The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 21 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Communications & Networking
Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20 12 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 13.51% 6.452% 18.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 29
Average salary £45,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
Staffordshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) Lotus
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) MS Office
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Lotus Notes
2 4 (80.00%) LDAP
2 4 (80.00%) Windows XP
2 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) VoIP
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) CMDB
2 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) LDAP
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) VoIP
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Help Desk Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) IT Support
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) CCIP
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Lotus
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco