MPLS Jobs in Lancashire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 82 -
Rank change year-on-year -77 - -
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 1 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.043% 0.46% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% 4.88% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £51,250 -
90th Percentile - £53,750 -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +52.94% -10.53% -2.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 579 123 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 24.99% 9.40% 23.64%
Number of salaries quoted 75 116 63
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,500 £23,750
25th Percentile £24,500 £32,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 £50,919
North West median annual salary £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Lancashire

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Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for MPLS in Lancashire

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Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Blackburn - 1 £65,000 -
MPLS
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper