The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 137 136 139
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +3
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 2 15 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.078% 0.522% 0.200%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.447% 2.857% 0.954%
Number of salaries quoted 1 15 6
Average salary £27,500 £44,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.50% +49.15%
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
447 525 629
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 17.41% 18.25% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 356 445 542
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
East of England

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge -2 2 £27,500 -27.63%
MPLS
East of England

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (87.50%) CCNP
2 6 (75.00%) WAN
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (50.00%) Riverbed
4 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 4 (50.00%) Wireless
5 3 (37.50%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (37.50%) VMware
5 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
5 3 (37.50%) FortiGate
6 2 (25.00%) Change Control
6 2 (25.00%) Polycom
6 2 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) JNCIA
6 2 (25.00%) JNCIS
6 2 (25.00%) JNCIP
6 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (25.00%) Juniper
6 2 (25.00%) OSPF
6 2 (25.00%) BGP
6 2 (25.00%) CCIE
6 2 (25.00%) CCNA
6 2 (25.00%) LAN

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (50.00%) VPN
3 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 4 (50.00%) Wireless
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (25.00%) OSPF
5 2 (25.00%) BGP
5 2 (25.00%) LAN
6 1 (12.50%) VoIP
6 1 (12.50%) DHCP
6 1 (12.50%) DNS
6 1 (12.50%) DSL
6 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
6 1 (12.50%) Internet
6 1 (12.50%) IPsec
6 1 (12.50%) VPLS
6 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
General
1 1 (12.50%) Back Office
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Network Support
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Design Authority
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (87.50%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) JNCIA
2 2 (25.00%) JNCIS
2 2 (25.00%) JNCIP
2 2 (25.00%) CCIE
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) CCDP
3 1 (12.50%) CCIP
3 1 (12.50%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GAMP
1 1 (12.50%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Riverbed
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 2 (25.00%) Polycom
4 2 (25.00%) Juniper
5 1 (12.50%) HP
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix
5 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (12.50%) ProCurve
5 1 (12.50%) Twitter
5 1 (12.50%) F5