Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HSRP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HSRP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 682 808
Rank change year-on-year +146 +126 -157
Contract jobs citing HSRP 62 37 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.062% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.10% 0.50% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 23 31
10th Percentile £339 £371 £363
25th Percentile £463 £416 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.08%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £563
90th Percentile £613 £700 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £473
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.73% +37.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

HSRP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

HSRP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HSRP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HSRP.

Daily rate trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HSRP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HSRP.

Hourly rate trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HSRP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +153 61 £520 +4.00% 15
London +129 39 £600 +26.98% 5
UK excluding London +61 22 £475 -5.00% 12
North of England +42 13 £515 -26.43% 1
North West - 13 £515 - 1
Work from Home +133 11 £495 -5.71% 5
South East +19 7 £349 -28.41% 3
West Midlands +22 2 - - 1
Midlands +15 2 - - 2
South West +21 1 £200 - 4

HSRP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 7 (11.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) AWS
1 11 (17.74%) Azure
2 5 (8.06%) OCI
3 3 (4.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 60 (96.77%) BGP
2 43 (69.35%) Firewall
3 41 (66.13%) OSPF
4 37 (59.68%) SNMP
5 33 (53.23%) MPLS
6 31 (50.00%) IPsec
7 30 (48.39%) Cisco ASA
8 29 (46.77%) VRRP
9 27 (43.55%) EIGRP
10 26 (41.94%) Spanning Tree
11 22 (35.48%) IPv4
12 21 (33.87%) VLAN
13 20 (32.26%) VPLS
13 20 (32.26%) VPN
13 20 (32.26%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (30.65%) Cisco ISE
15 18 (29.03%) Ethernet VPN
16 17 (27.42%) Cisco Firepower
16 17 (27.42%) RSVP
17 16 (25.81%) LAN
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Git
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.84%) Finance
4 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (64.52%) Network Engineer
2 18 (29.03%) Senior
3 17 (27.42%) IP Expert
4 15 (24.19%) Senior Network Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Cisco Expert
6 8 (12.90%) Cisco Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Data Centre Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Switch Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) WAN Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) LAN/WAN Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Network Support
10 2 (3.23%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (51.61%) Jinja
2 20 (32.26%) JSON
2 20 (32.26%) NETCONF
2 20 (32.26%) XML
2 20 (32.26%) YANG
3 12 (19.35%) 802.1X
4 3 (4.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.26%) Data Centre
2 17 (27.42%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (8.06%) PKI
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) DevOps
2 18 (29.03%) ITIL
3 17 (27.42%) Test Planning
4 15 (24.19%) Change Management
5 13 (20.97%) Network Management
6 12 (19.35%) ITSM
7 7 (11.29%) Network Design
8 6 (9.68%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (6.45%) Agile
9 4 (6.45%) Computer Science
9 4 (6.45%) High Availability
9 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (6.45%) Network Architecture
9 4 (6.45%) Supplier Management
10 3 (4.84%) Kalman Filter
10 3 (4.84%) Mentoring
10 3 (4.84%) Scrum
11 2 (3.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (3.23%) Risk Assessment
11 2 (3.23%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.32%) Python
2 12 (19.35%) Perl
2 12 (19.35%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 33 (53.23%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (37.10%) CCNP
3 21 (33.87%) CCNA
4 17 (27.42%) Security Cleared
5 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
6 9 (14.52%) CCIE
6 9 (14.52%) CCIE Service Provider
7 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
7 5 (8.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (8.06%) Azure Certification
7 5 (8.06%) Degree
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) Firmware
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (27.42%) Ansible
2 9 (14.52%) Terraform
3 5 (8.06%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (3.23%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (85.48%) Cisco
2 30 (48.39%) Palo Alto
3 20 (32.26%) SolarWinds
4 17 (27.42%) Nokia
5 16 (25.81%) Juniper
6 13 (20.97%) Citrix
6 13 (20.97%) Fortinet
7 10 (16.13%) CheckPoint
8 9 (14.52%) F5
9 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
10 5 (8.06%) Arista
10 5 (8.06%) Google
10 5 (8.06%) Infoblox
11 4 (6.45%) Aruba
12 3 (4.84%) Meraki
13 2 (3.23%) SonicWALL
14 1 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
14 1 (1.61%) Extreme Networks