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The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 18 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.

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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 302 303 272
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -31
Contract jobs citing MPLS 277 332 377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.569% 0.572% 0.606%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.975% 3.655% 4.659%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 156 163
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £262 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
- -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 16
Average hourly rate £28.75 £27.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% -5.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.07 £21.40 £14.78
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £27.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year
+4.54% +2.80%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6968 9083 8091
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.31% 15.64% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3510 4049 3664
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 620 810
Average hourly rate £23.75 £25.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

MPLS Daily Rate Trend

MPLS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MPLS within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

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 within the UK.

MPLS Hourly Rate Trend

MPLS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MPLS within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

MPLS Hourly Rate Histogram

MPLS
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 18 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
England -13 259 £350 -6.66% 96
London -21 104 £388 -3.12% 42
South East -8 95 £300 -9.43% 26
Berkshire -4 54 £281 -7.78% 11
City of London -6 33 £375 -6.25% 15
Reading -1 25 £273 -6.83% 4
Hampshire +8 21 £325 -23.52% 3
South West +27 16 £450 +20.00% 8
West Midlands +19 14 £108 -60.90% 4
Yorkshire +8 14 £338 -3.57% 6
West Yorkshire +8 10 £338 -3.57% 4
Wiltshire -3 8 £450 -7.69% 4
Swindon -7 7 £450 -7.69%
Birmingham - 7 - -
Bristol +23 6 £263 -12.33% 4
Wales +14 6 - - 4
East of England +12 6 £210 -23.63% 3
Cardiff +10 6 - - 4
South Wales +9 6 - - 4
Newbury +6 6 £450 - 3
Leeds +4 6 £338 -3.57% 3
Basingstoke -3 6 £288 -43.90% 1
West Sussex +4 5 £250 +78.57%
Buckinghamshire 0 5 £250 - 1
Crawley +7 4 - -
Bradford - 4 £225 - 1
Coventry - 4 £104 -
Kent - 4 £240 - 8
North West +7 3 - - 2
Scotland -17 3 £331 -5.35% 3

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 342 (63.93%) Cisco
2 245 (45.79%) Cisco Certification
3 220 (41.12%) WAN
4 204 (38.13%) BGP
5 200 (37.38%) LAN
6 183 (34.21%) Firewall
7 169 (31.59%) Telecoms
8 168 (31.40%) CCNP
9 165 (30.84%) VPN
10 156 (29.16%) OSPF
11 130 (24.30%) Ethernet
12 122 (22.80%) Juniper
13 121 (22.62%) CCNA
14 109 (20.37%) Wireless
15 108 (20.19%) VoIP
16 105 (19.63%) TCP/IP
17 96 (17.94%) Project Management
18 93 (17.38%) Windows
19 87 (16.26%) Microsoft
20 79 (14.77%) Cisco ASA
21 78 (14.58%) ATM
22 76 (14.21%) VMware
23 75 (14.02%) Internet
23 75 (14.02%) HP
24 71 (13.27%) DNS
24 71 (13.27%) EIGRP
25 68 (12.71%) DHCP
26 63 (11.78%) VLAN
27 62 (11.59%) SAN
27 62 (11.59%) ITIL

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 14 (2.617%) Middleware
2 5 (0.935%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.374%) COM
4 1 (0.187%) CSS
4 1 (0.187%) WAP
4 1 (0.187%) MAPI
4 1 (0.187%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (0.187%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.187%) HTML
4 1 (0.187%) .NET
4 1 (0.187%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 18 (3.364%) MS Exchange
2 15 (2.804%) Lync
3 13 (2.430%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (1.869%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.682%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.495%) IIS
7 7 (1.308%) Apache
7 7 (1.308%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (1.308%) Windows Azure
7 7 (1.308%) GlassFish
8 6 (1.121%) Amazon AWS
8 6 (1.121%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (0.935%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.561%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (0.561%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (0.374%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.187%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (0.187%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.187%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 31 (5.794%) MS Office
1 31 (5.794%) MS Excel
2 18 (3.364%) MS Visio
3 12 (2.243%) MS Project
4 5 (0.935%) MS PowerPoint
5 4 (0.748%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.374%) Minerva
Communications & Networking
1 220 (41.12%) WAN
2 204 (38.13%) BGP
3 200 (37.38%) LAN
4 183 (34.21%) Firewall
5 165 (30.84%) VPN
6 156 (29.16%) OSPF
7 130 (24.30%) Ethernet
8 109 (20.37%) Wireless
9 108 (20.19%) VoIP
10 105 (19.63%) TCP/IP
11 79 (14.77%) Cisco ASA
12 78 (14.58%) ATM
13 75 (14.02%) Internet
14 71 (13.27%) EIGRP
14 71 (13.27%) DNS
15 68 (12.71%) DHCP
16 63 (11.78%) VLAN
17 62 (11.59%) SAN
18 54 (10.09%) Cisco Nexus
19 53 (9.907%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.925%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.056%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (1.308%) Oracle 10g
4 5 (0.935%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (0.748%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (0.748%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (0.374%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.187%) MySQL
7 1 (0.187%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.187%) MS Access
7 1 (0.187%) DTS
7 1 (0.187%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (0.935%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (0.187%) WebLOAD
General
1 169 (31.59%) Telecoms
2 46 (8.598%) Finance
3 16 (2.991%) Banking
3 16 (2.991%) Retail
4 15 (2.804%) Legal
5 10 (1.869%) Back Office
6 8 (1.495%) German Language
7 7 (1.308%) French Language
7 7 (1.308%) Advertising
8 6 (1.121%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.935%) Billing
9 5 (0.935%) Marketing
10 3 (0.561%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.374%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.374%) Law
11 2 (0.374%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.374%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.374%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.187%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.187%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (35.89%) Network Engineer
2 65 (12.15%) Design Engineer
3 52 (9.720%) Analyst
4 51 (9.533%) Architect
5 46 (8.598%) Project Manager
6 42 (7.850%) Consultant
7 39 (7.290%) Cisco Engineer
8 37 (6.916%) Network Analyst
9 36 (6.729%) Transmission Engineer
10 34 (6.355%) Support Engineer
11 31 (5.794%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 24 (4.486%) IP Engineer
13 23 (4.299%) Network Design Engineer
14 22 (4.112%) Network Architect
15 21 (3.925%) Network Support
16 18 (3.364%) Designer
17 17 (3.178%) Network Manager
18 16 (2.991%) Senior Network Engineer
18 16 (2.991%) Network Consultant
19 14 (2.617%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.299%) Video Conferencing
2 16 (2.991%) Management Information System
2 16 (2.991%) IaaS
3 13 (2.430%) PaaS
4 11 (2.056%) EqualLogic
5 10 (1.869%) Computer Science
6 6 (1.121%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (0.935%) SaaS
7 5 (0.935%) Data Integration
7 5 (0.935%) Clustering
7 5 (0.935%) PMI
8 4 (0.748%) Handset
8 4 (0.748%) e-Health
9 3 (0.561%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.561%) IVR
9 3 (0.561%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.374%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.374%) NHS
10 2 (0.374%) Replication
10 2 (0.374%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 93 (17.38%) Windows
2 49 (9.159%) Linux
3 37 (6.916%) UNIX
4 35 (6.542%) Windows Server 2008
5 31 (5.794%) Windows Server 2003
6 14 (2.617%) Solaris
7 11 (2.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.682%) Windows 7
9 8 (1.495%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.748%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.748%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.561%) CentOS
11 3 (0.561%) Windows XP
11 3 (0.561%) VMS
12 2 (0.374%) SUSE
12 2 (0.374%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.187%) Android
13 1 (0.187%) Windows 2000 Server
13 1 (0.187%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.187%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (17.94%) Project Management
2 62 (11.59%) ITIL
3 55 (10.28%) Network Design
4 52 (9.720%) Load Balancing
5 42 (7.850%) Migration
6 41 (7.664%) PRINCE2
7 34 (6.355%) Network Management
8 30 (5.607%) Capacity Planning
9 25 (4.673%) Change Management
10 23 (4.299%) Service Delivery
11 17 (3.178%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (2.991%) Incident Management
13 14 (2.617%) Network Architecture
13 14 (2.617%) Service Management
13 14 (2.617%) Capacity Management
14 13 (2.430%) E-Commerce
14 13 (2.430%) Business Continuity
15 12 (2.243%) Stakeholder Management
16 10 (1.869%) Risk Management
16 10 (1.869%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 28 (5.234%) SQL
2 5 (0.935%) C
3 4 (0.748%) Perl
4 3 (0.561%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.374%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.374%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.187%) C#
6 1 (0.187%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.187%) VB
6 1 (0.187%) Python
Qualifications
1 245 (45.79%) Cisco Certification
2 168 (31.40%) CCNP
3 121 (22.62%) CCNA
4 60 (11.21%) CCIE
5 39 (7.290%) Security Cleared
6 31 (5.794%) SC Cleared
7 29 (5.421%) Degree
8 27 (5.047%) JNCIP
9 26 (4.860%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (4.112%) CCIP
11 19 (3.551%) MCSE
12 18 (3.364%) CCDP
13 15 (2.804%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 14 (2.617%) JNCIE
15 12 (2.243%) CCSP
16 11 (2.056%) JNCIS
17 10 (1.869%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 10 (1.869%) RHCE
18 9 (1.682%) CISSP
19 8 (1.495%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.551%) SLA
2 9 (1.682%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.495%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.561%) QA
5 2 (0.374%) JSP 440
System Software
1 52 (9.720%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (9.533%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.738%) vSphere
4 12 (2.243%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.056%) Oracle RAC
6 10 (1.869%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.121%) XenApp
8 4 (0.748%) Xen
8 4 (0.748%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.561%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.561%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.561%) UAG
10 2 (0.374%) vCloud
10 2 (0.374%) Forefront TMG
10 2 (0.374%) XenServer
10 2 (0.374%) VMware ESX
10 2 (0.374%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.374%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.374%) MetaFrame
10 2 (0.374%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 25 (4.673%) Cisco CUCM
2 18 (3.364%) OpenView
3 15 (2.804%) CiscoWorks
4 12 (2.243%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.748%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.748%) Backup Exec
5 4 (0.748%) HP NNM
6 3 (0.561%) Cisco IPCC
6 3 (0.561%) Cisco UCCX
6 3 (0.561%) SCCM
7 2 (0.374%) MOM
8 1 (0.187%) Netcool
8 1 (0.187%) Nagios
8 1 (0.187%) SCOM
8 1 (0.187%) Zenoss
8 1 (0.187%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.187%) WSUS
8 1 (0.187%) Plesk
8 1 (0.187%) Sysprep
8 1 (0.187%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 342 (63.93%) Cisco
2 122 (22.80%) Juniper
3 87 (16.26%) Microsoft
4 76 (14.21%) VMware
5 75 (14.02%) HP
6 53 (9.907%) CheckPoint
7 34 (6.355%) Citrix
7 34 (6.355%) F5
8 32 (5.981%) Ericsson
9 31 (5.794%) Nokia
9 31 (5.794%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 18 (3.364%) Riverbed
10 18 (3.364%) BT
10 18 (3.364%) Red Hat
10 18 (3.364%) Oracle
11 17 (3.178%) Huawei
11 17 (3.178%) Aruba
12 16 (2.991%) SolarWinds
12 16 (2.991%) Polycom
13 15 (2.804%) Dell
Juniper Network Engineer
West Midlands
Network Specialist required to assist in 3 separate projects to "future-proof" a high traffic eCommerce platform: Essentials: - Juniper routing, including: Routing-instances; QoS design & implementation; Network Design;...
Computer Futures
Posted: 10 June 2013
WAN Technical Manager
Teesside
The WAN TSM will work closely with the WAN Service Delivery Manager and the WAN acceleration TSM. The right candidate for this role will be expected to work...
Gem Partnership
Rate: From £250 to £500 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Senior Network Engineer
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
The ideal candidate should have experience delivering support to large scale network security solutions and performing end-to-end implementation of these solutions including core and customer side...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cisco Voice Support - CUCM, UCCX, Unity
London
This urgent contract role is working at a customer site in London as part of the Voice team, which is responsible for the management, administration and integrity of...
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP300 - GBP340 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Network Analyst / Engineer
Bradford, Yorkshire
An opportunity has arisen with our Financial Services client to join their experienced Network Services department on a contract basis for 6 months. This is a fantastic opportunity...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £180.00 - £210.00 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
VMware Engineer
Walsall, West Midlands (County)
Roc Search
Posted: 12 June 2013
Senior IP Network Designer
Hampshire
TEKsystems
Rate: £250 - £310 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Senior IP Network Designer
Hampshire
TEKsystems
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Vmware consultant
Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Computer Futures
Posted: 22 May 2013
Infrastructure Design Engineer
Reading, Berkshire
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £30 - £33 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
Infrastructure Design Engineer
Reading, Berkshire
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
VMware Engineer/Technical Consultant
Walsall, West Midlands
Hudson
Rate: £140 - £148 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
2nd Line Support
Newbury, Thames Valley
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £22.00 - £25.00 per hour
Posted: 10 June 2013
3rd Line Support Engineer-Unified Communications
Newbury, Thames Valley
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £24.00 - £27.00 per hour
Posted: 3 June 2013
Product Manager
City of London
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
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