The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 111 128 96
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -32
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 35 6 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 1.333% 0.284% 1.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.692% 1.622% 6.230%
Number of salaries quoted 28 2 19
Average salary £31,000 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.50% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
455 370 305
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 17.33% 17.54% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 380 294 252
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,450 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
West Yorkshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MPLS across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds MPLS Salary Histogram

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 59 (93.65%) Cisco
2 50 (79.37%) Firewall
3 46 (73.02%) VPN
4 45 (71.43%) WAN
5 37 (58.73%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (57.14%) CheckPoint
6 36 (57.14%) BGP
6 36 (57.14%) LAN
7 35 (55.56%) Juniper
8 32 (50.79%) Cisco ASA
9 27 (42.86%) CCNP
10 26 (41.27%) CCSP
11 22 (34.92%) Network Security
12 21 (33.33%) Wireless
12 21 (33.33%) OSPF
13 20 (31.75%) VLAN
14 18 (28.57%) Telecoms
14 18 (28.57%) VoIP
15 17 (26.98%) Cisco PIX
16 16 (25.40%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (22.22%) FWSM
17 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
18 13 (20.63%) Brocade
18 13 (20.63%) CCNA
19 12 (19.05%) Windows
19 12 (19.05%) DMZ
19 12 (19.05%) PKI
19 12 (19.05%) VMware
20 11 (17.46%) Network Design
20 11 (17.46%) ITIL

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (6.349%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (6.349%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (6.349%) MS Exchange
1 4 (6.349%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (6.349%) Google Apps
2 3 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 50 (79.37%) Firewall
2 46 (73.02%) VPN
3 45 (71.43%) WAN
4 36 (57.14%) BGP
4 36 (57.14%) LAN
5 32 (50.79%) Cisco ASA
6 22 (34.92%) Network Security
7 21 (33.33%) Wireless
7 21 (33.33%) OSPF
8 20 (31.75%) VLAN
9 18 (28.57%) VoIP
10 17 (26.98%) Cisco PIX
11 16 (25.40%) Cisco Nexus
12 14 (22.22%) FWSM
13 12 (19.05%) DMZ
14 10 (15.87%) EIGRP
15 8 (12.70%) Internet
16 5 (7.937%) DSL
16 5 (7.937%) Ethernet
16 5 (7.937%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (6.349%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 6 (9.524%) Finance
3 1 (1.587%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 14 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
3 12 (19.05%) Architect
4 10 (15.87%) Security Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Network Analyst
5 9 (14.29%) Security Analyst
5 9 (14.29%) Network Security Analyst
5 9 (14.29%) Analyst
6 8 (12.70%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (7.937%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.937%) Data Architect
7 5 (7.937%) Data Centre Architect
8 4 (6.349%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (6.349%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (6.349%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (6.349%) IT Administrator
8 4 (6.349%) 3rd Line Technical Support
8 4 (6.349%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (6.349%) Technical Support
8 4 (6.349%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) PKI
2 4 (6.349%) Fat Client
2 4 (6.349%) Blackberry
2 4 (6.349%) Thin Client
3 2 (3.175%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.05%) Windows
2 8 (12.70%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (12.70%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (6.349%) Windows 8
3 4 (6.349%) Windows XP
4 2 (3.175%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.46%) Network Design
1 11 (17.46%) ITIL
2 9 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 6 (9.524%) Load Balancing
3 6 (9.524%) Project Management
4 5 (7.937%) PRINCE2
4 5 (7.937%) Matrix Management
5 4 (6.349%) Mobile Device Management
5 4 (6.349%) ERP
6 3 (4.762%) Data Security
6 3 (4.762%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (4.762%) Change Control
6 3 (4.762%) Cyber Security
6 3 (4.762%) Incident Management
7 2 (3.175%) B2B
7 2 (3.175%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.349%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (58.73%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (42.86%) CCNP
3 26 (41.27%) CCSP
4 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 13 (20.63%) CCNA
6 9 (14.29%) CCIE
7 7 (11.11%) CCSA
8 5 (7.937%) CCDE
9 2 (3.175%) CCDP
9 2 (3.175%) CCIP
9 2 (3.175%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.587%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.524%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.762%) SLA
3 2 (3.175%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Active Directory
1 8 (12.70%) Terminal Services
1 8 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (12.70%) Forefront TMG
1 8 (12.70%) UAG
2 4 (6.349%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.349%) Hyper-V
2 4 (6.349%) XenApp
2 4 (6.349%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (6.349%) SCCM
2 2 (3.175%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (3.175%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 59 (93.65%) Cisco
2 36 (57.14%) CheckPoint
3 35 (55.56%) Juniper
4 13 (20.63%) Brocade
5 12 (19.05%) VMware
6 10 (15.87%) HP
7 9 (14.29%) Avaya
8 8 (12.70%) Citrix
9 7 (11.11%) F5
9 7 (11.11%) Riverbed
10 6 (9.524%) ProCurve
11 5 (7.937%) BT
11 5 (7.937%) Nortel
12 4 (6.349%) Google
12 4 (6.349%) NETGEAR
12 4 (6.349%) EMC
13 3 (4.762%) Microsoft
14 2 (3.175%) SolarWinds
14 2 (3.175%) Infoblox
15 1 (1.587%) Nokia
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