MPLS Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 182 202
Rank change year-on-year +50 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing MPLS 68 44 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.23% 0.75% 0.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.42% 4.46% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 30
10th Percentile £213 - £313
25th Percentile £331 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -3.28%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £688 £570 £542
England median daily rate £400 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -15.79% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £20.23 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £22.81 £22.06 £25.50
Median hourly rate £43.75 £26.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +0.96% +22.35%
75th Percentile £68.13 £30.56 £26.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £32.78 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £62.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -39.52% +125.45% +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,254 987 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.70% 16.93% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 595 776
10th Percentile £205 £235 £189
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £659
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 74 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -34.85%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £46.40
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for MPLS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MPLS in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MPLS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +18 40 £345 -31.00% 7
Berkshire +8 39 £345 -31.00% 5
Hampshire +21 24 £625 +42.86% 4
Surrey +13 3 £438 - 1
Buckinghamshire +24 2 - - 2
Kent +3 1 £363 -43.36% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (16.18%) Apache
1 11 (16.18%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.41%) Azure
2 2 (2.94%) AWS
2 2 (2.94%) Cloudflare
3 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.47%) IaaS
3 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (79.41%) BGP
2 38 (55.88%) WAN
3 29 (42.65%) SSL
4 24 (35.29%) Cisco Firepower
5 21 (30.88%) VPN
6 15 (22.06%) Firewall
7 12 (17.65%) Radio Access Network
8 11 (16.18%) Ethernet VPN
9 10 (14.71%) IPsec
10 8 (11.76%) Internet
10 8 (11.76%) OSPF
11 7 (10.29%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (10.29%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (8.82%) EIGRP
12 6 (8.82%) LAN
13 5 (7.35%) DNS
13 5 (7.35%) Junos
13 5 (7.35%) Unified Communications
13 5 (7.35%) Wireless
14 4 (5.88%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) MongoDB
1 11 (16.18%) NoSQL
1 11 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) JIRA
2 11 (16.18%) GitLab
2 11 (16.18%) Robot Framework
2 11 (16.18%) TestRail
3 1 (1.47%) Git
General
1 23 (33.82%) Finance
2 8 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.94%) Advertising
6 1 (1.47%) Aviation
6 1 (1.47%) Local Government
6 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (47.06%) Network Engineer
2 30 (44.12%) Architect
2 30 (44.12%) Network Architect
3 11 (16.18%) Test Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Senior
5 6 (8.82%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Network Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.41%) Network Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (1.47%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
8 1 (1.47%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 1 (1.47%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 1 (1.47%) Network Support
8 1 (1.47%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.65%) NETCONF
1 12 (17.65%) YANG
2 11 (16.18%) REST
2 11 (16.18%) RESTCONF
2 11 (16.18%) SOAP
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.35%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.35%) PKI
3 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
1 2 (2.94%) Unix
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
1 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.24%) Network Design
2 24 (35.29%) Network Management
3 23 (33.82%) Customer Requirements
4 22 (32.35%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (16.18%) Agile
5 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
5 11 (16.18%) Containerisation
5 11 (16.18%) Integration Testing
5 11 (16.18%) Performance Testing
5 11 (16.18%) Regression Testing
5 11 (16.18%) Scrum
5 11 (16.18%) Security Testing
5 11 (16.18%) Test Automation
5 11 (16.18%) Unit Testing
5 11 (16.18%) Workflow
6 7 (10.29%) Network Architecture
7 6 (8.82%) Migration
8 5 (7.35%) Data Protection
8 5 (7.35%) Load Balancing
9 4 (5.88%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.12%) Python
2 11 (16.18%) SQL
3 1 (1.47%) C
Qualifications
1 31 (45.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.12%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.82%) CCNA
4 6 (8.82%) CCNP
4 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.88%) Degree
6 3 (4.41%) CCIE
6 3 (4.41%) JNCIA
6 3 (4.41%) JNCIS
7 2 (2.94%) BC Cleared
7 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.47%) CCDP
8 1 (1.47%) CCIP
8 1 (1.47%) MCSA
8 1 (1.47%) MCSE
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) QA
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.47%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (35.29%) Endace
2 2 (2.94%) Ansible
2 2 (2.94%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (2.94%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (66.18%) Cisco
2 38 (55.88%) Juniper
3 29 (42.65%) F5
4 3 (4.41%) Forcepoint
4 3 (4.41%) VMware
5 2 (2.94%) ADVA
5 2 (2.94%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (2.94%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.94%) Citrix
5 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.94%) Nokia
5 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.94%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.47%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (1.47%) Dell
6 1 (1.47%) Meraki
6 1 (1.47%) Nokia Networks
6 1 (1.47%) Tellabs