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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 217 283
Rank change year-on-year -20 +66 +27
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 24 109 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.92% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.74% 6.93% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 20 86 14
10th Percentile £54,750 £25,950 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £26,700 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £48,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.02% -37.42% +55.00%
75th Percentile £76,563 £50,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,125 £61,875 £83,500
England median annual salary £63,550 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.10% -9.09% -8.33%

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 876 1,573 1,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.38% 13.24% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 483 1,292 730
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -0.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

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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 11 May 2025.

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 11 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
West Midlands -21 23 £65,000 +34.02% 8
East Midlands +41 1 £42,500 -15.00% 4
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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 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 19 (79.17%) WAN
2 18 (75.00%) LAN
3 16 (66.67%) BGP
4 14 (58.33%) IPsec
5 13 (54.17%) Cisco IOS
5 13 (54.17%) Junos
6 4 (16.67%) VoIP
6 4 (16.67%) VPN
7 3 (12.50%) Firewall
7 3 (12.50%) Network Security
8 2 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (8.33%) Ethernet
8 2 (8.33%) Internet
8 2 (8.33%) OSPF
8 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
8 2 (8.33%) VLAN
8 2 (8.33%) Wireless
8 2 (8.33%) WLAN
9 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Architect
2 17 (70.83%) Network Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Network Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Juniper Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Network Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Jinja
1 1 (4.17%) OpenConfig
1 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.33%) CCTV
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
2 14 (58.33%) Network Design
3 9 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 3 (12.50%) Network Management
5 2 (8.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (8.33%) ITIL
5 2 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (4.17%) Business Continuity
6 1 (4.17%) Change Control
6 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.17%) Contingency Planning
6 1 (4.17%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (4.17%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (4.17%) Observability
6 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (4.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Cisco Certification
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (66.67%) CCNA
2 16 (66.67%) CCNP
3 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
4 14 (58.33%) JNCIS
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (8.33%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) CCIE
6 1 (4.17%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Nagios
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Cisco
2 17 (70.83%) Juniper
3 4 (16.67%) Meraki
4 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.33%) Aruba
5 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
5 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.33%) SevOne
5 2 (8.33%) VMware
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds