The first table below looks at the demand for VRRP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VRRP over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Rank 383 399 433
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +34
Contract jobs citing VRRP 2 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.026% 0.013%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.070% 0.191% 0.118%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £263 £358 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.57% +19.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £428 £294
% change year-on-year
-12.33% +45.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.63 - £20.00
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2861 3664 3392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.25% 13.68% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1759 2236 1957
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 145 211
Average hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
VRRP
England

VRRP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London VRRP Daily Rate Trend

VRRP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London VRRP Hourly Rate Trend

VRRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) OSPF
2 7 (87.50%) IPsec
2 7 (87.50%) HSRP
3 6 (75.00%) CCNP
3 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (75.00%) BGP
4 5 (62.50%) EIGRP
4 5 (62.50%) TACACS
4 5 (62.50%) RIP
4 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (62.50%) LAN
4 5 (62.50%) WAN
5 4 (50.00%) Change Management
5 4 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (50.00%) Network Management
5 4 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (50.00%) SNMP
5 4 (50.00%) CCNA
6 3 (37.50%) MPLS
6 3 (37.50%) CCIE
6 3 (37.50%) VPN
6 3 (37.50%) Blue Coat
6 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
6 3 (37.50%) VPLS
6 3 (37.50%) Wireless
6 3 (37.50%) Finance
6 3 (37.50%) Banking
7 2 (25.00%) OPNET
7 2 (25.00%) Telecoms

VRRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) OSPF
2 7 (87.50%) IPsec
2 7 (87.50%) HSRP
3 6 (75.00%) BGP
4 5 (62.50%) EIGRP
4 5 (62.50%) TACACS
4 5 (62.50%) RIP
4 5 (62.50%) LAN
4 5 (62.50%) WAN
4 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
5 4 (50.00%) SNMP
5 4 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (37.50%) MPLS
6 3 (37.50%) Wireless
6 3 (37.50%) VPLS
6 3 (37.50%) VPN
7 2 (25.00%) DNS
7 2 (25.00%) DHCP
7 2 (25.00%) Internet
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Market Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
1 4 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) CCNP
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) CCNA
3 3 (37.50%) CCIE
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
5 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) Check Point Certification
5 1 (12.50%) CCIP
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Blue Coat
3 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (25.00%) Remedy
3 2 (25.00%) BT
3 2 (25.00%) OPNET
4 1 (12.50%) Avaya
4 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint