MPLS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 295 374
Rank change year-on-year +77 +79 -23
Contract jobs citing MPLS 194 135 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.59% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.90% 3.82% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 57 78
10th Percentile £263 £263 £313
25th Percentile £325 £319 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £445
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -10.11% +4.71%
75th Percentile £475 £486 £537
90th Percentile £675 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £400 £486 £500
% change year-on-year -17.70% -2.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.32 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +151.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £62.62 £24.75
90th Percentile - £63.23 £25.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -35.48% +138.46% +13.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MPLS in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MPLS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MPLS in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Midlands +88 100 £375 +36.36% 9
West Midlands +77 96 £375 +36.36% 7
South East +25 66 £400 -20.00% 13
South West +1 13 £650 +62.50% 4
North of England -3 9 £425 +13.33% 16
Scotland +53 6 £400 -20.00%
North West -4 5 £602 +26.74% 7
East Midlands - 4 £563 - 2
North East - 3 £425 -
Wales +21 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +10 1 £500 +42.86% 9
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UK

MPLS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.09%) Apache
2 6 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.67%) Azure
2 9 (4.64%) AWS
3 6 (3.09%) GCP
4 2 (1.03%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.52%) IaaS
5 1 (0.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (72.68%) WAN
2 133 (68.56%) BGP
3 89 (45.88%) IPsec
4 80 (41.24%) VPN
5 51 (26.29%) Junos
6 36 (18.56%) LAN
7 32 (16.49%) Cisco Firepower
7 32 (16.49%) Firewall
8 29 (14.95%) SSL
9 24 (12.37%) SD-WAN
10 20 (10.31%) Internet
11 18 (9.28%) DNS
12 17 (8.76%) DHCP
12 17 (8.76%) OSPF
13 16 (8.25%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (6.19%) WLAN
15 10 (5.15%) PBX
15 10 (5.15%) SAN
15 10 (5.15%) TCP/IP
15 10 (5.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.09%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (7.73%) JIRA
2 6 (3.09%) GitLab
2 6 (3.09%) Robot Framework
2 6 (3.09%) TestRail
3 1 (0.52%) Hudson
General
1 32 (16.49%) Finance
2 24 (12.37%) Telecoms
3 16 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.73%) Social Skills
5 10 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.12%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.03%) Advertising
7 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Aviation
8 1 (0.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Local Government
8 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (35.57%) Network Engineer
2 54 (27.84%) Architect
3 47 (24.23%) Network Architect
4 32 (16.49%) Network Support
5 27 (13.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 26 (13.40%) WAN Engineer
7 24 (12.37%) 3rd Line Support
8 15 (7.73%) Senior
9 13 (6.70%) 2nd Line Support
10 12 (6.19%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 12 (6.19%) Test Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Analyst
12 8 (4.12%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 8 (4.12%) IT Analyst
12 8 (4.12%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
13 7 (3.61%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 7 (3.61%) IP Engineer
13 7 (3.61%) Senior IP Engineer
13 7 (3.61%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.64%) Web Services
2 6 (3.09%) NETCONF
2 6 (3.09%) REST
2 6 (3.09%) RESTCONF
2 6 (3.09%) SOAP
2 6 (3.09%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 55 (28.35%) PKI
2 35 (18.04%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.12%) Client/Server
3 8 (4.12%) Clustering
4 5 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.06%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.55%) CMDB
6 3 (1.55%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) IoT
8 1 (0.52%) BYOD
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.52%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.67%) Windows
2 9 (4.64%) Unix
3 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (27.32%) Network Design
2 44 (22.68%) Load Balancing
3 34 (17.53%) Network Management
4 30 (15.46%) Customer Requirements
5 25 (12.89%) Technical Leadership
6 23 (11.86%) Migration
7 19 (9.79%) Network Architecture
8 14 (7.22%) ITIL
9 13 (6.70%) Data Protection
9 13 (6.70%) Network Monitoring
10 12 (6.19%) Capacity Planning
10 12 (6.19%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (5.67%) Agile
12 10 (5.15%) Network Virtualisation
12 10 (5.15%) Storage Management
13 9 (4.64%) Architectural Design
13 9 (4.64%) Asset Management
13 9 (4.64%) Incident Management
13 9 (4.64%) Performance Management
13 9 (4.64%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.12%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.61%) Python
3 6 (3.09%) SQL
4 1 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 109 (56.19%) Security Cleared
2 46 (23.71%) SC Cleared
3 39 (20.10%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (14.43%) CCNP
5 18 (9.28%) CCNA
6 17 (8.76%) CCIE
7 14 (7.22%) Degree
8 9 (4.64%) CCIE Data Center
8 9 (4.64%) JNCIS
9 6 (3.09%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.06%) BC Cleared
10 4 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.06%) JNCIA
10 4 (2.06%) VCAP
11 3 (1.55%) HND
12 1 (0.52%) CCDP
12 1 (0.52%) CCIP
12 1 (0.52%) MCSA
12 1 (0.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.09%) SLA
2 4 (2.06%) QA
3 3 (1.55%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.12%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (4.12%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (3.09%) Docker
5 5 (2.58%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 25 (12.89%) Endace
2 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (4.12%) Nagios
2 8 (4.12%) NetBackup
2 8 (4.12%) SCCM
3 2 (1.03%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.52%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 124 (63.92%) Juniper
2 76 (39.18%) Cisco
3 31 (15.98%) F5
4 15 (7.73%) VMware
5 11 (5.67%) Fortinet
6 10 (5.15%) CheckPoint
6 10 (5.15%) Palo Alto
7 9 (4.64%) NetApp
7 9 (4.64%) Zscaler
8 8 (4.12%) Hitachi
9 6 (3.09%) Microsoft
10 5 (2.58%) Infoblox
10 5 (2.58%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.58%) Symantec
11 4 (2.06%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.55%) Aruba
13 2 (1.03%) Blue Coat
13 2 (1.03%) BT
13 2 (1.03%) Citrix
13 2 (1.03%) McAfee