The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 40 35 34
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -1
Contract jobs citing MPLS 2 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.699% 1.385% 0.637%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.651% 7.463% 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £513 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +18.49%
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
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
43 67 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.03% 18.56% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 14
Average daily rate £440 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £271 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
Average hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% +12.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.70 £32.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.30 £32.50 £35.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
MPLS
Wiltshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon MPLS Daily Rate Trend

MPLS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) ATM
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIS
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) IPv4
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) ATM
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
2 1 (50.00%) IPv4
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIS
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
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