MPLS Job Trends in London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring MPLS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 340 358
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 +112
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 44 67 143
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.23% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.09% 4.68% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 14 58 108
10th Percentile £48,000 £33,200 £50,588
25th Percentile - £45,959 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £110,625 £82,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £110,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £64,800 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.74% +29.60% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,108 1,431 3,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.89% 11.08% 14.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 981 2,074
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £77,969
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MPLS job vacancy trend in London

MPLS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MPLS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MPLS

MPLS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MPLS in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for MPLS in London

MPLS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Central London +5 5 £85,000 +25.93% 3
West London - 3 - -
South London +20 1 - -
MPLS
England

MPLS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) AWS
2 13 (29.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 12 (27.27%) AWS Direct Connect
3 12 (27.27%) Azure
4 11 (25.00%) SaaS
5 4 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (4.55%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.27%) Datadog
7 1 (2.27%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 33 (75.00%) BGP
2 28 (63.64%) WAN
3 26 (59.09%) SD-WAN
4 25 (56.82%) OSPF
5 23 (52.27%) Firewall
6 19 (43.18%) VPN
7 18 (40.91%) LAN
8 17 (38.64%) VXLAN
9 15 (34.09%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (31.82%) Cisco ISE
10 14 (31.82%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (29.55%) Ethernet VPN
11 13 (29.55%) NX-OS
11 13 (29.55%) WLAN
12 12 (27.27%) IPsec
13 11 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
14 10 (22.73%) Network Security
15 9 (20.45%) Broadband
15 9 (20.45%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Telecoms
3 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Military
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Cisco Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Firewall Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Network Operations Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Operations Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Architect
5 7 (15.91%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (11.36%) Associate Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Network Support
7 4 (9.09%) Presales Solution Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Network Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Senior Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Senior Network Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) Jinja
1 8 (18.18%) NETCONF
1 8 (18.18%) YANG
2 3 (6.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 9 (20.45%) Management Information System
2 9 (20.45%) Social Media
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) PKI
4 2 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 13 (29.55%) Network Segmentation
1 13 (29.55%) Zero Trust
2 11 (25.00%) Network Design
3 10 (22.73%) Cloud Security
4 9 (20.45%) Agile
4 9 (20.45%) Kalman Filter
4 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.45%) Runbook
5 8 (18.18%) Data Science
5 8 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (13.64%) Presales
7 5 (11.36%) High Availability
7 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.82%) Computer Science
8 3 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (6.82%) ITIL
8 3 (6.82%) Observability
8 3 (6.82%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (6.82%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (18.18%) CCNP
3 7 (15.91%) CCNA
3 7 (15.91%) Degree
4 6 (13.64%) CCIE
5 4 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
6 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.55%) CCSA
7 2 (4.55%) CCSE
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.27%) CCDE
8 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) SLA
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.27%) OpenView
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 41 (93.18%) Cisco
2 25 (56.82%) Meraki
3 19 (43.18%) Fortinet
4 18 (40.91%) CheckPoint
5 16 (36.36%) Palo Alto
6 13 (29.55%) SolarWinds
7 11 (25.00%) Dynatrace
8 10 (22.73%) Juniper
9 9 (20.45%) ServiceNow
10 7 (15.91%) Arista
11 5 (11.36%) Aruba
12 3 (6.82%) F5
13 2 (4.55%) Ekahau
13 2 (4.55%) Google
13 2 (4.55%) HP
14 1 (2.27%) ArcSight
14 1 (2.27%) Dell
14 1 (2.27%) EMC
14 1 (2.27%) ExtraHop
14 1 (2.27%) Zscaler