The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 245 271 346
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +75
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 486 494 332
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 1.084% 0.930% 0.553%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.981% 5.672% 3.923%
Number of salaries quoted 387 441 306
Average salary £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.99% -8.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £33,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
8126 8710 8463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 18.13% 16.40% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6716 7342 7104
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
England

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MPLS across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -19 153 £50,000 -4.76% 15
Docklands, London +10 13 £65,000 +52.94%
Croydon - 10 £37,500 - 1
Bromley - 5 £50,000 -
Wimbledon - 4 £45,000 -
Uxbridge - 2 £46,250 -
Brentford - 2 - -
Canary Wharf +3 1 - -
Dagenham - 1 £50,000 -
Feltham - 1 £45,000 -
MPLS
England

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the 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.

1 707 (80.07%) Cisco
2 502 (56.85%) Cisco Certification
3 472 (53.45%) WAN
4 425 (48.13%) Firewall
5 408 (46.21%) BGP
6 385 (43.60%) OSPF
7 356 (40.32%) VPN
8 335 (37.94%) Juniper
9 326 (36.92%) LAN
10 307 (34.77%) CCNP
11 237 (26.84%) CCNA
11 237 (26.84%) Telecoms
12 234 (26.50%) TCP/IP
13 219 (24.80%) CCIE
14 218 (24.69%) Finance
15 205 (23.22%) VoIP
16 204 (23.10%) EIGRP
17 201 (22.76%) Wireless
18 194 (21.97%) Windows
19 190 (21.52%) Ethernet
20 178 (20.16%) CheckPoint
21 167 (18.91%) DNS
22 161 (18.23%) Network Security
23 157 (17.78%) VMware
24 155 (17.55%) Cisco ASA
25 145 (16.42%) Microsoft
26 140 (15.86%) ITIL
27 138 (15.63%) VLAN
28 137 (15.52%) Linux
29 131 (14.84%) Cisco Nexus

