MPLS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 502 430 518
Rank change year-on-year -72 +88 -96
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 209 258 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.60% 2.85% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 165 121 294
10th Percentile £26,700 £37,000 £33,063
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £73,000 £76,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,042 9,068 11,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.32% 18.83% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,374 4,409 6,985
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MPLS in the UK excluding London

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for MPLS in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands +23 70 £48,500 -30.71% 4
West Midlands +51 68 £45,000 -41.94% 4
North of England +7 61 £51,250 +13.89% 14
South East -6 59 £62,500 +13.64% 13
North West +2 37 £46,500 -36.95% 10
Yorkshire +53 28 £60,000 +33.33% 4
East of England -4 19 £45,000 -25.00% 4
South West -38 15 £48,500 -3.00% 3
Wales +29 10 £41,067 +71.11%
North East -15 3 £62,500 -19.35% 1
East Midlands -38 2 £50,000 -28.57%
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MPLS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.39%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 48 (22.97%) Azure
2 29 (13.88%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (10.05%) AWS
4 9 (4.31%) SaaS
5 7 (3.35%) GCP
6 5 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (2.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (2.39%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.39%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.91%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.44%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.48%) IaaS
10 1 (0.48%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.48%) PaaS
10 1 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 136 (65.07%) WAN
2 85 (40.67%) Firewall
3 83 (39.71%) BGP
4 63 (30.14%) LAN
5 62 (29.67%) SD-WAN
6 58 (27.75%) OSPF
7 51 (24.40%) VPN
8 44 (21.05%) IPsec
9 39 (18.66%) Wireless
10 37 (17.70%) TCP/IP
11 35 (16.75%) Wi-Fi
12 32 (15.31%) VLAN
13 27 (12.92%) VoIP
14 26 (12.44%) WLAN
15 25 (11.96%) DHCP
15 25 (11.96%) Network Security
16 18 (8.61%) DNS
17 17 (8.13%) Ethernet
18 14 (6.70%) 4G
18 14 (6.70%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (0.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (15.31%) Telecoms
2 17 (8.13%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.35%) Finance
4 7 (3.35%) Retail
5 4 (1.91%) Marketing
6 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.44%) Local Government
6 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.44%) Police
7 2 (0.96%) Law
7 2 (0.96%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.48%) Billing
8 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Military
8 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (47.85%) Network Engineer
2 42 (20.10%) Senior
3 31 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (12.92%) Senior Network Engineer
5 25 (11.96%) IP Engineer
6 23 (11.00%) Juniper Engineer
7 18 (8.61%) WAN Engineer
8 17 (8.13%) IP Network Engineer
9 15 (7.18%) Analyst
9 15 (7.18%) Network Analyst
10 14 (6.70%) Network Operations Analyst
10 14 (6.70%) Operations Analyst
11 13 (6.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 13 (6.22%) Cisco Engineer
12 12 (5.74%) Core Network Engineer
12 12 (5.74%) Senior IP Engineer
13 11 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 11 (5.26%) Senior Core Network Engineer
13 11 (5.26%) Senior IP Network Engineer
14 8 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.39%) NETCONF
2 2 (0.96%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.48%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.48%) Middleware
3 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 17 (8.13%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.70%) IoT
4 8 (3.83%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.83%) PKI
5 7 (3.35%) FMCG
5 7 (3.35%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.87%) ARM Cortex
6 6 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.39%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.96%) Clustering
9 2 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.96%) SCADA
10 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.13%) Windows
2 16 (7.66%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.87%) VyOS
3 6 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (2.39%) Linux
5 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.44%) VMS
7 2 (0.96%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (16.27%) Cybersecurity
1 34 (16.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (15.31%) Customer Service
3 25 (11.96%) Network Management
4 20 (9.57%) ITIL
5 19 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (8.61%) High Availability
7 17 (8.13%) Network Monitoring
8 15 (7.18%) Network Design
9 14 (6.70%) Data Management
10 13 (6.22%) Project Delivery
10 13 (6.22%) Project Management
11 11 (5.26%) Load Balancing
11 11 (5.26%) Network Virtualisation
12 10 (4.78%) Network Architecture
13 9 (4.31%) Change Control
13 9 (4.31%) Configuration Management
13 9 (4.31%) Information Security
14 8 (3.83%) Capacity Planning
14 8 (3.83%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.83%) PowerShell
2 2 (0.96%) Bicep
2 2 (0.96%) Python
3 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.48%) SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (35.89%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (25.36%) CCNA
3 47 (22.49%) Security Cleared
4 44 (21.05%) CCNP
5 31 (14.83%) SC Cleared
6 22 (10.53%) CCIE
7 20 (9.57%) CCDP
8 14 (6.70%) JNCIA
9 12 (5.74%) Degree
10 9 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (4.31%) JNCIP
10 9 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (3.83%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 8 (3.83%) JNCIE
12 7 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (2.87%) CTC Cleared
14 5 (2.39%) Azure Certification
14 5 (2.39%) MCSE
15 4 (1.91%) CCDA
16 3 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (6.22%) SLA
3 11 (5.26%) GDPR
4 6 (2.87%) COSHH
5 5 (2.39%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (12.92%) Hyper-V
2 22 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.31%) Firmware
5 4 (1.91%) vCloud
6 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (8.13%) FortiGate
2 7 (3.35%) WSUS
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.44%) BMC PATROL
4 3 (1.44%) Endace
4 3 (1.44%) Nagios
4 3 (1.44%) OfficeScan
4 3 (1.44%) Terraform
4 3 (1.44%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.96%) Ansible
5 2 (0.96%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.96%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.96%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 107 (51.20%) Cisco
2 75 (35.89%) Juniper
3 42 (20.10%) Fortinet
4 35 (16.75%) Microsoft
4 35 (16.75%) Nokia
5 27 (12.92%) Meraki
6 24 (11.48%) HP
7 22 (10.53%) VMware
8 17 (8.13%) Palo Alto
9 14 (6.70%) Darktrace
9 14 (6.70%) NEC
10 13 (6.22%) Aruba
10 13 (6.22%) CheckPoint
10 13 (6.22%) Dell
11 12 (5.74%) F5
12 11 (5.26%) Ruckus Wireless
12 11 (5.26%) SolarWinds
13 7 (3.35%) Ekahau
14 6 (2.87%) Ribbon
14 6 (2.87%) Vyatta