MPLS Jobs in the Thames Valley

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 214 215 256
Rank change year-on-year +1 +41 -68
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 37 32 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.50% 0.57% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.73% 3.44% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 26 17 30
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,050 £32,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +35.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £81,250 £81,625
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.68% -17.92% +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 993 930 1,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.41% 16.70% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 684 539 739
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £37,389
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,875 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% +4.97%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing MPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for MPLS in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for MPLS in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPLS within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +19 25 £68,750 -11.29% 4
Buckinghamshire -12 10 £80,000 +80.79% 3
Oxfordshire -13 2 £50,000 -9.09%
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
2 2 (5.41%) GCP
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.70%) Rubrik
3 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) BGP
2 11 (29.73%) OSPF
3 7 (18.92%) Firewall
3 7 (18.92%) VPN
3 7 (18.92%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (16.22%) SD-WAN
4 6 (16.22%) Wireless
5 5 (13.51%) Network Security
5 5 (13.51%) SNMP
6 4 (10.81%) DNS
6 4 (10.81%) IPsec
6 4 (10.81%) WAN
7 3 (8.11%) DMZ
7 3 (8.11%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (8.11%) SSL
8 2 (5.41%) DWDM
8 2 (5.41%) Ethernet
8 2 (5.41%) Junos
8 2 (5.41%) LAN
8 2 (5.41%) SDH
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 7 (18.92%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.70%) Billing
2 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.70%) Marketing
2 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Network Engineer
2 14 (37.84%) IP Engineer
2 14 (37.84%) Juniper Engineer
3 10 (27.03%) Senior
3 10 (27.03%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Core Network Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) IP Network Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Senior Core Network Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Senior IP Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Senior IP Network Engineer
5 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Design Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) IP Design Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Professional Services Engineer
7 5 (13.51%) Operations Director
8 3 (8.11%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Presales Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Presales Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.41%) SCADA
4 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) ITIL
1 8 (21.62%) Network Design
2 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (13.51%) B2B
4 5 (13.51%) Budgeting
4 5 (13.51%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (13.51%) Coaching
4 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (13.51%) Contract Negotiation
4 5 (13.51%) Cost Management
4 5 (13.51%) High Availability
4 5 (13.51%) Network Management
4 5 (13.51%) Security Management
4 5 (13.51%) Service Management
4 5 (13.51%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (8.11%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (8.11%) Presales
5 3 (8.11%) Reverse Engineering
6 2 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) JNCIE
1 6 (16.22%) JNCIP
2 3 (8.11%) CCNA
2 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.41%) CCNP
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) CCSA
4 1 (2.70%) CCSE
4 1 (2.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GDPR
1 5 (13.51%) HIPAA
1 5 (13.51%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Juniper
2 16 (43.24%) Nokia
3 10 (27.03%) Cisco
4 8 (21.62%) Aruba
4 8 (21.62%) Palo Alto
5 6 (16.22%) Extreme Networks
5 6 (16.22%) Infoblox
6 5 (13.51%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.41%) HP
8 1 (2.70%) Blue Coat
8 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.70%) Citrix
8 1 (2.70%) Commvault
8 1 (2.70%) Dell
8 1 (2.70%) EMC
8 1 (2.70%) McAfee
8 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.70%) Sophos
8 1 (2.70%) Veritas
8 1 (2.70%) VMware