MPLS Contracts in Reading

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing MPLS 24 30 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.18% 2.63% 2.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.88% 13.33% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 13
10th Percentile £519 £263 £375
25th Percentile £579 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £550 £546
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% +0.82% +54.62%
75th Percentile £697 £575 £640
90th Percentile £734 £590 £1,003
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £613
% change year-on-year +2.04% -20.06% +60.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 202 225 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 18.36% 19.75% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 134 132
10th Percentile £350 £205 £338
25th Percentile £416 £368 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.97% +2.68% +9.64%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £575
90th Percentile £644 £650 £652
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.17% +10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £56.25 - -
25th Percentile £66.62 £66.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £73.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.99% - -
75th Percentile - £75.25 -
90th Percentile - £76.29 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.24 £73.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.37% +276.92% -58.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in Reading over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 8 (33.33%) AWS
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
1 8 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 19 (79.17%) BGP
1 19 (79.17%) VPN
2 10 (41.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 9 (37.50%) Firewall
4 8 (33.33%) IPsec
4 8 (33.33%) OSPF
4 8 (33.33%) WAN
5 7 (29.17%) SD-WAN
6 6 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (25.00%) EIGRP
6 6 (25.00%) Network Security
7 5 (20.83%) DMVPN
8 4 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (16.67%) Ethernet
8 4 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (16.67%) Sourcefire
8 4 (16.67%) VLAN
9 3 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) MongoDB
1 10 (41.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (54.17%) JIRA
2 5 (20.83%) GitLab
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Billing
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Automation Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Automation Tester
2 5 (20.83%) Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Network Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Network Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Network Security Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Security Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Senior Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Tester
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Transmission Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Network Technical Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) NETCONF
1 10 (41.67%) REST
1 10 (41.67%) RESTCONF
1 10 (41.67%) SOAP
1 10 (41.67%) YANG
2 5 (20.83%) Gherkin
2 5 (20.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) CentOS
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
1 10 (41.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 10 (41.67%) Workflow
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Scrum
3 7 (29.17%) Test Strategy
4 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 5 (20.83%) API Design
5 5 (20.83%) BDD
5 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.83%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) ITIL
5 5 (20.83%) Network Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (20.83%) OO
5 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
5 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (25.00%) CCIE
2 6 (25.00%) CCNP
3 5 (20.83%) CCNA
4 2 (8.33%) CCIE Service Provider
4 2 (8.33%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) CCSA
5 1 (4.17%) CCSE
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 6 (25.00%) Zscaler
3 4 (16.67%) Aruba
3 4 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 4 (16.67%) F5
3 4 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 3 (12.50%) Blue Coat
4 3 (12.50%) Juniper
4 3 (12.50%) McAfee
5 2 (8.33%) BT
6 1 (4.17%) Nokia