MPLS Job Trends in the City of London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring MPLS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 161 153
Rank change year-on-year +32 -8 +82
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 2 6 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.095% 0.22% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.07% 1.43% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile - £63,750 £61,375
25th Percentile - £82,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,500 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.65% +15.29% +41.44%
75th Percentile - £93,250 £92,500
90th Percentile - £99,125 -
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £90,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -22.65% +35.07% +10.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

MPLS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 187 421 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.89% 15.53% 13.18%
Number of salaries quoted 149 247 342
10th Percentile £33,400 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £50,000 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £63,309
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.67% -2.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,500 £105,000 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -3.23%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MPLS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

MPLS job vacancy trend in the City of London

MPLS
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MPLS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MPLS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Forcepoint
1 2 (100.00%) ForeScout
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow