The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 70 - 71
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 12 0 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.158% - 0.886%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.843% - 5.833%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 1
Average salary £50,000 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
153 83 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 14.77% 13.01% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 148 59 96
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £20,500 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,000 £50,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
Oxfordshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 22 (100.00%) Cisco
2 20 (90.91%) VoIP
3 19 (86.36%) HP
4 16 (72.73%) BGP
5 12 (54.55%) Ethernet
6 10 (45.45%) WAN
6 10 (45.45%) ADSL
6 10 (45.45%) LAN
6 10 (45.45%) PBX
6 10 (45.45%) Internet
6 10 (45.45%) Avaya
6 10 (45.45%) Juniper
6 10 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (45.45%) Mitel
6 10 (45.45%) Business Development
6 10 (45.45%) VPLS
6 10 (45.45%) Unified Communications
6 10 (45.45%) SaaS
6 10 (45.45%) HSRP
6 10 (45.45%) Mobile App
7 8 (36.36%) Network Design
8 7 (31.82%) WLAN
8 7 (31.82%) Riverbed
9 6 (27.27%) VLAN
9 6 (27.27%) ITIL
9 6 (27.27%) OSPF
10 5 (22.73%) IPv4
10 5 (22.73%) IPv6
10 5 (22.73%) EIGRP
10 5 (22.73%) IPsec

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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.

Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) VoIP
2 16 (72.73%) BGP
3 12 (54.55%) Ethernet
4 10 (45.45%) WAN
4 10 (45.45%) ADSL
4 10 (45.45%) LAN
4 10 (45.45%) PBX
4 10 (45.45%) Internet
4 10 (45.45%) VPLS
4 10 (45.45%) Unified Communications
4 10 (45.45%) HSRP
5 7 (31.82%) WLAN
6 6 (27.27%) VLAN
6 6 (27.27%) OSPF
7 5 (22.73%) IPv4
7 5 (22.73%) IPv6
7 5 (22.73%) EIGRP
7 5 (22.73%) IPsec
8 3 (13.64%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.091%) Publishing
3 1 (4.545%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Consultant
2 10 (45.45%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 7 (31.82%) Network Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Design Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Telecoms Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Network Design Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Network Manager
6 2 (9.091%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (9.091%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (9.091%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 2 (9.091%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (4.545%) Engineering Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) SaaS
1 10 (45.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (9.091%) Windows
1 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (45.45%) Business Development
2 8 (36.36%) Network Design
3 6 (27.27%) ITIL
4 2 (9.091%) Incident Management
4 2 (9.091%) Problem Management
4 2 (9.091%) Service Management
4 2 (9.091%) Change Management
4 2 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.545%) Network Management
5 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) CCNP
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.091%) MCITP
2 2 (9.091%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (9.091%) CCIE
2 2 (9.091%) VCAP
3 1 (4.545%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.091%) vSphere
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Cisco
2 19 (86.36%) HP
3 10 (45.45%) Avaya
3 10 (45.45%) Juniper
3 10 (45.45%) Mitel
4 7 (31.82%) Riverbed
5 4 (18.18%) F5
6 2 (9.091%) VMware
6 2 (9.091%) Huawei
6 2 (9.091%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (9.091%) Veeam
6 2 (9.091%) Citrix
7 1 (4.545%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.545%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.545%) Blue Coat
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Accordingly the candidate will need broad, proven experience in Wide Area Networking solutions and Connectivity Access models, including: - MPLS, VPLS, IPVPN, Cisco routers / switches, IP, VoIP, SIP, BGP,...
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Salary: £35k - 50k per year + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013