MPLS Contracts in the West Midlands

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England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 107 153
Rank change year-on-year +77 +46 -24
Contract jobs citing MPLS 96 22 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.70% 0.99% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.95% 5.87% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 7 12
10th Percentile £263 - £209
25th Percentile £313 £263 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £275 £425
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -35.29% +17.24%
75th Percentile £388 £363 £484
90th Percentile £516 £423 £599
England median daily rate £400 £486 £500
% change year-on-year -17.70% -2.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £13.40 - -
25th Percentile £13.63 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.00 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile - £13.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -35.48% +138.46% +13.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 370 375 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.12% 16.95% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 223 279
10th Percentile £200 £253 £163
25th Percentile £300 £323 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £451 £413
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +9.21% -0.60%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £545
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 11
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.63 £13.63
Median hourly rate £19.95 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £37.58 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing MPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for MPLS in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MPLS in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Solihull +10 48 £375 - 6
Birmingham +31 32 £350 -9.68% 5
Warwickshire +7 11 £750 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £400 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 83 (86.46%) WAN
2 76 (79.17%) IPsec
3 66 (68.75%) BGP
4 50 (52.08%) VPN
5 47 (48.96%) Junos
6 18 (18.75%) LAN
7 11 (11.46%) SD-WAN
8 10 (10.42%) WLAN
9 9 (9.38%) Internet
9 9 (9.38%) PBX
9 9 (9.38%) VoIP
10 5 (5.21%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (5.21%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (5.21%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (5.21%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (5.21%) DHCP
10 5 (5.21%) DNS
10 5 (5.21%) Firewall
11 4 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (3.13%) Ethernet
General
1 12 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.21%) Finance
4 3 (3.13%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (34.38%) Network Engineer
2 31 (32.29%) Network Support
3 25 (26.04%) WAN Engineer
4 24 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 22 (22.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 15 (15.63%) Architect
7 12 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (10.42%) Network Architect
8 10 (10.42%) Support Engineer
9 8 (8.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Enterprise Architect
11 5 (5.21%) Network Support Engineer
12 4 (4.17%) Lead
13 3 (3.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 3 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 3 (3.13%) Administrator
13 3 (3.13%) Project Engineer
14 2 (2.08%) Lead Architect
14 2 (2.08%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (53.13%) PKI
2 14 (14.58%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.04%) CMDB
4 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (42.71%) Load Balancing
2 23 (23.96%) Network Design
3 10 (10.42%) Network Architecture
4 9 (9.38%) Analytics
4 9 (9.38%) Architectural Design
4 9 (9.38%) Data Analytics
4 9 (9.38%) Incident Management
4 9 (9.38%) Performance Management
4 9 (9.38%) Programme Management
4 9 (9.38%) SOA
4 9 (9.38%) Storage Management
5 7 (7.29%) ITIL
6 6 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 6 (6.25%) Resource Management
6 6 (6.25%) Technical Architecture
7 5 (5.21%) Project Delivery
7 5 (5.21%) TOGAF
8 4 (4.17%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (4.17%) Requirements Gathering
Qualifications
1 76 (79.17%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (10.42%) CCNP
5 9 (9.38%) CCIE
5 9 (9.38%) CCIE Data Center
6 5 (5.21%) CCNA
6 5 (5.21%) JNCIS
7 3 (3.13%) BC Cleared
7 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) SLA
2 2 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.17%) Hyper-V
1 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 76 (79.17%) Juniper
2 20 (20.83%) Cisco
3 5 (5.21%) CheckPoint
3 5 (5.21%) Infoblox
3 5 (5.21%) Palo Alto
3 5 (5.21%) Symantec
3 5 (5.21%) Zscaler
4 4 (4.17%) VMware
5 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.08%) BT
6 2 (2.08%) Openreach