The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 22 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.287% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.408% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
71 21 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 20.34% 13.38% 6.612%
Number of salaries quoted 31 20 15
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,400 £25,800 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
Cheshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
1 1 (100.00%) RIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) 802.11
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) SecurID
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM
1 1 (100.00%) DMVPN

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
1 1 (100.00%) RIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) 802.11
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM
1 1 (100.00%) DMVPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry