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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 86 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +38
DemandTrendContract jobs citing MPLS 4 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.40% 0.82% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 3.28% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile £508 £380 £425
25th Percentile £519 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £563
90th Percentile £613 £709 £600
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.04% -6.49%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 195 366 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.64% 24.91% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 168 149
10th Percentile £325 £413 £238
25th Percentile £500 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +27.78% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £613
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 67 35
10th Percentile £49.10 £31.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £51.42 £53.40 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +30.90%
75th Percentile £58.73 £62.53 £66.25
90th Percentile £60.18 £70.00 £73.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.20
% change year-on-year -4.10% -1.46% +29.34%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing MPLS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing MPLS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing MPLS

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DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Havant -6 2 £600 -16.08%
Southampton +3 1 £500 +42.86% 2
Farnborough - 1 - -
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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Service Design
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Iperf
2 1 (25.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds