MPLS Jobs in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring MPLS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MPLS over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 456 529
Rank change year-on-year -55 +73 +109
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 174 431 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.00% 3.57% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 120 341 288
10th Percentile £37,970 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.39% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,691 12,070 13,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.97% 13.65% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,631 8,541 7,118
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in England

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Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MPLS in England.

Salary trend for MPLS in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MPLS in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MPLS in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
London +43 65 £60,000 -14.29% 49
South East +58 35 £65,000 +18.18% 41
South West +118 26 £55,000 +13.40% 17
Midlands -24 23 £65,000 +34.02% 22
West Midlands -16 22 £65,000 +34.02% 14
North of England -22 16 £48,750 +8.33% 14
North West -44 10 £65,000 +52.94% 5
East of England +22 8 £57,500 +27.78% 8
Yorkshire +38 6 £32,500 -45.83% 9
East Midlands +36 1 £42,500 -15.00% 7
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (5.75%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.72%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 59 (33.91%) Azure
2 46 (26.44%) AWS
3 13 (7.47%) AWS Direct Connect
3 13 (7.47%) GCP
4 8 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.30%) IaaS
5 4 (2.30%) SaaS
6 3 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (1.72%) Cloudflare
6 3 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 115 (66.09%) WAN
2 106 (60.92%) Firewall
3 100 (57.47%) BGP
4 81 (46.55%) VPN
5 77 (44.25%) LAN
6 75 (43.10%) OSPF
7 58 (33.33%) SD-WAN
8 44 (25.29%) IPsec
9 39 (22.41%) TCP/IP
10 34 (19.54%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (17.24%) Network Security
12 27 (15.52%) WLAN
13 26 (14.94%) Cisco ISE
13 26 (14.94%) DNS
14 25 (14.37%) Wireless
15 24 (13.79%) VLAN
15 24 (13.79%) VoIP
16 22 (12.64%) Junos
17 21 (12.07%) Cisco ASA
17 21 (12.07%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.15%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 42 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.97%) Finance
3 16 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.20%) Banking
4 15 (8.62%) Telecoms
5 14 (8.05%) Legal
6 11 (6.32%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (5.75%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.72%) Retail
12 2 (1.15%) Advertising
13 1 (0.57%) Aviation
13 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.57%) Front Office
13 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Korean Language
13 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (36.21%) Network Engineer
2 38 (21.84%) Architect
3 34 (19.54%) Network Architect
4 15 (8.62%) Lead
5 14 (8.05%) Junior
5 14 (8.05%) Senior
6 12 (6.90%) NOC Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Cisco Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Operations Engineer
8 10 (5.75%) Coordinator
8 10 (5.75%) Help Desk Coordinator
9 9 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Consultant
10 8 (4.60%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Network Operations Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Junior Support Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Junior Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.75%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.57%) Jinja
2 1 (0.57%) OpenConfig
2 1 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.97%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.05%) CCTV
3 13 (7.47%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.75%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (4.60%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.45%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.45%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.87%) Mobile Computing
8 4 (2.30%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.72%) PMI
9 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.57%) Clustering
11 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) NHS
11 1 (0.57%) PKI
11 1 (0.57%) SCADA
11 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.07%) Windows
2 17 (9.77%) Windows Server
3 15 (8.62%) Linux
4 13 (7.47%) Windows 10
5 11 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (17.24%) Network Design
3 29 (16.67%) ITIL
4 24 (13.79%) Network Monitoring
4 24 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (12.64%) Network Architecture
6 20 (11.49%) Network Management
7 19 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (10.34%) Incident Management
9 17 (9.77%) Change Management
9 17 (9.77%) High Availability
10 15 (8.62%) Mentoring
10 15 (8.62%) Requirements Gathering
10 15 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (8.05%) Cloud Security
11 14 (8.05%) Network Segmentation
12 12 (6.90%) Configuration Management
12 12 (6.90%) Project Delivery
12 12 (6.90%) Roadmaps
13 11 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.49%) Python
2 18 (10.34%) SQL
3 14 (8.05%) PowerShell
4 13 (7.47%) Bash
5 4 (2.30%) PHP
6 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.57%) R
6 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (48.85%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (39.66%) CCNA
3 65 (37.36%) CCNP
4 43 (24.71%) Security Cleared
5 35 (20.11%) SC Cleared
6 24 (13.79%) JNCIS
7 14 (8.05%) DV Cleared
8 13 (7.47%) Degree
9 12 (6.90%) CCIE
10 5 (2.87%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.87%) JNCIA
11 4 (2.30%) CCSA
11 4 (2.30%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (1.72%) CCDA
12 3 (1.72%) CCDP
12 3 (1.72%) CCSE
12 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.72%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.15%) DBS Check
13 2 (1.15%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.77%) SLA
2 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) COBIT
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (24.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (9.77%) Hyper-V
3 15 (8.62%) Active Directory
4 13 (7.47%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.45%) Firmware
6 5 (2.87%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (8.05%) FortiGate
2 12 (6.90%) Nagios
3 10 (5.75%) Ansible
4 6 (3.45%) Proxmox
5 5 (2.87%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.87%) Terraform
5 5 (2.87%) WSUS
6 4 (2.30%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (1.72%) CASB
7 3 (1.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 114 (65.52%) Cisco
2 65 (37.36%) Juniper
3 51 (29.31%) VMware
4 45 (25.86%) Microsoft
5 41 (23.56%) SolarWinds
6 35 (20.11%) Fortinet
7 25 (14.37%) CheckPoint
8 22 (12.64%) Meraki
9 18 (10.34%) Palo Alto
10 14 (8.05%) SevOne
11 13 (7.47%) Dynatrace
12 12 (6.90%) Citrix
13 11 (6.32%) F5
13 11 (6.32%) Red Hat
14 10 (5.75%) Infoblox
14 10 (5.75%) Veeam
15 8 (4.60%) HP
16 7 (4.02%) Extreme Networks
16 7 (4.02%) Riverbed
17 6 (3.45%) Arista