The first table below looks at the demand for VPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPLS 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
Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
Rank 124 130 100
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -30
Permanent jobs citing VPLS 9 2 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.415% 0.088% 1.114%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.144% 0.343% 5.541%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 21
Average salary £35,000 £26,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.61% -22.38%
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-29.00% +33.33%
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%
VPLS
Berkshire

VPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading VPLS Salary Trend

VPLS
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 22 (100.00%) MPLS
2 17 (77.27%) Juniper
2 17 (77.27%) JNCIA
3 14 (63.64%) JNCIS
3 14 (63.64%) JNCIP
4 13 (59.09%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (54.55%) DSL
5 12 (54.55%) Telecoms
6 10 (45.45%) BGP
6 10 (45.45%) RSVP
6 10 (45.45%) Ethernet
7 9 (40.91%) Cisco
8 8 (36.36%) CCNA
9 6 (27.27%) CCIP
10 5 (22.73%) WAN
10 5 (22.73%) CCIE
10 5 (22.73%) CCNP
10 5 (22.73%) VPN
10 5 (22.73%) EIGRP
10 5 (22.73%) OSPF
10 5 (22.73%) Network Design
10 5 (22.73%) Finance
10 5 (22.73%) Validation
10 5 (22.73%) IPsec
11 4 (18.18%) Extranet
11 4 (18.18%) Firewall
11 4 (18.18%) SLA
11 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
12 2 (9.091%) Twitter

VPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 22 (100.00%) MPLS
2 12 (54.55%) DSL
3 10 (45.45%) BGP
3 10 (45.45%) RSVP
3 10 (45.45%) Ethernet
4 5 (22.73%) WAN
4 5 (22.73%) VPN
4 5 (22.73%) EIGRP
4 5 (22.73%) OSPF
4 5 (22.73%) IPsec
5 4 (18.18%) Extranet
5 4 (18.18%) Firewall
General
1 12 (54.55%) Telecoms
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) NOC Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Network Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Network Specialist
3 5 (22.73%) Network Specialist
3 5 (22.73%) IP Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Network Operations Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Network Design
1 5 (22.73%) Validation
2 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) JNCIA
2 14 (63.64%) JNCIS
2 14 (63.64%) JNCIP
3 13 (59.09%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (36.36%) CCNA
5 6 (27.27%) CCIP
6 5 (22.73%) CCIE
6 5 (22.73%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) SLA
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Juniper
2 9 (40.91%) Cisco
3 2 (9.091%) Twitter