Reading MPLS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) skills within the Reading 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Location Aberdeen Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dundee Dunstable East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Jersey Kent Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redditch Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	109	58
Rank change on same period last year	-51
Matching permanent IT job ads	41	88
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	4.818 %	12.14 %
Salaries quoted	40	55
Average minimum salary	£55,025	£45,327
Average salary	£56,213	£48,891
% change on same period last year	+14.97 %
Average maximum salary	£57,400	£52,455
UK excluding London average salary	£46,512	£47,089
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Communications & Networking Reading
Matching permanent IT job ads	851	725
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.417 %	0.321 %
Salaries quoted	741	545
Average minimum salary	£39,655	£38,798
Average salary	£42,141	£41,778
% change on same period last year	+0.86 %
Average maximum salary	£44,627	£44,757
UK excluding London average salary	£37,693	£39,086
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing MPLS across the Reading 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 ads citing MPLS across the Reading region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MPLS across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Reading region citing MPLS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MPLS.

1 59 (58.42 %) Cisco 2 56 (55.45 %) LAN 3 55 (54.46 %) Cisco Certification 4 54 (53.47 %) WAN 5 51 (50.50 %) CCNP 6 36 (35.64 %) ISDN 7 34 (33.66 %) DSL 7 34 (33.66 %) Wireless 8 33 (32.67 %) Telecoms 8 33 (32.67 %) CCNA 8 33 (32.67 %) TCP/IP 9 25 (24.75 %) SDH 9 25 (24.75 %) Ethernet 9 25 (24.75 %) Juniper 10 24 (23.76 %) VPN

11 23 (22.77 %) SNMP 11 23 (22.77 %) FTP 11 23 (22.77 %) Broadband 11 23 (22.77 %) OpenView 11 23 (22.77 %) HP 11 23 (22.77 %) Netcool 11 23 (22.77 %) TELNET 11 23 (22.77 %) Cramer 11 23 (22.77 %) MetaSolv 12 16 (15.84 %) OSPF 13 15 (14.85 %) Network Design 14 14 (13.86 %) Firewall 15 13 (12.87 %) JNCIE 16 12 (11.88 %) CCDP 17 11 (10.89 %) CheckPoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Reading region citing MPLS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MPLS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (0.990 %) WebLogic 1 1 (0.990 %) IIS 1 1 (0.990 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (0.990 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (0.990 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (0.990 %) MS Office 1 1 (0.990 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 56 (55.45 %) LAN 2 54 (53.47 %) WAN 3 36 (35.64 %) ISDN 4 34 (33.66 %) DSL 4 34 (33.66 %) Wireless 5 33 (32.67 %) TCP/IP 6 25 (24.75 %) Ethernet 6 25 (24.75 %) SDH 7 24 (23.76 %) VPN 8 23 (22.77 %) FTP 8 23 (22.77 %) Broadband 8 23 (22.77 %) SNMP 8 23 (22.77 %) TELNET 9 16 (15.84 %) OSPF 10 14 (13.86 %) Firewall 11 10 (9.901 %) BIG-IP 12 9 (8.911 %) RIP 13 7 (6.931 %) BGP 13 7 (6.931 %) VoIP 14 4 (3.960 %) Frame Relay	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server 1 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 33 (32.67 %) Telecoms 2 10 (9.901 %) Health 2 10 (9.901 %) Pensions 3 1 (0.990 %) Marketing 3 1 (0.990 %) Government	Job Titles 1 37 (36.63 %) Cisco Engineer 2 34 (33.66 %) Network Engineer 3 25 (24.75 %) Design Engineer 4 19 (18.81 %) Consultant 5 16 (15.84 %) Architect 6 14 (13.86 %) Cisco Network Engineer 7 12 (11.88 %) Network Consultant 7 12 (11.88 %) Network Designer 8 11 (10.89 %) Management Consultant 8 11 (10.89 %) OSS Engineer 8 11 (10.89 %) OSS Consultant 9 7 (6.931 %) Network Specialist 10 5 (4.950 %) Senior Consultant 11 4 (3.960 %) Senior Network Engineer 11 4 (3.960 %) Network Support 12 3 (2.970 %) Network Architect 12 3 (2.970 %) Senior Network Specialist 12 3 (2.970 %) Senior Network Architect 13 2 (1.980 %) Senior Solutions Architect 13 2 (1.980 %) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous 1 1 (0.990 %) Thin Client 1 1 (0.990 %) Replication 1 1 (0.990 %) Clustering 1 1 (0.990 %) French Language 1 1 (0.990 %) Italian Language 1 1 (0.990 %) Spanish Language 1 1 (0.990 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 8 (7.921 %) Unix 1 8 (7.921 %) Solaris 2 7 (6.931 %) Linux 3 1 (0.990 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (14.85 %) Network Design 2 2 (1.980 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (0.990 %) Risk Analysis 3 1 (0.990 %) Product Marketing 3 1 (0.990 %) Project Planning 3 1 (0.990 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (0.990 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (0.990 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (0.990 %) SQL 1 1 (0.990 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 55 (54.46 %) Cisco Certification 2 51 (50.50 %) CCNP 3 33 (32.67 %) CCNA 4 13 (12.87 %) JNCIE 5 12 (11.88 %) CCDP 6 9 (8.911 %) CCIP 6 9 (8.911 %) CCIE 7 5 (4.950 %) CCVP 8 2 (1.980 %) JNCIA 8 2 (1.980 %) JNCIS 9 1 (0.990 %) JNCIP 9 1 (0.990 %) CCDA 9 1 (0.990 %) MCP 9 1 (0.990 %) Microsoft Certification 9 1 (0.990 %) CNA 9 1 (0.990 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.990 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (0.990 %) Terminal Services 1 1 (0.990 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 23 (22.77 %) OpenView 1 23 (22.77 %) Netcool 2 1 (0.990 %) MOM
Vendors 1 59 (58.42 %) Cisco 2 25 (24.75 %) Juniper 3 23 (22.77 %) HP 3 23 (22.77 %) MetaSolv 3 23 (22.77 %) Cramer 4 11 (10.89 %) CheckPoint 5 8 (7.921 %) Microsoft 6 7 (6.931 %) VMware 7 2 (1.980 %) Nokia 8 1 (0.990 %) Blue Coat 8 1 (0.990 %) Oracle