MPLS Contracts in East London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 17 33 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing MPLS 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 2.86% 0.87% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.00% 6.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £494 - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +9.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 20 32 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 19.05% 13.85% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 34
10th Percentile £209 £194 £188
25th Percentile £243 £540 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £585 £663
Median % change year-on-year -23.49% -11.70% +59.64%
75th Percentile £559 £725 £750
90th Percentile £585 £770 £775
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £24.66 - £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.54%
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 East London

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in East London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in East London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in East London

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Contract Job Locations in East 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 East 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
Lewisham - 1 £550 - 2
Tower Hamlets - 1 £550 -
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 2 (66.67%) NGFW
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) Multicast
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) PSTN
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Telephony Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Aruba
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) Arista