MPLS Contracts in Yorkshire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 103 115
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing MPLS 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.23% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 2.05% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £205 - £308
25th Percentile £250 £475 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +42.86% -24.32%
75th Percentile £450 £525 £388
90th Percentile £495 - -
England median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 203 195 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.44% 11.36% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 127 143
10th Percentile £235 £192 £151
25th Percentile £363 £275 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +7.22% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £606
90th Percentile £619 £638 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -1.60% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 30
10th Percentile - £12.75 £9.80
25th Percentile - £13.87 £10.01
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - +71.87% -41.58%
75th Percentile - £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.47% +89.33% -3.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
South Yorkshire -2 1 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 £200 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) 4G
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (33.33%) HSRP
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) ISDN
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) PSTN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft