Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 382 593
Rank change year-on-year -156 +211 -26
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 253 458 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.77% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.49% 5.11% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 145 293 557
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,950 £85,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,167 8,963 17,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 15.08% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,126 6,750 10,879
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,768 £28,528
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the UK

MPLS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for MPLS in the UK

MPLS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MPLS over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for MPLS in the UK

MPLS
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 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
England -142 247 £60,000 +9.09% 63
UK excluding London -122 181 £55,000 - 42
Work from Home -32 75 £62,300 +13.27% 85
North of England -31 73 £55,000 -4.35% 11
London -66 70 £72,500 +11.54% 26
South East -52 53 £55,000 -24.14% 8
North West -13 49 £55,000 -26.67% 5
Midlands -52 27 £61,000 -18.67% 8
West Midlands -46 26 £62,000 -22.50% 6
Yorkshire +13 23 £60,000 +20.00% 6
East of England -47 18 £65,000 -21.21% 4
South West -51 18 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Scotland -28 1 - - 5
East Midlands -36 1 £55,000 -4.35% 2
North East -42 1 £80,000 -5.88%

MPLS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.58%) Apache
2 4 (1.58%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 80 (31.62%) Azure
2 36 (14.23%) AWS
3 18 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.93%) SaaS
5 14 (5.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 14 (5.53%) IaaS
6 12 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.35%) PaaS
8 10 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.37%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.37%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.58%) Route 53
10 4 (1.58%) Serverless
11 2 (0.79%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.79%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 139 (54.94%) WAN
2 131 (51.78%) BGP
3 127 (50.20%) Firewall
4 98 (38.74%) OSPF
5 88 (34.78%) LAN
6 67 (26.48%) SD-WAN
7 54 (21.34%) VPN
8 50 (19.76%) Network Security
9 49 (19.37%) Wireless
10 41 (16.21%) TCP/IP
11 40 (15.81%) WLAN
12 32 (12.65%) VLAN
13 29 (11.46%) Wi-Fi
14 27 (10.67%) Internet
15 25 (9.88%) Cisco ASA
15 25 (9.88%) Cisco Nexus
16 23 (9.09%) DHCP
16 23 (9.09%) DNS
17 22 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
18 19 (7.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Git
2 1 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 56 (22.13%) Telecoms
2 30 (11.86%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.32%) Finance
4 14 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.35%) Law
6 10 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.77%) Retail
9 4 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.58%) Local Government
10 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.79%) Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Front Office
11 2 (0.79%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Billing
12 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 126 (49.80%) Network Engineer
2 65 (25.69%) Senior
3 46 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
4 30 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (11.07%) IP Engineer
6 22 (8.70%) IP Network Engineer
7 21 (8.30%) Architect
8 17 (6.72%) Network Architect
9 16 (6.32%) Core Network Engineer
9 16 (6.32%) Lead
10 15 (5.93%) Consultant
10 15 (5.93%) Network Consultant
11 13 (5.14%) Juniper Engineer
11 13 (5.14%) Senior Core Network Engineer
11 13 (5.14%) Senior IP Engineer
11 13 (5.14%) Senior IP Network Engineer
12 10 (3.95%) Junior
12 10 (3.95%) NOC Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Field Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Network Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.77%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.58%) LAPP Stack
2 4 (1.58%) Web Services
3 2 (0.79%) LDAP
4 1 (0.40%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.40%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 87 (34.39%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.93%) Driving Licence
3 12 (4.74%) IoT
4 10 (3.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 8 (3.16%) Replication
6 7 (2.77%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.37%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.98%) Robotics
9 4 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.58%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.58%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.79%) Clustering
11 2 (0.79%) PKI
11 2 (0.79%) SCADA
12 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.40%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.95%) Linux
2 7 (2.77%) Windows
3 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.19%) VMS
5 2 (0.79%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.79%) Solaris
5 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (15.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (14.62%) Network Management
3 35 (13.83%) Network Monitoring
4 34 (13.44%) ITIL
5 32 (12.65%) Roadmaps
6 28 (11.07%) Migration
6 28 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (10.28%) Customer Service
9 25 (9.88%) Mentoring
10 24 (9.49%) Network Design
11 20 (7.91%) Network Architecture
11 20 (7.91%) Network Virtualisation
12 17 (6.72%) Change Control
13 16 (6.32%) DevOps
14 15 (5.93%) Service Design
15 14 (5.53%) Coaching
15 14 (5.53%) Presales
16 13 (5.14%) IT Strategy
16 13 (5.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.07%) Python
2 22 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.16%) PHP
4 6 (2.37%) Perl
4 6 (2.37%) SQL
5 4 (1.58%) Bash
6 2 (0.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 98 (38.74%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (27.67%) CCNP
3 45 (17.79%) CCNA
4 23 (9.09%) CCIE
5 22 (8.70%) Security Cleared
6 20 (7.91%) JNCIS
7 16 (6.32%) SC Cleared
8 15 (5.93%) JNCIP
9 9 (3.56%) Degree
10 8 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.37%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 6 (2.37%) JNCIE
12 5 (1.98%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.98%) CCDP
13 4 (1.58%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.58%) CCSA
13 4 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (1.19%) CCDA
14 3 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.79%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.93%) PCI DSS
2 13 (5.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (3.16%) SLA
5 5 (1.98%) NCSC
6 4 (1.58%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 24 (9.49%) Hyper-V
2 16 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.98%) vSphere
5 3 (1.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.79%) Firmware
6 2 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (10.28%) Ansible
2 20 (7.91%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.77%) Nessus
3 7 (2.77%) WSUS
4 6 (2.37%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.37%) Puppet
5 4 (1.58%) Terraform
6 3 (1.19%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.40%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.40%) VxRail
Vendors
1 147 (58.10%) Cisco
2 82 (32.41%) Juniper
3 50 (19.76%) Microsoft
4 37 (14.62%) Fortinet
5 36 (14.23%) Palo Alto
6 35 (13.83%) VMware
7 25 (9.88%) Nokia
8 23 (9.09%) SolarWinds
9 21 (8.30%) HP
10 19 (7.51%) CheckPoint
11 18 (7.11%) Meraki
12 12 (4.74%) F5
13 11 (4.35%) Aruba
13 11 (4.35%) Dell
13 11 (4.35%) Openreach
14 10 (3.95%) Darktrace
14 10 (3.95%) Extreme Networks
14 10 (3.95%) NEC
14 10 (3.95%) Veeam
15 6 (2.37%) Riverbed