MPLS Jobs in the North of England

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England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 320 331
Rank change year-on-year +27 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 15 73 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.87% 3.39% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3 63 68
10th Percentile £36,000 - £36,250
25th Percentile £43,125 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £79,125
England median annual salary £64,800 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +29.60% -9.09% -7.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,720 2,156 3,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.70% 12.48% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 867 1,653 1,291
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £26,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £57,750
90th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the North of England.

Salary trend for MPLS in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MPLS in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MPLS in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West -13 8 £65,000 +62.50% 6
Yorkshire +57 7 £43,750 -27.08% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) Firewall
2 11 (73.33%) WAN
3 8 (53.33%) BGP
3 8 (53.33%) OSPF
3 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (46.67%) SD-WAN
5 5 (33.33%) VPN
5 5 (33.33%) Wireless
6 4 (26.67%) DNS
7 2 (13.33%) VoIP
8 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
8 1 (6.67%) IPv4
8 1 (6.67%) IPv6
8 1 (6.67%) Network Security
8 1 (6.67%) VXLAN
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Junior
2 4 (26.67%) Junior Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Junior Technical Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Junior Technical Support
2 4 (26.67%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Support
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) CCTV
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (40.00%) Line Management
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 5 (33.33%) ITSM
2 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 5 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Customer Experience
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Network Design
6 1 (6.67%) Business Continuity
6 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2
6 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Chartered Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) FortiGate
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (40.00%) WSUS
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) Proxmox
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (6.67%) Ansible
5 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 10 (66.67%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) Cisco
3 5 (33.33%) Draytek
3 5 (33.33%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper