The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 61 114 81
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -33
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 81 18 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 3.734% 0.795% 2.175%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.29% 3.087% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 68 18 39
Average salary £45,000 £48,750 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +30.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,700 £26,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £45,300
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
787 583 379
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.28% 25.75% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 623 463 310
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
Berkshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MPLS across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading MPLS Salary Histogram

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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.

1 143 (81.25%) Cisco
2 138 (78.41%) Cisco Certification
3 110 (62.50%) CCNP
4 106 (60.23%) CCIE
5 93 (52.84%) CCIP
6 92 (52.27%) Juniper
6 92 (52.27%) BGP
7 66 (37.50%) OSPF
8 49 (27.84%) CCNA
9 47 (26.70%) Telecoms
9 47 (26.70%) JNCIA
9 47 (26.70%) JNCIP
10 43 (24.43%) Unified Communications
11 41 (23.30%) JNCIS
12 37 (21.02%) WAN
13 35 (19.89%) Firewall
14 33 (18.75%) Ethernet
15 26 (14.77%) IPv6
16 25 (14.20%) VPN
17 24 (13.64%) IPv4
18 23 (13.07%) DSL
19 22 (12.50%) VPLS
20 21 (11.93%) CheckPoint
20 21 (11.93%) IPsec
20 21 (11.93%) TCP/IP
21 20 (11.36%) Network Design
22 19 (10.80%) Network Architecture
22 19 (10.80%) CCSP
22 19 (10.80%) ITIL
23 18 (10.23%) JNCIE

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 3 (1.705%) CGI
2 1 (0.568%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (2.841%) Lync
2 3 (1.705%) Apache
3 2 (1.136%) MS Exchange
3 2 (1.136%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.568%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.568%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.136%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.568%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.568%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 92 (52.27%) BGP
2 66 (37.50%) OSPF
3 43 (24.43%) Unified Communications
4 37 (21.02%) WAN
5 35 (19.89%) Firewall
6 33 (18.75%) Ethernet
7 26 (14.77%) IPv6
8 25 (14.20%) VPN
9 24 (13.64%) IPv4
10 23 (13.07%) DSL
11 22 (12.50%) VPLS
12 21 (11.93%) IPsec
12 21 (11.93%) TCP/IP
13 17 (9.659%) LAN
14 16 (9.091%) EIGRP
14 16 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (8.523%) Network Security
15 15 (8.523%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (7.386%) Wireless
17 12 (6.818%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.273%) SQL Server
General
1 47 (26.70%) Telecoms
2 12 (6.818%) Finance
3 6 (3.409%) Billing
4 5 (2.841%) Retail
4 5 (2.841%) Back Office
5 1 (0.568%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (49.43%) Network Engineer
2 38 (21.59%) IP Engineer
3 31 (17.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 31 (17.61%) Cisco Engineer
4 29 (16.48%) IP Network Engineer
5 26 (14.77%) Support Engineer
6 23 (13.07%) 2nd Line Support
6 23 (13.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 23 (13.07%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
7 22 (12.50%) Technical Design Authority
8 12 (6.818%) 3rd Line Support
8 12 (6.818%) Consultant
8 12 (6.818%) Network Support
9 11 (6.250%) Team Leader
9 11 (6.250%) Cisco Support
10 9 (5.114%) NOC Engineer
10 9 (5.114%) Network Team Leader
11 8 (4.545%) Architect
12 7 (3.977%) Test Engineer
13 5 (2.841%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.273%) Open Source
2 2 (1.136%) Thin Client
2 2 (1.136%) Fat Client
3 1 (0.568%) iPad
3 1 (0.568%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
1 8 (4.545%) Windows
2 7 (3.977%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (1.705%) Debian
3 3 (1.705%) Linux
4 2 (1.136%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.568%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.568%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.568%) Android
5 1 (0.568%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.568%) Windows Phone
5 1 (0.568%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.568%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (11.36%) Network Design
2 19 (10.80%) Network Architecture
2 19 (10.80%) ITIL
3 10 (5.682%) Load Balancing
3 10 (5.682%) Service Delivery
4 6 (3.409%) PRINCE2
4 6 (3.409%) Network Management
5 5 (2.841%) Validation
5 5 (2.841%) CRM
6 4 (2.273%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (2.273%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (1.705%) Incident Management
7 3 (1.705%) Supplier Management
7 3 (1.705%) Change Management
7 3 (1.705%) Project Management
8 1 (0.568%) Integration Testing
8 1 (0.568%) Network Load Balancing
8 1 (0.568%) Capacity Management
8 1 (0.568%) Software Deployment
8 1 (0.568%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.977%) SQL
2 3 (1.705%) Perl
3 1 (0.568%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 138 (78.41%) Cisco Certification
2 110 (62.50%) CCNP
3 106 (60.23%) CCIE
4 93 (52.84%) CCIP
5 49 (27.84%) CCNA
6 47 (26.70%) JNCIA
6 47 (26.70%) JNCIP
7 41 (23.30%) JNCIS
8 19 (10.80%) CCSP
9 18 (10.23%) JNCIE
10 12 (6.818%) CCDP
11 6 (3.409%) CCDA
12 5 (2.841%) Degree
13 3 (1.705%) MCITP
14 2 (1.136%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (1.136%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (1.136%) MCP
14 2 (1.136%) VCAP
14 2 (1.136%) CCDE
14 2 (1.136%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.409%) SLA
2 4 (2.273%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.705%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.705%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (2.273%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.705%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (1.705%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.136%) vSphere
4 1 (0.568%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.568%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.568%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 5 (2.841%) HP NNM
1 5 (2.841%) CiscoWorks
1 5 (2.841%) OpenView
2 3 (1.705%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.568%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 143 (81.25%) Cisco
2 92 (52.27%) Juniper
3 21 (11.93%) CheckPoint
4 8 (4.545%) ZyXEL
4 8 (4.545%) Twitter
5 7 (3.977%) Remedy
5 7 (3.977%) VMware
5 7 (3.977%) HP
6 6 (3.409%) Nortel
6 6 (3.409%) Huawei
7 5 (2.841%) NETGEAR
7 5 (2.841%) F5
7 5 (2.841%) Redback
7 5 (2.841%) BT
8 3 (1.705%) Draytek
9 2 (1.136%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.136%) Citrix
9 2 (1.136%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (1.136%) Veeam
9 2 (1.136%) Riverbed
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