MPLS Contracts in Hampshire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 65 70 93
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 +30
Contract jobs citing MPLS 4 25 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.54% 1.55% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.47% 5.56% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile - £380 -
25th Percentile £575 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +31.43% -7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £475
90th Percentile - £709 -
South East median daily rate £450 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +12.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 162 450 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.72% 27.95% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 162 162
10th Percentile £325 £266 £228
25th Percentile £456 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +1.44%
75th Percentile £618 £634 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £694
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 73 38
10th Percentile £51.49 £17.69 £18.25
25th Percentile £55.09 £51.06 £42.44
Median hourly rate £59.13 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% -4.42% +166.67%
75th Percentile £63.44 £61.30 £69.69
90th Percentile £69.38 £62.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Hampshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Hampshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in Hampshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Hampshire 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
Havant +4 4 £600 -16.08%
MPLS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 4 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Network Design
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Service Design
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCIE
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (100.00%) Zscaler