MPLS Job Trends in Wiltshire

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring MPLS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 76 72
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +7
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 3 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 0.53% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.00% 0.78% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43,025
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £47,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +11.59% +8.37%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £68,938
90th Percentile - - £74,075
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 100 128 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 17.73% 16.58% 16.96%
Number of salaries quoted 51 81 94
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £28,825
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% +12.24% +16.80%
75th Percentile £56,250 £81,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £93,750 £71,750
South West median annual salary £33,500 £51,058 £49,000
% change year-on-year -34.39% +4.20% +3.16%

MPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

MPLS job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

MPLS
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing MPLS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing MPLS

MPLS
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Swindon - 3 £67,500 -
MPLS
South West

MPLS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) NGFW
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Engineering Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineering Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto