The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 120 124 118
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -6
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 2 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.108% 0.200% 0.187%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.587% 1.087% 0.855%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 4
Average salary £27,500 £38,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.63% +28.81%
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
341 368 468
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 18.45% 18.41% 21.87%
Number of salaries quoted 259 302 415
Average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,300 £30,950 £29,800
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
MPLS
Cambridgeshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge MPLS Jobs Demand Trend

MPLS
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MPLS.

1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) CCNP
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (71.43%) WAN
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (57.14%) Wireless
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (57.14%) Riverbed
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (42.86%) FortiGate
5 2 (28.57%) Polycom
5 2 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (28.57%) Change Control
5 2 (28.57%) Juniper
5 2 (28.57%) VMware
5 2 (28.57%) JNCIA
5 2 (28.57%) JNCIS
5 2 (28.57%) JNCIP
5 2 (28.57%) CCIE
5 2 (28.57%) OSPF
5 2 (28.57%) BGP
6 1 (14.29%) DSL
6 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
6 1 (14.29%) Project Management

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) WAN
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (57.14%) Wireless
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (28.57%) OSPF
4 2 (28.57%) BGP
5 1 (14.29%) DSL
5 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
5 1 (14.29%) LAN
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) VPLS
5 1 (14.29%) Network Security
5 1 (14.29%) IPsec
5 1 (14.29%) BIG-IP
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 1 (14.29%) German Language
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Network Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) NOC Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Design Authority
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) CCNP
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) JNCIA
2 2 (28.57%) JNCIS
2 2 (28.57%) JNCIP
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIE
3 1 (14.29%) CCIP
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GAMP
1 1 (14.29%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Riverbed
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Polycom
3 2 (28.57%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) ProCurve
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Twitter
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