MPLS Contracts in Merseyside

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 22 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing MPLS 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.17% - 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.33% - 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £363 - £293
25th Percentile £400 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £538 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £475 £470 £375
% change year-on-year +1.12% +25.27% -28.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 30 21 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 17.86% 9.21% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 29
10th Percentile £151 £160 £248
25th Percentile £163 £177 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £295 £413
Median % change year-on-year -27.12% -28.48% -2.94%
75th Percentile £463 £382 £525
90th Percentile £538 £575 £550
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Merseyside

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Merseyside

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Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool - 6 £525 - 1
Bootle - 1 - -
MPLS
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 6 (85.71%) BGP
2 4 (57.14%) IPv6
2 4 (57.14%) OSPF
3 2 (28.57%) Broadband
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (28.57%) GPON
3 2 (28.57%) IOS XR
3 2 (28.57%) Multicast
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Core Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Performance Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
2 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
1 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) Nokia
4 1 (14.29%) Meraki
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto