The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 20 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 64 - 55
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 4 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 0.673% - 0.894%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.883% - 4.032%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
Average salary £37,500 - £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
103 51 124
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 17.34% 8.870% 22.18%
Number of salaries quoted 93 46 101
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,500 £27,400
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £62,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
MPLS
West Midlands

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire MPLS Salary Trend

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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cannock - 1 - -
MPLS
West Midlands

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) LDAP
1 6 (66.67%) DHCP
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (66.67%) SAN
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 5 (55.56%) WAN
2 5 (55.56%) LAN
3 4 (44.44%) VoIP
3 4 (44.44%) Windows XP
3 4 (44.44%) MS Exchange
3 4 (44.44%) Lotus Notes
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) MS Office
3 4 (44.44%) Lotus
3 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 4 (44.44%) CMDB
3 4 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (33.33%) CCNP
4 3 (33.33%) WLAN
5 2 (22.22%) Kerberos
5 2 (22.22%) SNMP
5 2 (22.22%) Web Services
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (22.22%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (44.44%) MS Exchange
1 4 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (22.22%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) LDAP
1 6 (66.67%) DHCP
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
1 6 (66.67%) SAN
2 5 (55.56%) LAN
2 5 (55.56%) WAN
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 4 (44.44%) VoIP
3 4 (44.44%) Firewall
4 3 (33.33%) WLAN
5 2 (22.22%) Kerberos
5 2 (22.22%) SNMP
5 2 (22.22%) Wireless
5 2 (22.22%) VLAN
5 2 (22.22%) Network Security
5 2 (22.22%) NAS
6 1 (11.11%) OSPF
6 1 (11.11%) BGP
6 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (44.44%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Help Desk Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) IT Support
3 2 (22.22%) Storage Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Support
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows XP
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
3 2 (22.22%) Windows 8
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
1 4 (44.44%) Validation
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
2 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
2 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
2 2 (22.22%) Six Sigma
2 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (22.22%) MCSE
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) ISA Server
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Lotus
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 2 (22.22%) NetApp
3 2 (22.22%) Veritas