MPLS Contracts in Reading

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for MPLS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MPLS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 71 78
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -20
Contract jobs citing MPLS 23 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.93% 1.54% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.43% 8.70% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £205 £438 £344
25th Percentile £213 £458 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +11.11% +18.10%
75th Percentile £400 £535 £497
90th Percentile £474 £556 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £345 £500 £471
% change year-on-year -31.00% +6.16% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £21.75 £26.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.14% +0.96% +22.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

MPLS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 244 184 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 20.49% 17.68% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 97 115
10th Percentile £205 £337 £164
25th Percentile £335 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £602
90th Percentile - £718 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £490 £486 £467
% change year-on-year +0.77% +4.12% +20.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £77.22 - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.52% +153.85% -45.26%
75th Percentile £87.53 £73.69 £26.50
90th Percentile - £78.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -50.72%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing MPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MPLS in Reading.

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MPLS in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (47.83%) Apache
1 11 (47.83%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 18 (78.26%) BGP
2 14 (60.87%) VPN
3 11 (47.83%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (47.83%) Radio Access Network
4 8 (34.78%) Firewall
5 5 (21.74%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (17.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (17.39%) HSRP
6 4 (17.39%) WAN
7 3 (13.04%) EIGRP
7 3 (13.04%) GLBP
7 3 (13.04%) IPsec
7 3 (13.04%) SNMP
7 3 (13.04%) SSL
7 3 (13.04%) VPLS
7 3 (13.04%) VRRP
8 2 (8.70%) OSPF
9 1 (4.35%) GGSN
9 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
9 1 (4.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) MongoDB
1 11 (47.83%) NoSQL
1 11 (47.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) GitLab
1 11 (47.83%) JIRA
1 11 (47.83%) Robot Framework
1 11 (47.83%) TestRail
General
1 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Network Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) Test Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Field Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Field Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Network Field Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Tester
4 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) NETCONF
1 11 (47.83%) REST
1 11 (47.83%) RESTCONF
1 11 (47.83%) SOAP
1 11 (47.83%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
1 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
1 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
1 11 (47.83%) Integration Testing
1 11 (47.83%) Performance Testing
1 11 (47.83%) Regression Testing
1 11 (47.83%) Scrum
1 11 (47.83%) Security Testing
1 11 (47.83%) Test Automation
1 11 (47.83%) Unit Testing
1 11 (47.83%) Workflow
2 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
2 3 (13.04%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (8.70%) Change Control
3 2 (8.70%) High Availability
3 2 (8.70%) Network Architecture
3 2 (8.70%) Service Design
3 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
4 1 (4.35%) Migration
4 1 (4.35%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (13.04%) CCNA
3 2 (8.70%) CCIE
3 2 (8.70%) CCNP
3 2 (8.70%) JNCIA
3 2 (8.70%) JNCIS
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Cisco
2 5 (21.74%) Juniper
3 2 (8.70%) F5
4 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) Zscaler