MPLS Jobs in the South West

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England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 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 269 213 293
Rank change year-on-year -56 +80 -35
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 26 42 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.65% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.03% 3.42% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 23 27 27
10th Percentile £41,500 £38,353 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -1.96% +10.27%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,500
90th Percentile £56,250 £60,250 £63,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,283 1,229 1,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.15% 19.06% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 953 527 731
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,725 £77,715 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for MPLS in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing MPLS in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for MPLS in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the South West 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire -13 14 £50,000 -4.76% 1
Devon -15 7 £45,000 -12.20%
Somerset -3 2 £50,000 +17.65%
Bristol -22 2 £42,500 -20.93%
Dorset -33 1 £45,000 -34.55% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (19.23%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 15 (57.69%) WAN
2 12 (46.15%) BGP
3 11 (42.31%) LAN
3 11 (42.31%) SD-WAN
4 9 (34.62%) WLAN
5 8 (30.77%) Firewall
6 7 (26.92%) VPLS
7 6 (23.08%) OSPF
7 6 (23.08%) Wireless
8 5 (19.23%) GSM
8 5 (19.23%) NetScaler
8 5 (19.23%) Network Security
8 5 (19.23%) PABX
8 5 (19.23%) VLAN
8 5 (19.23%) VSAT
8 5 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (15.38%) DWDM
9 4 (15.38%) Ethernet
9 4 (15.38%) GPON
9 4 (15.38%) SDH
General
1 3 (11.54%) Military
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Network Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Network Operations Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Support
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
1 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Solaris
3 2 (7.69%) VMS
3 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
2 5 (19.23%) Cloud Security
2 5 (19.23%) Network Management
3 3 (11.54%) Analytics
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
3 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (11.54%) Network Optimisation
4 2 (7.69%) Configuration Management
4 2 (7.69%) CRM
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) ERP
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (7.69%) IT Strategy
4 2 (7.69%) Problem Management
4 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.69%) Process Improvement
4 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) CCNA
1 10 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) CCDP
3 4 (15.38%) CCIE
3 4 (15.38%) CCNP
4 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.54%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) HNC
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Nagios
1 5 (19.23%) OfficeScan
1 5 (19.23%) WSUS
2 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Cisco
2 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (30.77%) Fortinet
4 7 (26.92%) CheckPoint
5 6 (23.08%) Juniper
6 5 (19.23%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 5 (19.23%) Centreon
6 5 (19.23%) Meraki
7 2 (7.69%) Dell
7 2 (7.69%) F5
7 2 (7.69%) Google
7 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
7 2 (7.69%) VMware
8 1 (3.85%) Citrix
8 1 (3.85%) HP