The first table below looks at the demand for VPLS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPLS over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
Rank 515 540 578
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +38
Contract jobs citing VPLS 15 38 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.065% 0.016%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.221% 0.417% 0.127%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 5
Average daily rate £358 £413 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £167 £345 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £430 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £423 £450
% change year-on-year
-26.03% -6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

VPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VPLS Jobs Demand Trend

VPLS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VPLS within the UK.

VPLS Daily Rate Trend

VPLS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPLS within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

VPLS Daily Rate Histogram

VPLS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VPLS within the UK.

VPLS Hourly Rate Trend

VPLS
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPLS within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 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
England +27 15 £358 -13.33%
South East +28 8 £313 -26.47%
London -1 7 £358 -13.33%
Hampshire -4 5 - -
Basingstoke - 5 - -
City of London +2 2 £230 -44.24%
West Sussex - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 £125 -
Reading - 1 £125 -
Crawley - 1 - -

VPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VPLS 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 VPLS.

1 22 (91.67%) Cisco
1 22 (91.67%) MPLS
2 15 (62.50%) OSPF
2 15 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 14 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (54.17%) CCNP
5 11 (45.83%) Telecoms
5 11 (45.83%) VLAN
5 11 (45.83%) WAN
5 11 (45.83%) HSRP
6 10 (41.67%) BGP
7 9 (37.50%) CCNA
7 9 (37.50%) LAN
8 8 (33.33%) IPv6
8 8 (33.33%) Internet
9 7 (29.17%) EIGRP
9 7 (29.17%) Windows
9 7 (29.17%) VMware
10 6 (25.00%) IPsec
10 6 (25.00%) Service Delivery
10 6 (25.00%) Firewall
10 6 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (20.83%) Ethernet
11 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (20.83%) Juniper
11 5 (20.83%) CCIE
11 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
11 5 (20.83%) DNS
11 5 (20.83%) SNMP
12 4 (16.67%) SSL

VPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VPLS 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 VPLS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.167%) HTML
1 1 (4.167%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) IIS
1 1 (4.167%) Apache
1 1 (4.167%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.167%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (4.167%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Office
1 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.167%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 22 (91.67%) MPLS
2 15 (62.50%) OSPF
2 15 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 11 (45.83%) WAN
3 11 (45.83%) VLAN
3 11 (45.83%) HSRP
4 10 (41.67%) BGP
5 9 (37.50%) LAN
6 8 (33.33%) IPv6
6 8 (33.33%) Internet
7 7 (29.17%) EIGRP
8 6 (25.00%) Firewall
8 6 (25.00%) IPsec
8 6 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (20.83%) DNS
9 5 (20.83%) SNMP
9 5 (20.83%) Ethernet
10 4 (16.67%) DHCP
10 4 (16.67%) VPN
10 4 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) MySQL
General
1 11 (45.83%) Telecoms
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.333%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.167%) French Language
5 1 (4.167%) German Language
5 1 (4.167%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Network Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) IP Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (8.333%) Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Server Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Help Desk Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Network Designer
6 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Network Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (4.167%) IVR
2 1 (4.167%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (16.67%) Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.167%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000
5 1 (4.167%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 2 (8.333%) Change Management
3 2 (8.333%) ITIL
3 2 (8.333%) Project Management
3 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.167%) Migration
4 1 (4.167%) Asset Management
4 1 (4.167%) Network Design
4 1 (4.167%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (4.167%) Performance Management
4 1 (4.167%) Network Management
4 1 (4.167%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (4.167%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (4.167%) Python
2 1 (4.167%) C#
2 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.167%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (54.17%) CCNP
3 9 (37.50%) CCNA
4 5 (20.83%) CCIE
5 2 (8.333%) JNCIA
5 2 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.167%) CCVP
6 1 (4.167%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (4.167%) CCDP
6 1 (4.167%) MCP
6 1 (4.167%) HND
6 1 (4.167%) MCSA
6 1 (4.167%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) vSphere
3 2 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.333%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.167%) XenApp
4 1 (4.167%) XenServer
4 1 (4.167%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.167%) vCloud
4 1 (4.167%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Cisco IPCC
1 1 (4.167%) SCCM
1 1 (4.167%) Plesk
Vendors
1 22 (91.67%) Cisco
2 7 (29.17%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Juniper
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 3 (12.50%) Riverbed
6 2 (8.333%) Citrix
6 2 (8.333%) Avaya
6 2 (8.333%) Remedy
7 1 (4.167%) CA
7 1 (4.167%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.167%) HP
7 1 (4.167%) EMC
7 1 (4.167%) Nortel
7 1 (4.167%) 3PAR
7 1 (4.167%) Verint
7 1 (4.167%) Reuters
7 1 (4.167%) Bloomberg
7 1 (4.167%) Ensim
7 1 (4.167%) NetScout