The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 17 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 Farnborough region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 35 38 28
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -10
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 3 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 1.639% 0.450% 0.826%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.677% 1.389% 6.667%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
Average salary £41,000 £55,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.45% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Communications & Networking
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
31 72 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 16.94% 32.43% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 30 67 15
Average salary £30,000 £41,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.82% -3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £29,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
MPLS
Hampshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) Ethernet
3 4 (57.14%) BGP
3 4 (57.14%) Mitel
3 4 (57.14%) Network Management
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (28.57%) Juniper
5 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
5 2 (28.57%) CCNP
5 2 (28.57%) Blue Coat
5 2 (28.57%) Finjan
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (14.29%) WCF
6 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 1 (14.29%) MVC
6 1 (14.29%) CCNA
6 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
6 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (14.29%) VPN
6 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
6 1 (14.29%) C#
6 1 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (14.29%) .NET

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Ethernet
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Network Management
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) CCNP
5 1 (14.29%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Mitel
3 2 (28.57%) Blue Coat
3 2 (28.57%) Finjan
3 2 (28.57%) Juniper
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint