The first table below looks at the demand for HSRP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HSRP over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
Rank - 218 244
Contract jobs citing HSRP 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.099% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £325 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £293 £413
% change year-on-year
+6.92% -29.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
822 1010 1017
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.94% 12.83% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 687 654
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £265 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 38 76
Average hourly rate £44.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
HSRP
London

HSRP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HSRP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London HSRP Jobs Demand Trend

HSRP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HSRP across the City of London region.

City of London HSRP Daily Rate Trend

HSRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing HSRP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HSRP.

1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) OSPF
3 3 (60.00%) MPLS
3 3 (60.00%) Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) IPsec
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (40.00%) Network Management
4 2 (40.00%) MRTG
4 2 (40.00%) Riverbed
4 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) WLAN
4 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (40.00%) OPNET
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) CCNA
4 2 (40.00%) BGP
4 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
4 2 (40.00%) VRRP
5 1 (20.00%) CCDP
5 1 (20.00%) CiscoWorks
5 1 (20.00%) Legal
5 1 (20.00%) CCVP
5 1 (20.00%) Mitel

HSRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing HSRP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HSRP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
1 4 (80.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) Wireless
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (40.00%) MRTG
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) WLAN
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (40.00%) VRRP
4 1 (20.00%) ADSL
4 1 (20.00%) ATM
4 1 (20.00%) ISDN
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (20.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Network Management
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCDP
3 1 (20.00%) CCVP
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (40.00%) Riverbed
3 2 (40.00%) OPNET
4 1 (20.00%) Mitel
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) F5