The first table below looks at the demand for VPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPLS 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
Rank 195 216 179
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -37
Permanent jobs citing VPLS 24 6 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.461% 0.097% 0.596%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.465% 0.354% 3.128%
Number of salaries quoted 24 6 23
Average salary £35,000 £40,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.58% +8.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-29.00% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1638 1696 991
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.44% 27.53% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1248 1369 778
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPLS
South East

VPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire VPLS Jobs Demand Trend

VPLS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VPLS across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire VPLS Salary Trend

VPLS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPLS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire VPLS Salary Histogram

VPLS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPLS within the Berkshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +6 9 £35,000 +34.61%
Slough +2 7 £35,000 +34.61%
Bracknell -23 4 £35,000 -46.15%
Maidenhead - 2 £70,000 -
Newbury - 1 £47,500 -
VPLS
South East

VPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VPLS.

1 53 (100.00%) MPLS
2 44 (83.02%) Juniper
3 30 (56.60%) JNCIA
4 29 (54.72%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (49.06%) Cisco
6 25 (47.17%) DSL
6 25 (47.17%) Telecoms
7 23 (43.40%) JNCIS
7 23 (43.40%) JNCIP
8 22 (41.51%) WAN
9 19 (35.85%) Firewall
10 18 (33.96%) VPN
11 15 (28.30%) CCNP
11 15 (28.30%) CCNA
11 15 (28.30%) BGP
12 14 (26.42%) DNS
13 13 (24.53%) ITIL
14 12 (22.64%) Ethernet
15 11 (20.75%) RSVP
15 11 (20.75%) TCP/IP
15 11 (20.75%) Content Management
15 11 (20.75%) VMware
15 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
15 11 (20.75%) SSL
15 11 (20.75%) Windows
15 11 (20.75%) Linux
15 11 (20.75%) DHCP
15 11 (20.75%) VoIP
15 11 (20.75%) WLAN
15 11 (20.75%) Active Directory

VPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VPLS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 53 (100.00%) MPLS
2 25 (47.17%) DSL
3 22 (41.51%) WAN
4 19 (35.85%) Firewall
5 18 (33.96%) VPN
6 15 (28.30%) BGP
7 14 (26.42%) DNS
8 12 (22.64%) Ethernet
9 11 (20.75%) RSVP
9 11 (20.75%) TCP/IP
9 11 (20.75%) SSL
9 11 (20.75%) DHCP
9 11 (20.75%) VoIP
9 11 (20.75%) WLAN
9 11 (20.75%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (18.87%) LAN
11 9 (16.98%) OSPF
11 9 (16.98%) IPsec
12 6 (11.32%) EIGRP
13 5 (9.434%) Extranet
General
1 25 (47.17%) Telecoms
2 5 (9.434%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) NOC Engineer
2 12 (22.64%) Network Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Operations Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Network Operations Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Network Specialist
4 6 (11.32%) Senior Network Specialist
5 5 (9.434%) IP Network Engineer
5 5 (9.434%) IP Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.547%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.660%) Consultant
7 3 (5.660%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.660%) Pre Sales Consultant
8 2 (3.774%) Managed Services Manager
8 2 (3.774%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.774%) Administrator
8 2 (3.774%) Operations Manager
8 2 (3.774%) Senior Network Administrator
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Windows
1 11 (20.75%) Linux
1 11 (20.75%) Windows Server 2003
1 11 (20.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) ITIL
2 11 (20.75%) Content Management
2 11 (20.75%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (11.32%) Network Design
3 6 (11.32%) Validation
4 4 (7.547%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (5.660%) Network Management
6 2 (3.774%) Release Management
6 2 (3.774%) PRINCE2
6 2 (3.774%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 30 (56.60%) JNCIA
2 29 (54.72%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (43.40%) JNCIS
3 23 (43.40%) JNCIP
4 15 (28.30%) CCNP
4 15 (28.30%) CCNA
5 6 (11.32%) CCIP
5 6 (11.32%) CCIE
6 5 (9.434%) Citrix Certification
6 5 (9.434%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.774%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.774%) CCSE
7 2 (3.774%) CCSA
8 1 (1.887%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.434%) SLA
2 2 (3.774%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Active Directory
1 11 (20.75%) XenApp
1 11 (20.75%) XenDesktop
2 5 (9.434%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 44 (83.02%) Juniper
2 26 (49.06%) Cisco
3 11 (20.75%) VMware
3 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.75%) HP
3 11 (20.75%) Citrix
4 3 (5.660%) Blue Coat
4 3 (5.660%) CheckPoint
4 3 (5.660%) Twitter
5 1 (1.887%) F5