MPLS Contracts in the East Midlands

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
Contract jobs citing MPLS 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.46% - 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.85% - 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £411 - £294
25th Percentile £484 - £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £356
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £591 - £425
90th Percentile £596 - £444
England median daily rate £400 £486 £500
% change year-on-year -17.70% -2.80% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 104 129 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.97% 13.00% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 105 124
10th Percentile £188 £261 £166
25th Percentile £313 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £394
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% +15.67% +9.38%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £478
90th Percentile £659 £709 £550
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £12.47 £20.09 £15.06
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.22 £16.41
Median hourly rate £14.27 £22.26 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year -35.89% +13.98% +30.20%
75th Percentile £26.15 £40.25 £23.13
90th Percentile - - £23.68
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 East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Northamptonshire - 3 £575 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £375 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) IT Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) HIPAA
1 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Aerohive Networks
1 1 (25.00%) Avaya
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Mitel
1 1 (25.00%) NetApp
1 1 (25.00%) Nortel
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam
1 1 (25.00%) VMware