MPLS Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring MPLS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MPLS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.54% - 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.25% - 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
Hampshire median daily rate £575 - £538
% change year-on-year - - -6.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 16 40 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 8.60% 29.85% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 36
10th Percentile £363 £420 £300
25th Percentile £466 - £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £457
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -1.42% +8.76%
75th Percentile £663 £488 £574
90th Percentile £700 £558 £636
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £457
% change year-on-year +4.76% +15.01% -11.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 24 13
10th Percentile - £35.00 £52.14
25th Percentile £44.86 £52.22 £55.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.05% - -10.71%
75th Percentile £52.58 £70.31 £70.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.36 £62.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -3.42% +5.93% +22.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MPLS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

MPLS job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing MPLS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing MPLS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto