The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 84 90 78
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -12
Contract jobs citing MPLS 4 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.319% 0.064% 0.089%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.732% 0.510% 1.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £325 £350 £185
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +89.18%
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 £42.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
-45.29% +36.00%
All Communications & Networking
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
231 196 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 18.41% 12.52% 8.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 100 33
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £188 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £420 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 18
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £23.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -35.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £11.53
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £34.00 £31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
MPLS
Yorkshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds -4 4 £325 -7.14%
MPLS
Yorkshire

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
3 4 (50.00%) VPN
3 4 (50.00%) CCNP
3 4 (50.00%) CCNA
3 4 (50.00%) OSPF
3 4 (50.00%) BGP
3 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 4 (50.00%) LAN
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (25.00%) CCSA
4 2 (25.00%) HP
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (25.00%) SAN
4 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) ADSL
4 2 (25.00%) ATM
4 2 (25.00%) ISDN
4 2 (25.00%) Veeam
4 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (25.00%) FWSM
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (25.00%) HSRP

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) OSPF
2 4 (50.00%) BGP
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (25.00%) ADSL
3 2 (25.00%) ATM
3 2 (25.00%) ISDN
3 2 (25.00%) FWSM
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (25.00%) HSRP
3 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) CCNP
2 4 (50.00%) CCNA
3 2 (25.00%) CCSA
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CCSE
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (12.50%) SonicWALL
3 1 (12.50%) Dell