MPLS Contracts in Gloucestershire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MPLS 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.20% - 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.06% - 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £718 - £565
25th Percentile £725 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £600
75th Percentile £756 - £624
90th Percentile £760 - £638
South West median daily rate £725 £650 £507
% change year-on-year +11.54% +28.33% +19.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 90 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.94% 18.75% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 70 60
10th Percentile £342 £299 £255
25th Percentile £475 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £460 £438
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +5.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £716 £600 £575
90th Percentile £776 £700 £589
South West median daily rate £535 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65.70
25th Percentile £15.75 £92.50 £74.25
Median hourly rate £16.50 £95.00 £88.50
Median % change year-on-year -82.63% +7.34% +44.49%
75th Percentile £19.13 £97.50 £102.75
90th Percentile £21.00 - £111.30
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
% change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +9.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Cheltenham - 3 £750 -
Gloucester - 1 £725 - 1
Tewkesbury - 1 £750 - 2
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (40.00%) IGRP
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) RIP
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) WLAN
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) SSH
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CMDB
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) CCNA
4 1 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Siemens
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper