Middlesex MPLS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Location Aberdeen Accrington Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dundee Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Renfrew Renfrewshire Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	91	96
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.840 %	3.696 %
Salaries quoted	6	14
Average minimum salary	£36,667	£66,214
Average salary	£39,167	£68,536
% change on same period last year	-42.85 %
Average maximum salary	£41,667	£70,857
UK excluding London average salary	£43,526	£48,423
% change on same period last year	-10.11 %
Communications & Networking Middlesex
Matching permanent IT job ads	326	487
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.172 %	0.199 %
Salaries quoted	264	379
Average minimum salary	£35,498	£41,303
Average salary	£38,725	£43,907
% change on same period last year	-11.80 %
Average maximum salary	£41,952	£46,510
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
MPLS South East

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MPLS across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MPLS across the Middlesex region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MPLS across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 20 (83.33 %) Cisco 2 19 (79.17 %) Cisco Certification 3 15 (62.50 %) CCNP 4 14 (58.33 %) LAN 4 14 (58.33 %) Firewall 5 13 (54.17 %) WAN 5 13 (54.17 %) BGP 6 12 (50.00 %) CCNA 6 12 (50.00 %) VPN 7 9 (37.50 %) Load Balancing 8 8 (33.33 %) EIGRP 9 7 (29.17 %) Frame Relay 9 7 (29.17 %) OSPF 10 6 (25.00 %) Degree 11 5 (20.83 %) ATM

11 5 (20.83 %) Sun 11 5 (20.83 %) CCIE 11 5 (20.83 %) Windows 11 5 (20.83 %) Solaris 12 4 (16.67 %) MCSE 12 4 (16.67 %) Ethernet 12 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 13 3 (12.50 %) CCSP 13 3 (12.50 %) VoIP 13 3 (12.50 %) Retail 13 3 (12.50 %) Wireless 13 3 (12.50 %) Telecoms 13 3 (12.50 %) Network Security 14 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 14 2 (8.333 %) FMCG

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 14 (58.33 %) LAN 1 14 (58.33 %) Firewall 2 13 (54.17 %) BGP 2 13 (54.17 %) WAN 3 12 (50.00 %) VPN 4 8 (33.33 %) EIGRP 5 7 (29.17 %) Frame Relay 5 7 (29.17 %) OSPF 6 5 (20.83 %) ATM 7 4 (16.67 %) Ethernet 8 3 (12.50 %) VoIP 8 3 (12.50 %) Wireless 8 3 (12.50 %) Network Security 9 2 (8.333 %) Cisco PIX 9 2 (8.333 %) IPsec 9 2 (8.333 %) WLAN 9 2 (8.333 %) PBX 10 1 (4.167 %) SDH 10 1 (4.167 %) SNMP 10 1 (4.167 %) DHCP
General 1 3 (12.50 %) Retail 1 3 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 2 (8.333 %) Construction 2 2 (8.333 %) Health 2 2 (8.333 %) Pensions 2 2 (8.333 %) Marketing 2 2 (8.333 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 12 (50.00 %) Network Engineer 2 6 (25.00 %) Cisco Engineer 3 3 (12.50 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 3 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 3 3 (12.50 %) Cisco Support 3 3 (12.50 %) Senior Cisco Engineer 3 3 (12.50 %) Senior Cisco Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Administrator 4 2 (8.333 %) Senior Project Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) Senior Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) Network Specialist 4 2 (8.333 %) Project Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) Network Administrator 5 1 (4.167 %) Network Support 5 1 (4.167 %) NOC Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Specialist 5 1 (4.167 %) Support Specialist 5 1 (4.167 %) Systems Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Senior Network Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Network Support Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Blackberry 1 2 (8.333 %) CCTV 2 1 (4.167 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 5 (20.83 %) Windows 1 5 (20.83 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (37.50 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (8.333 %) Stakeholder Management 2 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (8.333 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Service Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Change Management 3 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (4.167 %) ITIL	Qualifications 1 19 (79.17 %) Cisco Certification 2 15 (62.50 %) CCNP 3 12 (50.00 %) CCNA 4 6 (25.00 %) Degree 5 5 (20.83 %) CCIE 6 4 (16.67 %) MCSE 6 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (12.50 %) CCSP 8 2 (8.333 %) CCIP 8 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Systems Management 1 1 (4.167 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 20 (83.33 %) Cisco 2 5 (20.83 %) Sun 3 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 4 1 (4.167 %) Juniper