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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 464 535
Rank change year-on-year -58 +71 +74
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 173 418 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.49% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.10% 3.46% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 123 331 294
10th Percentile £41,372 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +30.00% -14.89% -2.08%

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 8,241 12,095 14,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.79% 14.08% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,715 8,541 7,303
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -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 13 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 13 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 +19 60 £60,000 -13.98% 66
South East +76 36 £65,000 +18.18% 42
South West +120 27 £55,000 +13.40% 15
Midlands -14 24 £65,000 +34.02% 14
West Midlands -33 23 £65,000 +34.02% 7
North of England -7 16 £48,750 +11.43% 11
North West -31 10 £65,000 +52.94% 4
East of England +23 9 £57,500 +27.78% 7
Yorkshire +52 6 £32,500 -45.83% 7
East Midlands +31 1 £42,500 -15.00% 6
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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 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (5.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.79%) Azure
2 42 (24.28%) AWS
3 10 (5.78%) AWS Direct Connect
3 10 (5.78%) GCP
4 8 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.31%) IaaS
5 4 (2.31%) SaaS
6 3 (1.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (1.73%) Cloudflare
6 3 (1.73%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 114 (65.90%) WAN
2 104 (60.12%) Firewall
3 95 (54.91%) BGP
4 76 (43.93%) LAN
5 75 (43.35%) VPN
6 69 (39.88%) OSPF
7 58 (33.53%) SD-WAN
8 40 (23.12%) IPsec
9 38 (21.97%) TCP/IP
10 34 (19.65%) Network Security
10 34 (19.65%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (15.61%) Cisco ISE
11 27 (15.61%) DNS
11 27 (15.61%) Wireless
12 24 (13.87%) VoIP
12 24 (13.87%) WLAN
13 23 (13.29%) VLAN
14 22 (12.72%) DHCP
14 22 (12.72%) Junos
15 21 (12.14%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (1.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.16%) JIRA
1 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.58%) GitLab
2 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
General
1 44 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.34%) Finance
3 18 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.25%) Telecoms
5 14 (8.09%) Legal
6 13 (7.51%) Banking
7 10 (5.78%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.47%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Advertising
11 2 (1.16%) Front Office
11 2 (1.16%) Retail
12 1 (0.58%) Aviation
12 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (35.26%) Network Engineer
2 39 (22.54%) Architect
3 35 (20.23%) Network Architect
4 17 (9.83%) Senior
5 15 (8.67%) Lead
6 14 (8.09%) Junior
6 14 (8.09%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (6.94%) NOC Engineer
8 10 (5.78%) Coordinator
8 10 (5.78%) Help Desk Coordinator
9 9 (5.20%) Cisco Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Consultant
9 9 (5.20%) Operations Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Network Consultant
11 6 (3.47%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.47%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.47%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.47%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.20%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.58%) Jinja
2 1 (0.58%) OpenConfig
2 1 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.92%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.09%) CCTV
3 10 (5.78%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.78%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.47%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.47%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.89%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (2.31%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.73%) PMI
9 2 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.58%) Clustering
10 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) NHS
10 1 (0.58%) PKI
10 1 (0.58%) SCADA
10 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.56%) Windows
2 17 (9.83%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.09%) Linux
4 13 (7.51%) Windows 10
5 11 (6.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (16.76%) Network Design
3 25 (14.45%) ITIL
4 24 (13.87%) Network Monitoring
4 24 (13.87%) Technical Leadership
5 23 (13.29%) Network Architecture
5 23 (13.29%) Network Management
6 18 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (9.25%) Mentoring
7 16 (9.25%) Roadmaps
8 15 (8.67%) High Availability
8 15 (8.67%) Incident Management
8 15 (8.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 14 (8.09%) Change Management
10 12 (6.94%) Cloud Security
10 12 (6.94%) Configuration Management
10 12 (6.94%) Network Segmentation
10 12 (6.94%) Project Delivery
10 12 (6.94%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (6.36%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.40%) SQL
2 15 (8.67%) Python
3 14 (8.09%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.78%) Bash
5 4 (2.31%) PHP
6 1 (0.58%) R
6 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (47.40%) Cisco Certification
2 66 (38.15%) CCNA
3 60 (34.68%) CCNP
4 46 (26.59%) Security Cleared
5 36 (20.81%) SC Cleared
6 24 (13.87%) JNCIS
7 14 (8.09%) DV Cleared
8 12 (6.94%) CCIE
8 12 (6.94%) Degree
9 5 (2.89%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.89%) JNCIA
10 4 (2.31%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.73%) CCSA
11 3 (1.73%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.16%) CCDA
12 2 (1.16%) CCDP
12 2 (1.16%) CCSE
12 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.16%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.83%) SLA
2 6 (3.47%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) COBIT
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (24.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (9.83%) Hyper-V
3 15 (8.67%) Active Directory
4 13 (7.51%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.47%) Firmware
6 4 (2.31%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (9.25%) FortiGate
2 9 (5.20%) Ansible
2 9 (5.20%) Nagios
3 6 (3.47%) Proxmox
3 6 (3.47%) Terraform
4 5 (2.89%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.89%) WSUS
5 4 (2.31%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.16%) CASB
6 2 (1.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 118 (68.21%) Cisco
2 66 (38.15%) Juniper
3 50 (28.90%) VMware
4 45 (26.01%) Microsoft
5 36 (20.81%) SolarWinds
6 35 (20.23%) Fortinet
7 22 (12.72%) CheckPoint
7 22 (12.72%) Meraki
8 19 (10.98%) Palo Alto
9 13 (7.51%) SevOne
10 12 (6.94%) Citrix
11 11 (6.36%) Red Hat
12 10 (5.78%) Dynatrace
12 10 (5.78%) Veeam
13 9 (5.20%) F5
14 8 (4.62%) HP
14 8 (4.62%) Infoblox
14 8 (4.62%) Riverbed
15 7 (4.05%) Arista
16 6 (3.47%) Extreme Networks