MPLS Contracts in Scotland

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for MPLS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MPLS over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 159 174
Rank change year-on-year +28 +15 -26
Contract jobs citing MPLS 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.035% 0.057%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.58% 0.29% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £560 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -39.52% +138.46% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

MPLS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 253 349 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.31% 12.19% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 220 194
10th Percentile £188 £160 £179
25th Percentile £363 £361 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.78%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 17
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -26.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.45
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +4.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Glasgow - 2 £475 - 2
Edinburgh +36 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 - -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) 5G
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) VPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Field Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) BYOD
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (25.00%) Network Optimisation
1 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Nokia
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto