MPLS Contracts in Central London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 121 127 156
Rank change year-on-year +6 +29 +14
Contract jobs citing MPLS 8 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.40% 0.25% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.72% 2.47% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile - £533 £523
25th Percentile £490 £563 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £628 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.32% +4.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £541 £693 -
90th Percentile £560 £724 £756
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +9.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 243 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.77% 9.93% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 169 269
10th Percentile £263 £211 £208
25th Percentile £448 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £675
90th Percentile £711 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Central London 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
City of London +7 4 £549 -24.86% 5
City of Westminster - 2 - -
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) BGP
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) OSPF
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Broadband
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (25.00%) IPv6
3 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 2 (25.00%) Spanish Language
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Time Management
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CCIE
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) CCSA
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Forcepoint
3 1 (12.50%) ForeScout
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds