MPLS Contracts in Bedfordshire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring MPLS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MPLS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing MPLS 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.64% 0.41% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.33% 2.63% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - -
East of England median daily rate £250 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +13.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bedfordshire

MPLS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12 38 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 7.69% 15.45% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 8
10th Percentile £235 £260 £144
25th Percentile £250 £300 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £305
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +14.75% -23.75%
75th Percentile - £519 £466
90th Percentile £570 £573 £651
East of England median daily rate £475 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £28.36 - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 £15.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +296.77% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £34.63 -
90th Percentile - £46.10 -
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Bedfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dunstable - 1 £250 -
MPLS
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 802.11
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco