MPLS Jobs in the North West

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 232 261
Rank change year-on-year -44 +29 +31
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 10 55 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.13% 0.54% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.74% 4.68% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 51 13
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £78,750
90th Percentile - £63,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £63,750 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +24.39% -6.82% -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,350 1,174 1,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.38% 11.48% 21.01%
Number of salaries quoted 421 896 671
10th Percentile - £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,500 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for MPLS in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Merseyside +37 6 - - 3
Manchester +33 3 - - 12
Lancashire -74 1 £65,000 +52.94% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
1 7 (70.00%) WAN
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) VoIP
4 1 (10.00%) BGP
4 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) OSPF
4 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Junior
1 6 (60.00%) Junior Support Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Junior Technical Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Junior Technical Support
1 6 (60.00%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Support Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Support
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) CCTV
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Customer Experience
2 6 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Network Design
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Line Management
5 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Proxmox
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper