MPLS Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 85 102 88
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -14
Contract jobs citing MPLS 10 1 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.612% 0.045% 0.740%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.184% 0.346% 4.965%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £104 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £42.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
-45.29% +36.00%
Search 9 MPLS jobs in the West Midlands
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 239 289 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 14.64% 12.89% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 104 117
Average daily rate £283 £265 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.60% -14.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £142 £140 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 38 44
Average hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.40 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
MPLS
England

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands MPLS Daily Rate Trend

MPLS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham - 6 - -
Coventry - 4 £104 -
MPLS
England

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 17 (73.91%) Cisco
2 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) Firewall
3 12 (52.17%) Windows
4 10 (43.48%) MS Office
5 9 (39.13%) Project Management
5 9 (39.13%) Telecoms
6 8 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (30.43%) WAN
7 7 (30.43%) CCNA
7 7 (30.43%) Degree
7 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
8 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (26.09%) Network Management
8 6 (26.09%) Juniper
8 6 (26.09%) LAN
8 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (26.09%) VMware
9 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
9 5 (21.74%) UNIX
9 5 (21.74%) ITIL
9 5 (21.74%) Linux
9 5 (21.74%) SNMP
9 5 (21.74%) TACACS
9 5 (21.74%) F5
10 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
10 4 (17.39%) CCNP

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (17.39%) MS Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.04%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 10 (43.48%) MS Office
2 3 (13.04%) MS Visio
2 3 (13.04%) MS Project
3 2 (8.696%) S-PLUS
4 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) Firewall
2 7 (30.43%) WAN
3 6 (26.09%) LAN
4 5 (21.74%) SNMP
4 5 (21.74%) TACACS
5 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
6 3 (13.04%) DNS
6 3 (13.04%) VoIP
6 3 (13.04%) DHCP
7 2 (8.696%) VLAN
7 2 (8.696%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (8.696%) Network Security
7 2 (8.696%) iSCSI
7 2 (8.696%) VPN
7 2 (8.696%) SAN
7 2 (8.696%) SDH
7 2 (8.696%) DSL
8 1 (4.348%) IPsec
8 1 (4.348%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 9 (39.13%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.04%) German Language
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Network Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Implementation Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) NOC Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Coordinator
4 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (8.696%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Network Project Manager
5 2 (8.696%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (8.696%) Network Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Project Coordinator
5 2 (8.696%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Desktop Support
6 1 (4.348%) Junior
6 1 (4.348%) Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) Server Support
6 1 (4.348%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.696%) EqualLogic
4 1 (4.348%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (21.74%) UNIX
3 5 (21.74%) Linux
4 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.348%) Windows 2000
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Vista
4 1 (4.348%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Project Management
2 6 (26.09%) Network Management
3 5 (21.74%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) Six Sigma
5 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.696%) Network Planning
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (30.43%) CCNA
2 7 (30.43%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) CCNP
3 4 (17.39%) GCSC
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (13.04%) MCP
4 3 (13.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.348%) VCP4
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.04%) vSphere
3 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.348%) ISA Server
4 1 (4.348%) Terminal Services
4 1 (4.348%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.348%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (4.348%) Backup Exec
1 1 (4.348%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Cisco
2 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
3 6 (26.09%) Juniper
3 6 (26.09%) VMware
4 5 (21.74%) F5
5 2 (8.696%) Veeam
5 2 (8.696%) WatchGuard
5 2 (8.696%) SonicWALL
5 2 (8.696%) HP
5 2 (8.696%) Dell
6 1 (4.348%) Symantec
6 1 (4.348%) Citrix
6 1 (4.348%) NetApp
6 1 (4.348%) IBM
6 1 (4.348%) SolarWinds
Juniper Network Engineer - 2 months+ - Birmingham
Birmingham, West Midlands
Network Specialist required to assist in 3 seperate projects to "future-proof" a high traffic eCommerce platform: Essentials: - Juniper routing, including: Routing-instances; QoS design & implementation; Network Designl...
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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: 15 May 2013
VMware Engineer - 3+ months
West Midlands
Key skills: - VMware 4/5, VMware site recovery manager, Veeam backups - SAN (HP, MSA, EVA) installations and configuration - Cisco Routers and Switches, ASA - VLANS layers 2/3 - MPLS,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
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