MPLS Jobs in Hampshire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 180 143
Rank change year-on-year +67 -37 +79
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 13 9 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.64% 0.22% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.43% 1.37% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 7
10th Percentile £51,000 £32,430 £41,500
25th Percentile £51,188 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £65,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +36.84% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65,625 £72,000 £58,125
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,000 £68,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +15.79% -24.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 379 659 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 18.76% 16.28% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 277 589 412
10th Percentile £31,700 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £71,000 £75,900
South East median annual salary £46,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -5.26%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Hampshire

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Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for MPLS in Hampshire

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Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing MPLS in Hampshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MPLS in Hampshire

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Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Basingstoke +7 7 £65,000 +41.46% 3
Portsmouth +5 3 £52,500 - 1
Southampton - 2 £54,000 - 1
Farnborough - 1 - -
MPLS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) BGP
1 5 (38.46%) WAN
2 4 (30.77%) Ethernet
2 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) GPON
2 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) Broadband
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (23.08%) DHCP
3 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 3 (23.08%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (23.08%) IPv4
3 3 (23.08%) IPv6
3 3 (23.08%) Junos
3 3 (23.08%) LAN
3 3 (23.08%) VXLAN
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (15.38%) IPsec
4 2 (15.38%) OSPF
4 2 (15.38%) Wireless
General
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Network Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (23.08%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
1 3 (23.08%) Network Management
1 3 (23.08%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (23.08%) Security Patching
2 2 (15.38%) Network Design
2 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL
3 1 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (7.69%) Network Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) JNCIS
3 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) CCNP
4 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (15.38%) CCNA
6 1 (7.69%) CCIE
6 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
1 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Cisco
1 9 (69.23%) Juniper
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
3 3 (23.08%) SevOne
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto