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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
Rank 530 563 610
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +47
Permanent jobs citing VPLS 79 77 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.181% 0.143% 0.045%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.994% 0.863% 0.331%
Number of salaries quoted 63 68 26
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £42,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £65,000 £58,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7948 8921 7850
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 18.22% 16.58% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6555 7583 6622
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
VPLS
England

VPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London VPLS Jobs Demand Trend

VPLS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VPLS across the London region.

London VPLS Salary Trend

VPLS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPLS across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London VPLS Salary Histogram

VPLS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPLS within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London +4 34 £35,000 -33.33%
Bromley - 1 £75,000 -
VPLS
England

VPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing VPLS 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 VPLS.

1 127 (95.49%) MPLS
2 102 (76.69%) Cisco
3 94 (70.68%) Juniper
4 87 (65.41%) Telecoms
5 61 (45.86%) Cisco Certification
6 56 (42.11%) Ethernet
7 55 (41.35%) VPN
7 55 (41.35%) Firewall
7 55 (41.35%) BGP
8 53 (39.85%) CCNA
9 52 (39.10%) OSPF
10 49 (36.84%) WAN
11 47 (35.34%) LAN
12 37 (27.82%) DNS
13 32 (24.06%) Internet
14 30 (22.56%) TCP/IP
14 30 (22.56%) JNCIA
15 29 (21.80%) Windows
15 29 (21.80%) VMware
16 28 (21.05%) VoIP
17 26 (19.55%) ITIL
17 26 (19.55%) CCNP
17 26 (19.55%) Service Delivery
18 24 (18.05%) Finance
18 24 (18.05%) RSVP
19 22 (16.54%) SDH
20 21 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
20 21 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
21 20 (15.04%) JNCIS
21 20 (15.04%) JNCIP

VPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing VPLS 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 VPLS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.774%) MS Exchange
2 8 (6.015%) Lync
3 7 (5.263%) IIS
3 7 (5.263%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.759%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (3.759%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.752%) CMS
5 1 (0.752%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.752%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (11.28%) MS Visio
2 8 (6.015%) MS Excel
3 6 (4.511%) MS Office
3 6 (4.511%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 127 (95.49%) MPLS
2 56 (42.11%) Ethernet
3 55 (41.35%) VPN
3 55 (41.35%) BGP
3 55 (41.35%) Firewall
4 52 (39.10%) OSPF
5 49 (36.84%) WAN
6 47 (35.34%) LAN
7 37 (27.82%) DNS
8 32 (24.06%) Internet
9 30 (22.56%) TCP/IP
10 28 (21.05%) VoIP
11 24 (18.05%) RSVP
12 22 (16.54%) SDH
13 18 (13.53%) EIGRP
13 18 (13.53%) SAN
14 16 (12.03%) SNMP
15 15 (11.28%) DHCP
15 15 (11.28%) IPv6
16 14 (10.53%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.767%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.752%) MySQL
General
1 87 (65.41%) Telecoms
2 24 (18.05%) Finance
3 6 (4.511%) Electronics
4 4 (3.008%) Banking
5 1 (0.752%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.752%) Marketing
5 1 (0.752%) Advertising
5 1 (0.752%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (37.59%) Network Engineer
2 19 (14.29%) NOC Engineer
3 14 (10.53%) Consultant
4 13 (9.774%) Pre Sales Consultant
5 9 (6.767%) Sales Engineer
5 9 (6.767%) Pre Sales Engineer
6 8 (6.015%) Network Operations Engineer
6 8 (6.015%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (4.511%) IP Engineer
7 6 (4.511%) Support Engineer
7 6 (4.511%) Design Engineer
8 5 (3.759%) Service Manager
8 5 (3.759%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.759%) Services Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.759%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.759%) Technical Services Manager
8 5 (3.759%) Technical Manager
8 5 (3.759%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.008%) Deployment Engineer
9 4 (3.008%) Sales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.519%) Blackberry
2 8 (6.015%) Wiki
3 6 (4.511%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (4.511%) Mathematics
3 6 (4.511%) Physics
3 6 (4.511%) Streaming Video
3 6 (4.511%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (3.759%) IaaS
4 5 (3.759%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.759%) Replication
5 3 (2.256%) EqualLogic
6 1 (0.752%) Social Media
6 1 (0.752%) Clustering
6 1 (0.752%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.752%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.80%) Windows
2 21 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
2 21 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (9.774%) Linux
4 5 (3.759%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.752%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (19.55%) ITIL
1 26 (19.55%) Service Delivery
2 20 (15.04%) Project Management
3 15 (11.28%) Network Design
4 12 (9.023%) Network Architecture
5 8 (6.015%) Migration
5 8 (6.015%) ERP
6 7 (5.263%) PRINCE2
6 7 (5.263%) Network Management
7 6 (4.511%) CRM
7 6 (4.511%) Information Security
8 5 (3.759%) High Availability
9 4 (3.008%) Service Management
10 3 (2.256%) Business Development
10 3 (2.256%) Load Balancing
11 2 (1.504%) Business Continuity
11 2 (1.504%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (1.504%) B2B
12 1 (0.752%) ITSM
12 1 (0.752%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.015%) SQL
2 2 (1.504%) Perl
3 1 (0.752%) Tcl
3 1 (0.752%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 61 (45.86%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (39.85%) CCNA
3 30 (22.56%) JNCIA
4 26 (19.55%) CCNP
5 20 (15.04%) JNCIS
5 20 (15.04%) JNCIP
6 14 (10.53%) Degree
7 10 (7.519%) CCDA
8 9 (6.767%) CCDP
9 7 (5.263%) CCIE
9 7 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (5.263%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (5.263%) Security Cleared
10 6 (4.511%) MCITP
10 6 (4.511%) MCSE
11 5 (3.759%) CCIP
11 5 (3.759%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.504%) SC Cleared
13 1 (0.752%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.752%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.53%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (12.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.53%) vSphere
3 12 (9.023%) Hyper-V
4 11 (8.271%) VMware ESX
5 7 (5.263%) XenApp
6 6 (4.511%) XenServer
6 6 (4.511%) XenDesktop
6 6 (4.511%) Terminal Services
6 6 (4.511%) vCloud
7 5 (3.759%) NFS
7 5 (3.759%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.752%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.752%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (6.767%) ServiceCenter
2 5 (3.759%) Backup Exec
2 5 (3.759%) WSUS
3 3 (2.256%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (0.752%) Plesk
Vendors
1 102 (76.69%) Cisco
2 94 (70.68%) Juniper
3 29 (21.80%) VMware
4 20 (15.04%) Microsoft
5 19 (14.29%) HP
6 11 (8.271%) CheckPoint
7 10 (7.519%) Brocade
7 10 (7.519%) Foundry
8 9 (6.767%) Nimsoft
9 7 (5.263%) F5
9 7 (5.263%) Riverbed
9 7 (5.263%) Polycom
9 7 (5.263%) EMC
9 7 (5.263%) Citrix
10 6 (4.511%) Veritas
10 6 (4.511%) Tandberg
10 6 (4.511%) Siebel
10 6 (4.511%) Infoblox
11 5 (3.759%) Draytek
11 5 (3.759%) NETGEAR
London
This successful Network Systems Integrator that specialise in IP Telephony and Unified Communications solutions are going through a period of growth... You will be responsible for designing technical...
Sanderson
Salary: £70000 - £75000 per annum + 20% Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Your role would be to:- Work with the sales team to develop client proposals and IT solutions- Participate in meetings with clients to determine requirements:- Work with clients...
Joanne Senior
Salary: £50k - 60k per year + £20K bonus
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
This successful Network Systems Integrator that specialise in IP Telephony and Unified Communications solutions are going through a period of growth... You will be responsible for designing technical...
DCL Search & Selection
Salary: £55k - 60k per year + £20,000 Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Our client is an independent wholesale aggregator, specialising in delivering bespoke solutions varying from DSL right through to complex MPLS... Due to rapid growth within the team they...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bromley, South East
Brokering agreement across multiple MSPs where shared infrastructure components are used by different programmesProvide a consultation service to the Enterprise Technology Services organisation to pre-empt issues in...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £70000.00 - £80000.00 per annum + Bonus, Full Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013