MPLS Contracts in Central London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 162 170
Rank change year-on-year +35 +8 -33
Contract jobs citing MPLS 6 18 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.24% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.44% 4.64% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 23
10th Percentile £533 £523 £401
25th Percentile £563 £568 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £693 - £538
90th Percentile £724 £756 -
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 246 388 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.97% 10.05% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 266 361
10th Percentile £213 £205 £313
25th Percentile £350 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £598 £673 £600
90th Percentile £744 £750 £713
London median daily rate £500 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -10.31% +1.36% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £18.93 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile - £30.86 £64.35
London median hourly rate £23.65 £43.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -45.00% +22.86% +45.83%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in Central London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 25 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +30 5 £730 +21.67% 4
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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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 4 (66.67%) IaaS
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (66.67%) Mimecast
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) IOS XR
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) Multicast
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) French Language
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Core Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Genesys Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) NETCONF
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (16.67%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) IT Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Business Case
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) Okta
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Genesys
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) Nokia