MPLS Contracts in the City of London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 115 122 162
Rank change year-on-year +7 +40 +4
Contract jobs citing MPLS 4 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.23% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.37% 2.37% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile £524 £715 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £730 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +21.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £573 £745 -
90th Percentile - - £756
Central London median daily rate £500 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -20.32% +4.58% +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 169 211 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.62% 9.60% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 249
10th Percentile £258 £213 £246
25th Percentile £475 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £744 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £538 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for MPLS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) IaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Spanish Language
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CCSA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (25.00%) ForeScout
2 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds