MPLS Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring MPLS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 41 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +10
Contract jobs citing MPLS 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 0.57% 1.32% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.57% 8.93% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £544 - £456
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -17.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 84 56 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 16.09% 14.78% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 35 49
10th Percentile £256 £455 £256
25th Percentile £334 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £583 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.96% +11.05% +8.82%
75th Percentile £581 £665 £688
90th Percentile £619 £745 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £401 £466 £425
% change year-on-year -13.99% +9.71% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +55.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +13.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MPLS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

MPLS job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing MPLS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing MPLS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in Warwickshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing MPLS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing MPLS

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Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Warwick -10 2 £450 -10.00%
MPLS
West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 2 (66.67%) SDH
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) IPv4
2 1 (33.33%) IPv6
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 1 (33.33%) VMware