MPLS Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring MPLS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MPLS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 2.92% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £463 £400
% change year-on-year -13.51% +15.63% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 34 12 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 19.88% 13.04% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 20
10th Percentile £253 £167 £349
25th Percentile £269 £197 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -5.88% +65.05%
75th Percentile £521 £425 £475
90th Percentile £549 £445 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +13.40%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

MPLS job vacancy trend in Coventry

MPLS
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing MPLS

MPLS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) IPv4
2 3 (60.00%) IPv6
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) WLAN
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) Wireless
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Network Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (80.00%) Network Design
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) CCIE
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) CCSP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCIE Security
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) JNCIE
3 1 (20.00%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) F5
2 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (60.00%) Meraki
2 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) Forcepoint