MPLS Jobs in the Midlands

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 260 325
Rank change year-on-year +23 +65 -46
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 70 27 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.60% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.05% 1.88% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 53 12 47
10th Percentile - £42,500 £28,650
25th Percentile £26,700 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.71% +27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £58,750 £79,063 £76,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,386 1,438 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.93% 18.94% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 947 710 1,127
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,813 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £44,625 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -6.05% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,819 £75,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for MPLS in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing MPLS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for MPLS in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
West Midlands +51 68 £45,000 -41.94% 4
East Midlands -38 2 £50,000 -28.57%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.29%) Azure
2 9 (12.86%) AWS
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.86%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) Rubrik
4 2 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.43%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 48 (68.57%) WAN
2 34 (48.57%) BGP
2 34 (48.57%) IPsec
3 24 (34.29%) SD-WAN
4 22 (31.43%) VPN
5 19 (27.14%) LAN
6 18 (25.71%) Firewall
7 16 (22.86%) OSPF
8 14 (20.00%) VoIP
8 14 (20.00%) WLAN
9 13 (18.57%) VLAN
10 9 (12.86%) Wireless
11 7 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (10.00%) EIGRP
11 7 (10.00%) HSRP
11 7 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (10.00%) VRRP
11 7 (10.00%) Wireshark
12 6 (8.57%) Network Security
13 5 (7.14%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) JIRA
1 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (10.00%) Retail
1 7 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.71%) Finance
2 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 18 (25.71%) WAN Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Analyst
3 11 (15.71%) Network Analyst
4 10 (14.29%) Network Operations Analyst
4 10 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
5 9 (12.86%) Senior
6 7 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Design Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) IP Design Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) IP Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Network Analyst
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Firewall Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Presales Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Presales Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) PKI
2 7 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.00%) FMCG
3 2 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Windows
2 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.71%) Load Balancing
2 10 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 9 (12.86%) Network Architecture
4 7 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 7 (10.00%) Change Management
4 7 (10.00%) Demand Management
4 7 (10.00%) High Availability
4 7 (10.00%) Network Design
4 7 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 7 (10.00%) Release Management
5 4 (5.71%) ITIL
5 4 (5.71%) Roadmaps
6 3 (4.29%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (4.29%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (4.29%) Presales
6 3 (4.29%) Reverse Engineering
6 3 (4.29%) Service Management
7 2 (2.86%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (44.29%) Security Cleared
2 25 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 23 (32.86%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (28.57%) CCNP
5 13 (18.57%) CCNA
6 12 (17.14%) CCIE
7 11 (15.71%) CCDP
8 7 (10.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 7 (10.00%) JNCIE
8 7 (10.00%) JNCIP
9 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (4.29%) CCDA
11 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.86%) Degree
11 2 (2.86%) JNCIA
12 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.43%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) SLA
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Firmware
2 4 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) FortiGate
1 2 (2.86%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.43%) Ansible
2 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (54.29%) Juniper
2 26 (37.14%) Cisco
3 8 (11.43%) CheckPoint
3 8 (11.43%) Nokia
3 8 (11.43%) Palo Alto
4 7 (10.00%) Ekahau
4 7 (10.00%) F5
5 6 (8.57%) Fortinet
6 5 (7.14%) Meraki
7 4 (5.71%) Aruba
7 4 (5.71%) Citrix
7 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
7 4 (5.71%) VMware
8 3 (4.29%) Avaya
8 3 (4.29%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.86%) Kaspersky
9 2 (2.86%) Radware
9 2 (2.86%) Sophos
9 2 (2.86%) Veeam
9 2 (2.86%) Veritas