MPLS Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring MPLS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 31 49
Rank change year-on-year -40 +18 -
Contract jobs citing MPLS 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.23% 1.22% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.56% 7.14% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% - -
75th Percentile £538 £468 -
90th Percentile - £493 -
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 78 42 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.05% 17.07% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 20 58
10th Percentile £301 £365 £369
25th Percentile £458 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £508 £518
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -2.03% +1.57%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £550
90th Percentile £643 £551 £758
South East median daily rate £523 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +6.91% -2.25% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.00
Median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.52
Median % change year-on-year - -36.94% +18.53%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £42.25 £45.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -7.14% -20.66% -4.42%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MPLS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

MPLS job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

MPLS
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing MPLS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing MPLS

MPLS
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing MPLS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing MPLS

MPLS
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 19 June 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -34 2 £525 +5.00% 2
MPLS
South East

MPLS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) IPv6
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) CCDA
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCIP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler