VPLS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VPLS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VPLS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 725 781
Rank change year-on-year -23 +56 -119
Permanent jobs citing VPLS 12 26 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.043% 0.098%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.24% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 70
10th Percentile £22,500 £46,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £50,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +16.07%
75th Percentile £56,250 £59,375 £56,438
90th Percentile - £65,000 £61,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +70.00% +19.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

VPLS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,776 10,911 10,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.78% 18.11% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,090 4,770 6,474
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,889 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

VPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VPLS in the UK excluding London

VPLS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPLS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VPLS in the UK excluding London

VPLS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPLS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VPLS in the UK excluding London

VPLS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPLS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West -23 7 £52,500 - 2
North of England +39 2 - -
North West +6 2 - -
East of England - 2 £25,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -
VPLS
UK

VPLS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) MPLS
2 9 (75.00%) BGP
3 5 (41.67%) DNS
3 5 (41.67%) Firewall
4 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (33.33%) VoIP
5 3 (25.00%) DHCP
5 3 (25.00%) OSPF
5 3 (25.00%) VPN
6 2 (16.67%) LAN
6 2 (16.67%) SAN
6 2 (16.67%) Skype
6 2 (16.67%) SNMP
6 2 (16.67%) SSL
6 2 (16.67%) VLAN
6 2 (16.67%) WAN
6 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (16.67%) Wireless
6 2 (16.67%) WLAN
7 1 (8.33%) PBX
General
1 2 (16.67%) Automotive
1 2 (16.67%) Law
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Support
2 2 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IP Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IP Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (16.67%) CAD
2 2 (16.67%) Information Security
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (8.33%) Biotechnology
3 1 (8.33%) DDoS Mitigation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (66.67%) CCNA
3 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) CCNP
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Cisco
2 9 (75.00%) Juniper
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (25.00%) HP
4 3 (25.00%) Meraki
5 2 (16.67%) Acronis
5 2 (16.67%) Aerohive Networks
5 2 (16.67%) Dell
5 2 (16.67%) EqualLogic
5 2 (16.67%) Mitel
5 2 (16.67%) NETGEAR
5 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 2 (16.67%) Symantec
5 2 (16.67%) Synology
5 2 (16.67%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (16.67%) VMware
6 1 (8.33%) Citrix