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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 154 128
Rank change year-on-year -25 -26 +98
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 1 13 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.029% 0.29% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 1.92% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 20
10th Percentile - £36,750 £57,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £39,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -19.30% +1.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,875 £85,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.54%

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 688 676 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 20.29% 15.02% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 263 392 287
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £28,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,085 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £58,375 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £41,355 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -17.29% -3.85% -0.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing MPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the East of England

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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

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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 19 September 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
Suffolk -25 1 £65,000 +62.50%
MPLS
England

MPLS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 802.11
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) CDMA
1 1 (100.00%) GPRS
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) PPP
1 1 (100.00%) SDH
1 1 (100.00%) SS7
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Avaya
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (100.00%) F5