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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
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
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
120 82 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 19.32% 16.47% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 104 61 60
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £21,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
South West

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 3 (100.00%) VBScript
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Avaya
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Apple
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) VBScript
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Avaya
1 3 (100.00%) Apple
1 3 (100.00%) VMware