The first table below looks at the demand for VRRP 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 VRRP over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Rank - 211 248
Contract jobs citing VRRP 0 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.013% 0.030%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.107% 0.287%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £388
UK excluding London average daily rate - £712 £413
% change year-on-year
- +72.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.25 - £20.00
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
842 938 1047
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.42% 12.12% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 633 671
Average daily rate £375 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 86
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +10.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £18.10 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £103.80 £41.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
VRRP
London

VRRP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London VRRP Jobs Demand Trend

VRRP
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London VRRP Daily Rate Trend

VRRP
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VRRP 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 VRRP.

1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) OPNET
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) MRTG
1 2 (100.00%) HSRP

VRRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VRRP 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 VRRP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) MRTG
1 2 (100.00%) HSRP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) OPNET
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds