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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 78 115 98
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -17
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 4 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.417% 0.215% 0.157%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.778% 1.596% 1.010%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 2
Average salary £33,250 £37,500 £39,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.33% -4.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,050 £35,500 £38,650
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £39,500 £39,850
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Communications & Networking
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
225 188 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 23.44% 13.46% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 176 152 172
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MPLS across the Essex region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Essex MPLS Salary Histogram

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 20 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
Epping - 1 £20,500 -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £29,000 -
MPLS
East of England

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) LAN
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) Citrix
1 5 (83.33%) VLAN
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 4 (66.67%) SCOM
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Lync
2 4 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 4 (66.67%) MCTS
2 4 (66.67%) MCITP
2 4 (66.67%) Smartphone
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
4 1 (16.67%) VPLS
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) WatchGuard

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (66.67%) Lync
2 4 (66.67%) IIS
2 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) LAN
1 5 (83.33%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) VPLS
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) WLAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 4 (66.67%) Smartphone
2 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) MCTS
1 4 (66.67%) MCITP
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) XenApp
2 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
1 4 (66.67%) SCOM
2 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Citrix
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) WatchGuard
2 1 (16.67%) ProCurve