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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 159 118
Rank change year-on-year +15 -41 +41
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 2 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.087% 0.028% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% 0.31% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £48,583 - £46,000
25th Percentile £49,737 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,362 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -4.35% +18.56%
75th Percentile £57,023 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £58,199 - -
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -

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 420 324 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.23% 9.17% 16.83%
Number of salaries quoted 179 131 222
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,250 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £40,000 £40,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -1.84% -14.21%
75th Percentile £41,750 £50,000 £56,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

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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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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) IPv4
2 1 (50.00%) IPv6
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPLS
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba