MPLS Job Trends in Scotland

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring MPLS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 151 149
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +74
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 4 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% 0.030% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.38% 0.32% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 - £53,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.22%
75th Percentile £77,750 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £58,250 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.92% +9.09% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 290 313 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.95% 9.45% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 169 156 465
10th Percentile - £29,750 -
25th Percentile £25,087 £37,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £51,250 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +83.04% -41.30%
75th Percentile £38,750 £67,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.62% +5.00% -4.76%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

MPLS job vacancy trend in Scotland

MPLS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MPLS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MPLS

MPLS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Glasgow +7 3 - - 4
Edinburgh - 1 £74,500 -
MPLS
UK

MPLS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (25.00%) OSPF
4 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) People Management
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) VMware