daily rate £350 £375 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £264 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 42 49
Average hourly rate £21.25 £24.38 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.82% -15.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £20.00 £17.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.70 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
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England

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West MPLS Hourly Rate Trend

MPLS
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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 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
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Job
Vacancies
Wiltshire +1 9 £450 -7.69% 5
Bristol +21 6 £263 -12.33% 5
Somerset - 1 - -
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MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 25 (83.33%) Cisco
2 21 (70.00%) Firewall
3 13 (43.33%) VPN
4 12 (40.00%) BGP
5 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
5 11 (36.67%) Windows
5 11 (36.67%) LAN
6 10 (33.33%) WAN
6 10 (33.33%) TCP/IP
6 10 (33.33%) CCNP
6 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 10 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (33.33%) OSPF
7 9 (30.00%) SAN
7 9 (30.00%) VMware
7 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
8 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (23.33%) Middleware
9 7 (23.33%) Juniper
9 7 (23.33%) Oracle 10g
9 7 (23.33%) Sun
9 7 (23.33%) DNS
9 7 (23.33%) ATM
9 7 (23.33%) UNIX
9 7 (23.33%) DHCP
9 7 (23.33%) Ethernet
9 7 (23.33%) Solaris
9 7 (23.33%) Linux
9 7 (23.33%) Oracle

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (23.33%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) WebLogic
1 7 (23.33%) GlassFish
1 7 (23.33%) Windows Azure
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 21 (70.00%) Firewall
2 13 (43.33%) VPN
3 12 (40.00%) BGP
4 11 (36.67%) LAN
5 10 (33.33%) WAN
5 10 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 10 (33.33%) OSPF
6 9 (30.00%) SAN
7 8 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (23.33%) DNS
8 7 (23.33%) ATM
8 7 (23.33%) DHCP
8 7 (23.33%) Ethernet
9 6 (20.00%) Wireless
10 5 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (16.67%) Unified Communications
10 5 (16.67%) FWSM
10 5 (16.67%) Frame Relay
10 5 (16.67%) IP Telephony
10 5 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.667%) Billing
2 2 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) Network Designer
2 7 (23.33%) Designer
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Network Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Network Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Network Specialist
6 2 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Coordinator
7 1 (3.333%) Network Consultant
7 1 (3.333%) Consultant
7 1 (3.333%) Service Delivery Coordinator
7 1 (3.333%) IP Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Cisco Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) PaaS
1 7 (23.33%) IaaS
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.333%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.333%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) UNIX
2 7 (23.33%) Solaris
2 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.667%) Windows 7
4 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.667%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.333%) SUSE
5 1 (3.333%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Load Balancing
2 4 (13.33%) Scrum
2 4 (13.33%) Network Management
3 3 (10.00%) Network Design
3 3 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (6.667%) Data Analysis
4 2 (6.667%) Software Deployment
5 1 (3.333%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.333%) Integration Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.333%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.333%) Data Entry
5 1 (3.333%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) CCNP
1 10 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) JNCIS
4 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.667%) CCNA
5 2 (6.667%) CCDP
6 1 (3.333%) CCIE
6 1 (3.333%) CCSP
6 1 (3.333%) CCIP
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (23.33%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (20.00%) vSphere
5 2 (6.667%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (6.667%) Forefront TMG
5 2 (6.667%) Terminal Server
5 2 (6.667%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (6.667%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 25 (83.33%) Cisco
2 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (30.00%) VMware
4 7 (23.33%) Juniper
4 7 (23.33%) Sun
4 7 (23.33%) Oracle
5 6 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 6 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 5 (16.67%) Nokia
6 5 (16.67%) IronPort
7 4 (13.33%) CA
7 4 (13.33%) IBM
7 4 (13.33%) HP
8 3 (10.00%) Blue Coat
9 2 (6.667%) BT
9 2 (6.667%) Avaya
9 2 (6.667%) Siemens
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