MPLS Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring MPLS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MPLS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.25% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £478 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £490 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +37.86% -30.00% +42.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 135 79 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.07% 13.44% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 44 65
10th Percentile £308 £235 £269
25th Percentile £318 £300 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £634 - £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £485 £485
% change year-on-year -2.06% - +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 5
10th Percentile £20.14 - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £13.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.32%
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile £27.49 - £16.66
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 - £18.27
% change year-on-year - - +71.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

MPLS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing MPLS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing MPLS

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Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing MPLS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing MPLS

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. 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
Leeds - 3 £483 - 2
MPLS
Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Broadband
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) LTE
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) WAN Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler