MPLS Contracts in Somerset

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset requiring MPLS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MPLS over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -
Contract jobs citing MPLS 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 5.29% 1.05% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.25% 7.69% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £347
25th Percentile £616 - £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £250 £393
Median % change year-on-year +153.00% -36.31% -
75th Percentile £649 - £423
90th Percentile - - £432
South West median daily rate £633 £450 £433
% change year-on-year +40.56% +4.05% -8.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

MPLS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 32 26 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 16.93% 13.68% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 23
10th Percentile £196 £136 £225
25th Percentile £369 £226 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £463
90th Percentile £669 £744 £514
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +11.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 6
10th Percentile - £37.38 £15.44
25th Percentile £12.50 £48.31 £17.01
Median hourly rate £13.00 £51.89 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -74.95% +37.46% +60.64%
75th Percentile £13.50 £55.47 £56.00
90th Percentile - £55.61 £57.84
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £56.49 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.06% -13.09% +36.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in Somerset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MPLS in Somerset.

Daily rate trend for MPLS in Somerset

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Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bath +5 9 £633 -
Street - 1 - -
MPLS
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 9 (90.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) BGP
1 9 (90.00%) DNS
1 9 (90.00%) IPsec
1 9 (90.00%) Unified Communications
1 9 (90.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Switch Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Telephony Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) NETCONF
1 9 (90.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Critical Thinking
1 9 (90.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 9 (90.00%) NsoIT
1 9 (90.00%) Service Management
1 9 (90.00%) System Testing
1 9 (90.00%) Validation
2 1 (10.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Network Design
2 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) CCNP
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (90.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) VMware ESXi
1 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Atlassian
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
1 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft