The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 17 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 55 61 58
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -3
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 3 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.574% 0.479% 0.846%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.896% 2.913% 5.556%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 5
Average salary £100,000 £45,000 £67,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+122.22% -32.83%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Communications & Networking
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
77 103 90
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 14.72% 16.45% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 70 98 70
Average salary £38,000 £34,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.14% -18.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,800 £22,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £67,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
MPLS
South Yorkshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 4 (100.00%) SLA
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) VRRP
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
4 1 (25.00%) L2TP
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (25.00%) Network Design

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) VRRP
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) L2TP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper