The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 23 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 Uxbridge region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 34 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Uxbridge 0.990% 0.441% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.509% 3.125% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £46,250 £70,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.92% -
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Uxbridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
57 32 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Uxbridge 28.22% 14.10% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 51 31 40
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £80,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
London

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Uxbridge 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%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) VCAP
2 2 (50.00%) FWSM
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (50.00%) MCITP
2 2 (50.00%) Huawei
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco PIX

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Uxbridge 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%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) FWSM
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Technical Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) VCAP
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (50.00%) MCITP
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 2 (50.00%) Huawei