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the 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 12 (1.359%) CSS
2 11 (1.246%) DCOM
3 9 (1.019%) ASP
4 7 (0.793%) Silverlight
5 6 (0.680%) Middleware
6 5 (0.566%) XMPP
7 4 (0.453%) MCollective
7 4 (0.453%) HTML
8 2 (0.227%) COM
9 1 (0.113%) .NET
9 1 (0.113%) LAMP
9 1 (0.113%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.113%) EDI
9 1 (0.113%) SAP ALE
Application Platforms
1 57 (6.455%) MS Exchange
2 34 (3.851%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 26 (2.945%) Lync
4 15 (1.699%) IIS
5 14 (1.586%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (1.246%) Exchange Server 2003
7 10 (1.133%) SharePoint
8 9 (1.019%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.340%) GroupWise
10 2 (0.227%) Apache
10 2 (0.227%) Office Communications Server
11 1 (0.113%) CMS
Applications
1 84 (9.513%) MS Excel
2 57 (6.455%) MS Visio
3 48 (5.436%) MS Office
4 28 (3.171%) MS PowerPoint
5 5 (0.566%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.113%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.113%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 472 (53.45%) WAN
2 425 (48.13%) Firewall
3 408 (46.21%) BGP
4 385 (43.60%) OSPF
5 356 (40.32%) VPN
6 326 (36.92%) LAN
7 234 (26.50%) TCP/IP
8 205 (23.22%) VoIP
9 204 (23.10%) EIGRP
10 201 (22.76%) Wireless
11 190 (21.52%) Ethernet
12 167 (18.91%) DNS
13 161 (18.23%) Network Security
14 155 (17.55%) Cisco ASA
15 138 (15.63%) VLAN
16 131 (14.84%) Cisco Nexus
17 115 (13.02%) VPLS
18 113 (12.80%) Internet
19 111 (12.57%) SNMP
20 91 (10.31%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.210%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.831%) MySQL
3 18 (2.039%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.113%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.113%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.113%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (0.113%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (0.906%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 237 (26.84%) Telecoms
2 218 (24.69%) Finance
3 58 (6.569%) Banking
4 37 (4.190%) Law
5 24 (2.718%) Financial Institution
6 21 (2.378%) Marketing
7 20 (2.265%) Investment Banking
8 16 (1.812%) Electronics
9 9 (1.019%) Retail
9 9 (1.019%) Billing
10 8 (0.906%) Legal
11 6 (0.680%) Local Government
12 5 (0.566%) Games
13 4 (0.453%) Advertising
13 4 (0.453%) German Language
14 3 (0.340%) French Language
14 3 (0.340%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.340%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.227%) Portuguese Language
15 2 (0.227%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 400 (45.30%) Network Engineer
2 103 (11.66%) Support Engineer
3 87 (9.853%) Consultant
4 83 (9.400%) Senior Network Engineer
5 82 (9.287%) Network Support
6 70 (7.928%) Analyst
7 69 (7.814%) Cisco Engineer
8 61 (6.908%) Network Support Engineer
9 53 (6.002%) Architect
10 47 (5.323%) Network Analyst
10 47 (5.323%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 47 (5.323%) IP Engineer
11 38 (4.304%) IP Network Engineer
12 33 (3.737%) Senior Network Support
12 33 (3.737%) Design Engineer
13 31 (3.511%) Voice Engineer
14 30 (3.398%) 2nd Line Support
14 30 (3.398%) NOC Engineer
15 28 (3.171%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 27 (3.058%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.889%) Video Conferencing
2 40 (4.530%) Computer Science
3 27 (3.058%) Blackberry
4 23 (2.605%) Replication
5 18 (2.039%) IaaS
6 16 (1.812%) Mathematics
6 16 (1.812%) Physics
7 15 (1.699%) Streaming Video
8 10 (1.133%) PMI
8 10 (1.133%) Economics
9 9 (1.019%) Video on Demand
10 8 (0.906%) Open Source
10 8 (0.906%) Wiki
10 8 (0.906%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.793%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (0.680%) IPTV
12 6 (0.680%) e-Health
13 5 (0.566%) MPEG
14 4 (0.453%) iSeries
14 4 (0.453%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 194 (21.97%) Windows
2 137 (15.52%) Linux
3 107 (12.12%) Windows Server 2003
4 97 (10.99%) Windows Server 2008
5 65 (7.361%) UNIX
6 33 (3.737%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (2.945%) Solaris
8 20 (2.265%) Windows 7
9 18 (2.039%) Debian
9 18 (2.039%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (1.699%) Windows XP
11 12 (1.359%) Windows 2000
12 9 (1.019%) Windows NT
13 5 (0.566%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.453%) Android
15 3 (0.340%) Windows Mobile
15 3 (0.340%) NetWare
16 2 (0.227%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.227%) AIX
16 2 (0.227%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (15.86%) ITIL
2 130 (14.72%) Network Design
3 95 (10.76%) Load Balancing
4 85 (9.626%) Project Management
5 69 (7.814%) Service Delivery
6 64 (7.248%) Network Management
7 47 (5.323%) Migration
8 46 (5.210%) Network Architecture
9 41 (4.643%) PRINCE2
10 40 (4.530%) Service Management
11 38 (4.304%) Change Management
12 24 (2.718%) Performance Management
13 23 (2.605%) E-Commerce
14 21 (2.378%) Disaster Recovery
14 21 (2.378%) Data Management
14 21 (2.378%) Problem Management
15 20 (2.265%) Workflow
16 19 (2.152%) Product Management
17 14 (1.586%) Incident Management
18 13 (1.472%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 45 (5.096%) SQL
2 23 (2.605%) Perl
3 22 (2.492%) Python
4 15 (1.699%) PowerShell
4 15 (1.699%) Bash shell
5 9 (1.019%) VBScript
6 6 (0.680%) Shell Script
6 6 (0.680%) Java
7 5 (0.566%) C#
8 4 (0.453%) PHP
8 4 (0.453%) Ruby
9 1 (0.113%) C
9 1 (0.113%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 502 (56.85%) Cisco Certification
2 307 (34.77%) CCNP
3 237 (26.84%) CCNA
4 219 (24.80%) CCIE
5 127 (14.38%) Degree
6 120 (13.59%) CCIP
7 75 (8.494%) JNCIA
8 73 (8.267%) JNCIS
8 73 (8.267%) CCDP
9 56 (6.342%) JNCIP
10 52 (5.889%) JNCIE
11 45 (5.096%) CCSP
12 42 (4.757%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (4.077%) MCSE
14 33 (3.737%) CCVP
15 32 (3.624%) Security Cleared
16 29 (3.284%) MCITP
17 26 (2.945%) CCDA
18 23 (2.605%) CISSP
18 23 (2.605%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.154%) SLA
2 25 (2.831%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.340%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.113%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.113%) QA
System Software
1 103 (11.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 77 (8.720%) Active Directory
3 55 (6.229%) vSphere
4 41 (4.643%) Hyper-V
5 19 (2.152%) NFS
6 15 (1.699%) VMware ESX
7 13 (1.472%) Terminal Services
8 10 (1.133%) XenServer
9 8 (0.906%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.906%) ProxySG
10 7 (0.793%) NLBS
11 6 (0.680%) ISA Server
12 5 (0.566%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.566%) XenApp
13 1 (0.113%) vCloud
13 1 (0.113%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.113%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.113%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.113%) Xen
Systems Management
1 41 (4.643%) FortiGate
2 30 (3.398%) Cisco UCCX
3 28 (3.171%) CiscoWorks
4 23 (2.605%) WSUS
5 19 (2.152%) Cisco CUCM
6 17 (1.925%) WhatsUp Gold
7 16 (1.812%) Backup Exec
8 15 (1.699%) NetBackup
9 12 (1.359%) Netcool
10 10 (1.133%) Norton AntiVirus
10 10 (1.133%) Cisco UCCE
11 9 (1.019%) Sysprep
12 8 (0.906%) ServiceCenter
13 6 (0.680%) Puppet
14 4 (0.453%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.340%) Cacti
15 3 (0.340%) Cisco IPCC
15 3 (0.340%) Nagios
15 3 (0.340%) Tivoli
16 2 (0.227%) MOM
Vendors
1 707 (80.07%) Cisco
2 335 (37.94%) Juniper
3 178 (20.16%) CheckPoint
4 157 (17.78%) VMware
5 145 (16.42%) Microsoft
6 130 (14.72%) F5
7 77 (8.720%) HP
8 76 (8.607%) Citrix
9 55 (6.229%) SolarWinds
10 51 (5.776%) Fortinet
11 46 (5.210%) Brocade
12 37 (4.190%) Polycom
13 36 (4.077%) Foundry
13 36 (4.077%) Oracle
14 32 (3.624%) EMC
14 32 (3.624%) Riverbed
15 31 (3.511%) Remedy
16 28 (3.171%) McAfee
17 21 (2.378%) Veritas
17 21 (2.378%) Dell
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