MPLS Job Trends in Edinburgh

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring MPLS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 4 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.39% - 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.12% - 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £62,650 - -
25th Percentile £65,875 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +89.82%
75th Percentile £81,500 - £56,250
90th Percentile £83,750 - £63,000
Scotland median annual salary £74,500 - £53,750
% change year-on-year - - +104.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 97 107 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.47% 9.01% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 58 49 105
10th Percentile £26,255 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.00% +25.00% -29.20%
75th Percentile £54,000 £74,144 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,790 £87,000 £75,602
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -43.86%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

MPLS job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

MPLS
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing MPLS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing MPLS

MPLS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) People Management
1 4 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk