MPLS Contracts in London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 272 270 421
Rank change year-on-year -2 +151 +2
Contract jobs citing MPLS 81 121 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.65% 0.68% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.16% 7.04% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 74 45
10th Percentile £444 £354 £392
25th Percentile £475 £413 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +9.45%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £631 £676
England median daily rate £500 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -64.29% +154.55%
England median hourly rate £19.00 £37.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -49.33% -39.52% +125.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +6 8 £500 -20.32% 5
East London +16 3 £550 - 2
South London - 2 £600 -
West London +11 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.51%) Azure
2 17 (20.99%) AWS
3 13 (16.05%) Entra ID
3 13 (16.05%) IaaS
3 13 (16.05%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.23%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 51 (62.96%) BGP
2 48 (59.26%) VPN
3 41 (50.62%) Firewall
3 41 (50.62%) WAN
4 40 (49.38%) OSPF
5 20 (24.69%) SD-WAN
6 19 (23.46%) LAN
7 15 (18.52%) DNS
7 15 (18.52%) IPsec
7 15 (18.52%) Network Security
8 14 (17.28%) Multicast
9 11 (13.58%) Broadband
10 9 (11.11%) Internet
11 8 (9.88%) IPv6
11 8 (9.88%) Wireless
12 7 (8.64%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (8.64%) EIGRP
13 5 (6.17%) GPON
13 5 (6.17%) PSTN
13 5 (6.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.47%) MySQL
1 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) GitLab
2 2 (2.47%) JIRA
3 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (18.52%) Finance
2 9 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 5 (6.17%) Spanish Language
4 4 (4.94%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Banking
5 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Legal
6 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Law
6 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (43.21%) Network Engineer
2 10 (12.35%) Implementation Engineer
3 9 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 9 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Principal Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Principal Network Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Consultant
5 7 (8.64%) Core Network Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) WAN Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) WAN Specialist
6 6 (7.41%) Senior
7 5 (6.17%) Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Network Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) JSON
2 2 (2.47%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.47%) NETCONF
2 2 (2.47%) REST
2 2 (2.47%) RESTCONF
2 2 (2.47%) SOAP
2 2 (2.47%) XML
2 2 (2.47%) YAML
2 2 (2.47%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (8.64%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.70%) Clustering
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) Windows
2 13 (16.05%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.41%) Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Unix
5 2 (2.47%) CentOS
5 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.33%) Migration
2 26 (32.10%) Project Delivery
3 20 (24.69%) Network Monitoring
4 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (16.05%) Data Loss Prevention
5 13 (16.05%) Time Management
6 11 (13.58%) ITIL
7 9 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (9.88%) Validation
9 7 (8.64%) Network Design
10 6 (7.41%) Analytics
10 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (7.41%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (6.17%) Change Management
12 4 (4.94%) Agile
12 4 (4.94%) High Availability
12 4 (4.94%) Network Management
12 4 (4.94%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.75%) Python
2 4 (4.94%) Perl
2 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.47%) Bash
3 2 (2.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (28.40%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (16.05%) CCIE
3 11 (13.58%) CCNP
3 11 (13.58%) Degree
4 9 (11.11%) CCNA
5 5 (6.17%) CCIE Service Provider
6 3 (3.70%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.47%) CCSA
7 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.47%) JNCIA
7 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.23%) HNC
8 1 (1.23%) HND
8 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (16.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.47%) Docker
4 1 (1.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (17.28%) Ansible
2 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (12.35%) FortiGate
4 7 (8.64%) Terraform
5 6 (7.41%) ZABBIX
6 3 (3.70%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (3.70%) Nagios
7 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.23%) OpenView
8 1 (1.23%) OPNET
8 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 35 (43.21%) Cisco
2 18 (22.22%) Fortinet
3 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
4 15 (18.52%) SolarWinds
5 14 (17.28%) Palo Alto
6 12 (14.81%) Juniper
7 9 (11.11%) Nokia
8 8 (9.88%) CheckPoint
8 8 (9.88%) F5
9 7 (8.64%) Aruba
10 6 (7.41%) Arista
11 4 (4.94%) Splunk
11 4 (4.94%) VMware
12 3 (3.70%) EMC
12 3 (3.70%) IBM
12 3 (3.70%) Meraki
12 3 (3.70%) Solace
12 3 (3.70%) TIBCO
12 3 (3.70%) Zscaler
13 2 (2.47%) Oracle