MPLS Job Trends in Manchester

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring MPLS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 162 179
Rank change year-on-year -28 +17 +3
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 3 3 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.044% 0.12% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.99% 1.27% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35,500 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 - £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.69%
75th Percentile £36,500 - £47,500
90th Percentile - - £55,000
North West median annual salary £36,000 - £47,250
% change year-on-year - - -39.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 304 237 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.42% 9.53% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 223 114 235
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,300 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £31,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £38,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -23.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £74,875 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £73,987
North West median annual salary £42,000 £33,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +27.27% -28.65% -10.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

MPLS job vacancy trend in Manchester

MPLS
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MPLS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MPLS

MPLS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) HSRP
2 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) VRRP
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) NGN
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Network Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
20 MPLS jobs in England