The first table below looks at the demand for VPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPLS 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
Rank - 184 169
Permanent jobs citing VPLS 0 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - 0.022% 0.168%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.138% 0.941%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 7
Average salary - £67,500 £17,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +285.71%
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-29.00% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
871 724 744
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.32% 15.88% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 708 594 586
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,050 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPLS
England

VPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands VPLS Jobs Demand Trend

VPLS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VPLS across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands VPLS Salary Trend

VPLS
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing VPLS 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 VPLS.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) PBX
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) BT
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) WAAS
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL V3
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement

VPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing VPLS 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 VPLS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) PBX
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (100.00%) WAAS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL V3
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) BT