MPLS Job Trends in the East Midlands

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring MPLS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 132 185
Rank change year-on-year -24 +53 -27
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 2 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.043% 0.052% 0.083%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.62% 0.26% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,750 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -15.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £50,250 £43,750 £54,375
90th Percentile - - £62,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year +20.00% +19.62% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 323 391 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.89% 20.22% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 193 159 469
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £28,625 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £54,069 £52,500
90th Percentile £63,500 £61,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

MPLS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MPLS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MPLS

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire - 1 £48,500 -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) 4G
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IOS XR
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Associate Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Technician
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Jinja
1 1 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (50.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet