MPLS Contracts in West London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 36 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 -2
Contract jobs citing MPLS 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 0.75% 1.35% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.30% 7.02% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% - -
London median daily rate £525 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +10.53% -17.39% +9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 87 57 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 32.46% 19.26% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 43 76
10th Percentile £275 £213 £133
25th Percentile £366 £270 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.42%
75th Percentile £463 £532 £700
90th Percentile £509 £575 £838
London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £52.00 £23.80 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.49% -70.25% +321.05%
75th Percentile - £44.40 £88.13
90th Percentile - £56.76 £89.25
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £33.65
% change year-on-year +5.67% -29.26% +40.72%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in West London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in West London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in West London

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Hammersmith - 1 - -
MPLS
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTCONF
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
1 1 (50.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Sequence Diagram
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto