The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 25 36 61
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +25
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 10 5 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 5.263% 1.792% 0.845%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.51% 6.250% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 5
Average salary £65,000 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+52.94% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £31,900 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £77,750 £47,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Docklands, London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
74 80 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 38.95% 28.67% 8.446%
Number of salaries quoted 62 72 28
Average salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,400 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £79,250 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
London

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MPLS across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Docklands, London MPLS Salary Histogram

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, London 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 11 (64.71%) Network Design
1 11 (64.71%) Product Management
2 10 (58.82%) Degree
2 10 (58.82%) WAN
2 10 (58.82%) TCP/IP
2 10 (58.82%) Cisco
3 9 (52.94%) LAN
3 9 (52.94%) Linux
3 9 (52.94%) DWDM
3 9 (52.94%) Load Balancing
4 8 (47.06%) SDH
4 8 (47.06%) Windows
4 8 (47.06%) VPN
4 8 (47.06%) ATM
5 7 (41.18%) Ethernet
5 7 (41.18%) NFS
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
5 7 (41.18%) SAN
5 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (41.18%) MySQL
5 7 (41.18%) Oracle
5 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
5 7 (41.18%) VoIP
5 7 (41.18%) SS7
5 7 (41.18%) Q.931
5 7 (41.18%) H.323
5 7 (41.18%) Migration
5 7 (41.18%) Streaming Video
5 7 (41.18%) Debian
5 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, London 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 (5.882%) DCOM
1 1 (5.882%) CSS
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) WAN
1 10 (58.82%) TCP/IP
2 9 (52.94%) LAN
2 9 (52.94%) DWDM
3 8 (47.06%) SDH
3 8 (47.06%) VPN
3 8 (47.06%) ATM
4 7 (41.18%) Ethernet
4 7 (41.18%) SAN
4 7 (41.18%) VoIP
4 7 (41.18%) SS7
4 7 (41.18%) Q.931
4 7 (41.18%) H.323
4 7 (41.18%) VLAN
4 7 (41.18%) iSCSI
4 7 (41.18%) xDSL
4 7 (41.18%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (17.65%) Firewall
6 2 (11.76%) OSPF
6 2 (11.76%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) MySQL
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
1 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (41.18%) Marketing
1 7 (41.18%) Electronics
1 7 (41.18%) Telecoms
1 7 (41.18%) Billing
2 1 (5.882%) Banking
2 1 (5.882%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Advertising
2 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Voice Engineer
1 7 (41.18%) Sales Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Solutions Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Streaming Video
1 7 (41.18%) Replication
1 7 (41.18%) Mathematics
1 7 (41.18%) Physics
2 1 (5.882%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (41.18%) Debian
3 7 (41.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.882%) UNIX
4 1 (5.882%) Windows NT
4 1 (5.882%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Network Design
1 11 (64.71%) Product Management
2 9 (52.94%) Load Balancing
3 7 (41.18%) Migration
3 7 (41.18%) Data Management
4 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.882%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) VBScript
1 3 (17.65%) Perl
1 3 (17.65%) Bash shell
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) CCIE
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.882%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) NFS
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (41.18%) vSphere
1 7 (41.18%) Hyper-V
2 4 (23.53%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Cisco
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 7 (41.18%) VMware
3 4 (23.53%) Mercator
3 4 (23.53%) Veritas
4 2 (11.76%) F5
4 2 (11.76%) Juniper
5 1 (5.882%) Sun
5 1 (5.882%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.882%) Brocade