The first table below looks at the demand for VRRP skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VRRP over the 3 months to 22 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 England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Rank 507 549 546
Rank change year-on-year
+42 -3
Contract jobs citing VRRP 7 21 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.017% 0.039% 0.032%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.113% 0.246% 0.248%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
Average daily rate £375 £358 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.82% +0.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £333 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £428 £294
% change year-on-year
+5.14% +45.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £22.25 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.63 - £20.00
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6186 8529 7249
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.65% 15.72% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3095 3986 3361
Average daily rate £350 £366 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.29% +4.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 577 738
Average hourly rate £22.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
VRRP
UK

VRRP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England VRRP Daily Rate Trend

VRRP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VRRP across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England VRRP Daily Rate Histogram

VRRP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VRRP across the England region.

England VRRP Hourly Rate Trend

VRRP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VRRP within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +27 3 £300 -16.08%
Yorkshire - 3 £450 -
East of England - 2 - -
South East +8 1 - -
VRRP
UK

VRRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 28 (93.33%) OSPF
2 25 (83.33%) BGP
2 25 (83.33%) HSRP
3 21 (70.00%) VPN
4 17 (56.67%) Cisco
4 17 (56.67%) Telecoms
5 15 (50.00%) MPLS
6 13 (43.33%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (40.00%) Firewall
7 12 (40.00%) CCNP
7 12 (40.00%) Ethernet
7 12 (40.00%) Network Design
7 12 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
8 11 (36.67%) Capacity Planning
8 11 (36.67%) RSVP
8 11 (36.67%) CCNA
9 10 (33.33%) SNMP
9 10 (33.33%) Network Management
9 10 (33.33%) VLAN
9 10 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (33.33%) IPsec
9 10 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (30.00%) Finance
10 9 (30.00%) CheckPoint
11 8 (26.67%) CSS
12 7 (23.33%) MS Office
12 7 (23.33%) DHCP
12 7 (23.33%) RIP
12 7 (23.33%) Blue Coat
13 6 (20.00%) Cisco ASA

VRRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

Application Development
1 8 (26.67%) CSS
2 1 (3.333%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.333%) Apache
1 1 (3.333%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) MS Office
2 2 (6.667%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 28 (93.33%) OSPF
2 25 (83.33%) BGP
2 25 (83.33%) HSRP
3 21 (70.00%) VPN
4 15 (50.00%) MPLS
5 12 (40.00%) Firewall
5 12 (40.00%) Ethernet
5 12 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (36.67%) RSVP
7 10 (33.33%) SNMP
7 10 (33.33%) VLAN
7 10 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (33.33%) IPsec
7 10 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (23.33%) DHCP
8 7 (23.33%) RIP
9 6 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (20.00%) LTE
9 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
9 6 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.333%) MySQL
General
1 17 (56.67%) Telecoms
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.333%) Retail
4 1 (3.333%) Local Government
4 1 (3.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 22 (73.33%) Network Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Design Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Network Support
4 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.667%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 2 (6.667%) Data Network Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.333%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.333%) Consultant
6 1 (3.333%) UNIX Consultant
6 1 (3.333%) Senior UNIX Consultant
6 1 (3.333%) Market Data Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Transmission Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) SecurID
2 3 (10.00%) Device Driver
3 2 (6.667%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) VMS
2 2 (6.667%) UNIX
3 1 (3.333%) Windows
3 1 (3.333%) Linux
3 1 (3.333%) FreeBSD
3 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.333%) CentOS
3 1 (3.333%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.333%) Fedora
3 1 (3.333%) Debian
3 1 (3.333%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Network Design
2 11 (36.67%) Capacity Planning
3 10 (33.33%) Network Management
4 5 (16.67%) Change Management
4 5 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
6 3 (10.00%) Load Balancing
7 2 (6.667%) Incident Management
8 1 (3.333%) ITIL
8 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2
8 1 (3.333%) Service Management
8 1 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (3.333%) Security Management
8 1 (3.333%) Project Management
8 1 (3.333%) Configuration Management
8 1 (3.333%) Information Assurance
8 1 (3.333%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.333%) Java
1 1 (3.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (40.00%) CCNP
3 11 (36.67%) CCNA
4 3 (10.00%) CCIE
5 2 (6.667%) Degree
6 1 (3.333%) CCIP
6 1 (3.333%) HNC
6 1 (3.333%) HND
6 1 (3.333%) Check Point Certification
6 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.333%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.333%) ProxySG
1 1 (3.333%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Cisco
2 9 (30.00%) CheckPoint
3 7 (23.33%) Blue Coat
4 6 (20.00%) Nokia
5 4 (13.33%) NetScout
5 4 (13.33%) TippingPoint
6 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.667%) OPNET
7 2 (6.667%) BT
7 2 (6.667%) Remedy
8 1 (3.333%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.333%) Avaya
8 1 (3.333%) Juniper
8 1 (3.333%) Mitel
8 1 (3.333%) Huawei
8 1 (3.333%) VMware
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