MPLS Job Trends in the East of England

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring MPLS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 171 112
Rank change year-on-year +16 -59 +104
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 1 19 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.027% 0.46% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 2.76% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 15
10th Percentile - £53,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £65,938 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £70,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% -15.15% +17.86%
75th Percentile £44,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 613 689 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.34% 16.60% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 295 348 268
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £66,313
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

MPLS job vacancy trend in the East of England

MPLS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing MPLS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing MPLS

MPLS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +6 1 £43,000 -46.25% 3
MPLS
England

MPLS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft