MPLS Contracts in Cheshire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 55 54
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing MPLS 2 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.39% 1.48% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.56% 8.00% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £270 -
25th Percentile - £281 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £350 £415
Median % change year-on-year - -15.66% -
75th Percentile - £388 £448
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £470 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +25.27% -28.57% -8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 78 100 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.18% 18.48% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 64 49
10th Percentile £65 £266 £163
25th Percentile £199 £344 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £406
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +21.61% +1.50%
75th Percentile £520 £586 £575
90th Percentile £582 £630 £630
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.40% +11.11% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £20.11 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £24.25 - -
90th Percentile £25.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £33.62 £31.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year +7.57% +68.92% -61.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in Cheshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Value-Added Service
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) VCAP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds