MPLS Contracts in the South West

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 147 152
Rank change year-on-year +44 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing MPLS 18 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.98% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.74% 2.34% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 4
10th Percentile £438 £285 £374
25th Percentile £513 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +62.50% -10.11%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £469
90th Percentile £649 - £593
England median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 5
10th Percentile - - £55.62
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.48% -1.95%
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £70.89
England median hourly rate £38.75 £25.00 £55.32
% change year-on-year +55.00% -54.81% +112.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 267 556 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.56% 17.03% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 355 340
10th Percentile £235 £300 £247
25th Percentile £366 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +2.38% +11.70%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £627
90th Percentile £671 £688 £725
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 45 71
10th Percentile £13.09 £12.60 -
25th Percentile £14.85 £15.75 £9.80
Median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.51% +113.17% -50.93%
75th Percentile £41.40 £71.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £55.56 £75.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in the South West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Somerset +6 12 £563 - 1
Wiltshire +36 4 £625 +212.50%
Bristol +13 2 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (38.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) BGP
2 11 (61.11%) VPN
3 7 (38.89%) DNS
3 7 (38.89%) IPsec
3 7 (38.89%) Unified Communications
4 6 (33.33%) OSPF
5 4 (22.22%) IPv6
6 2 (11.11%) Broadband
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (11.11%) Firewall
6 2 (11.11%) GPON
6 2 (11.11%) IOS XR
6 2 (11.11%) Multicast
6 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
6 2 (11.11%) VLAN
6 2 (11.11%) WAN
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Core Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Principal Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Principal Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Switch Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) NETCONF
1 7 (38.89%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Network Virtualisation
1 8 (44.44%) NsoIT
1 8 (44.44%) Service Management
1 8 (44.44%) System Testing
1 8 (44.44%) Validation
2 7 (38.89%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (16.67%) ArchiMate
4 2 (11.11%) Business Development
4 2 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (11.11%) IT Governance
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (11.11%) Supplier Management
4 2 (11.11%) Time Management
4 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (66.67%) CCNP
2 12 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) Degree
4 4 (22.22%) CCIE
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 2 (11.11%) CCNA
5 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) JNCIE
5 2 (11.11%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) VMware ESXi
1 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Nagios
2 2 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Atlassian
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) SolarWinds
4 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 2 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (11.11%) Juniper
4 2 (11.11%) Nokia
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto