MPLS Contracts in the Midlands

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 78 186
Rank change year-on-year -34 +108 -16
Contract jobs citing MPLS 24 65 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.90% 2.34% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.69% 11.97% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 20
10th Percentile £318 £258 £325
25th Percentile £363 £271 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £413
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -15.15% +13.79%
75th Percentile £453 £400 £446
90th Percentile £500 £451 £502
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +0.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 359 543 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 19.53% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 302 398
10th Percentile £173 £213 £179
25th Percentile £291 £313 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -3.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £616 £538 £538
90th Percentile £715 £664 £629
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 29 16
10th Percentile £20.30 £17.05 £15.38
25th Percentile £22.18 £23.00 £16.89
Median hourly rate £24.20 £27.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.40% +45.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.50 £26.91
90th Percentile - - £46.13
England median hourly rate £49.50 £56.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.37% +25.53% +117.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for MPLS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for MPLS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MPLS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MPLS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for MPLS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
West Midlands -43 17 £425 +21.43% 6
East Midlands - 7 £375 - 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 20 (83.33%) WAN
2 13 (54.17%) BGP
2 13 (54.17%) LAN
3 12 (50.00%) Firewall
4 11 (45.83%) DHCP
4 11 (45.83%) DNS
5 10 (41.67%) IPsec
5 10 (41.67%) VLAN
6 9 (37.50%) VPN
7 8 (33.33%) TCP/IP
8 7 (29.17%) Network Security
8 7 (29.17%) OSPF
8 7 (29.17%) Wireless
9 6 (25.00%) EIGRP
9 6 (25.00%) Junos
9 6 (25.00%) SD-WAN
10 5 (20.83%) Frame Relay
10 5 (20.83%) IPv6
10 5 (20.83%) Multicast
10 5 (20.83%) SNMP
General
1 5 (20.83%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Network Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) WAN Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 6 (25.00%) Network Architect
4 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Transmission Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Network Support
5 2 (8.33%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Project Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Voice Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Voice Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) PKI
2 3 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 5 (20.83%) Network Management
3 3 (12.50%) Break/Fix
3 3 (12.50%) High Availability
3 3 (12.50%) Key Management
3 3 (12.50%) Migration
3 3 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (12.50%) Time Management
4 1 (4.17%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.17%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.17%) Network Design
4 1 (4.17%) Project Management
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) CCIE
4 4 (16.67%) CCNA
4 4 (16.67%) CCNP
5 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco
2 7 (29.17%) Avaya
2 7 (29.17%) Juniper
2 7 (29.17%) VMware
3 6 (25.00%) Aerohive Networks
3 6 (25.00%) Mitel
3 6 (25.00%) NetApp
3 6 (25.00%) Nortel
3 6 (25.00%) Veeam
4 3 (12.50%) BT
4 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft