The first table below looks at the demand for VRRP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VRRP 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.373% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.128% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
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
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
47 46 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 17.54% 18.04% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 25
Average daily rate £360 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.76% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £214 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
Average hourly rate £15.00 £30.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -17.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.00 £24.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.25 £35.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
VRRP
Yorkshire

VRRP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire VRRP Daily 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Doncaster - 1 £450 -
VRRP
Yorkshire

VRRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) TippingPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) HSRP
2 1 (50.00%) GLBP
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) SecurID
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) NetScout
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) L2TP
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL

VRRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 1 (50.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) L2TP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) HSRP
2 1 (50.00%) GLBP
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Support
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) NetScout
2 1 (50.00%) TippingPoint