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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 46 57 51
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -6
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 20 6 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 3.175% 1.310% 1.629%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.62% 12.50% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 8
Average salary £42,500 £25,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+70.00% -39.02%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,950 £25,000 £40,700
10% offered a salary of more than £62,100 £37,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
97 48 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 15.40% 10.48% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 88 46 52
Average salary £42,500 £33,950 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.18% -3.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £59,250 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
South West

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Salary Histogram

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

Somerset MPLS Salary Histogram

MPLS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bath -6 3 £40,000 +14.28%
Shepton Mallet - 3 £40,000 -
Taunton - 1 £29,500 -
Wells - 1 £40,000 -
MPLS
South West

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 45 (93.75%) Cisco
2 39 (81.25%) Cisco Certification
3 38 (79.17%) VPN
4 35 (72.92%) CCNA
5 32 (66.67%) IPsec
6 31 (64.58%) ISDN
7 29 (60.42%) Ethernet
7 29 (60.42%) 3G
8 28 (58.33%) BGP
9 27 (56.25%) WAN
9 27 (56.25%) ADSL
10 25 (52.08%) OSPF
11 24 (50.00%) ITIL
12 23 (47.92%) CCNP
13 22 (45.83%) Internet
14 21 (43.75%) EIGRP
14 21 (43.75%) Firewall
15 20 (41.67%) CCIP
16 19 (39.58%) Change Management
17 18 (37.50%) SDH
18 17 (35.42%) LAN
18 17 (35.42%) TCP/IP
19 16 (33.33%) SHDSL
19 16 (33.33%) xDSL
20 15 (31.25%) Performance Management
21 14 (29.17%) Problem Management
21 14 (29.17%) Fault Management
21 14 (29.17%) Redback
21 14 (29.17%) Ericsson
22 12 (25.00%) SLA

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 10 (20.83%) MS Office
2 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 38 (79.17%) VPN
2 32 (66.67%) IPsec
3 31 (64.58%) ISDN
4 29 (60.42%) Ethernet
4 29 (60.42%) 3G
5 28 (58.33%) BGP
6 27 (56.25%) WAN
6 27 (56.25%) ADSL
7 25 (52.08%) OSPF
8 22 (45.83%) Internet
9 21 (43.75%) EIGRP
9 21 (43.75%) Firewall
10 18 (37.50%) SDH
11 17 (35.42%) LAN
11 17 (35.42%) TCP/IP
12 16 (33.33%) SHDSL
12 16 (33.33%) xDSL
13 11 (22.92%) DNS
14 10 (20.83%) L2TP
14 10 (20.83%) TACACS
General
1 11 (22.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) Operations Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 5 (10.42%) Operations Manager
4 5 (10.42%) Implementation Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (8.333%) Technical Operations Manager
5 4 (8.333%) Technical Manager
5 4 (8.333%) Customer Engineer
6 3 (6.250%) Change Manager
6 3 (6.250%) NOC Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Implementation Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) IP Engineer
8 1 (2.083%) Network Support Engineer
8 1 (2.083%) Network Manager
8 1 (2.083%) Technical Trainer
8 1 (2.083%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.083%) Blackberry
2 1 (2.083%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) UNIX
2 2 (4.167%) Windows
2 2 (4.167%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (50.00%) ITIL
2 19 (39.58%) Change Management
3 15 (31.25%) Performance Management
4 14 (29.17%) Problem Management
4 14 (29.17%) Fault Management
5 7 (14.58%) CRM
5 7 (14.58%) Process Management
5 7 (14.58%) Incident Management
6 5 (10.42%) Validation
6 5 (10.42%) Network Management
7 3 (6.250%) Data Analysis
8 1 (2.083%) Data Protection
8 1 (2.083%) Time Management
8 1 (2.083%) Operations Management
8 1 (2.083%) ITIL V3
8 1 (2.083%) High Availability
8 1 (2.083%) Change Control
8 1 (2.083%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.083%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (81.25%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (72.92%) CCNA
3 23 (47.92%) CCNP
4 20 (41.67%) CCIP
5 7 (14.58%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (12.50%) CCDP
7 1 (2.083%) CCIE
7 1 (2.083%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.083%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) SLA
2 7 (14.58%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.250%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.083%) Nagios
Vendors
1 45 (93.75%) Cisco
2 14 (29.17%) Redback
2 14 (29.17%) Ericsson
3 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 8 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 8 (16.67%) Juniper
5 4 (8.333%) VMware
6 3 (6.250%) Foundry
7 2 (4.167%) SolarWinds
Somerset, South West
This includes MPLS VPN, IP Access and associated overlay services, such as Application Performance Management (APM), and IPSec VPN, delivered over xDSL, EFM (copper and fibre), Leased Line,...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £35K + 5% bonus + 20% shift allowance
Posted: 21 May 2013
Somerset, South West
This includes MPLS VPN, IP Access and associated overlay services, such as Application Performance Management (APM), and IPSec VPN, delivered over xDSL, EFM (copper and fibre), Leased Line,...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £62k + 5% bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013