The first table below looks at the demand for IGRP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IGRP 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.

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
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP)
Rank 527 577 574
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -3
Contract jobs citing IGRP 3 1 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.002% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.044% 0.011% 0.177%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 11
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
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 £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

IGRP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

IGRP Jobs Demand Trend

IGRP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IGRP within the UK.

IGRP Daily Rate Trend

IGRP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IGRP within the UK.

IGRP Hourly Rate Trend

IGRP
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IGRP within the UK 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
England +50 3 - -
North West - 2 - -
Cheshire - 2 - -
Knutsford - 1 - -

IGRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing IGRP 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 IGRP.

1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) EIGRP
3 5 (71.43%) WAN
3 5 (71.43%) Network Architecture
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco
4 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
4 4 (57.14%) ISDN
4 4 (57.14%) CCNP
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (42.86%) Juniper
5 3 (42.86%) SAN
5 3 (42.86%) LAN
5 3 (42.86%) ATM
5 3 (42.86%) Wireless
5 3 (42.86%) Frame Relay
5 3 (42.86%) Cisco IPCC
5 3 (42.86%) IP Telephony
5 3 (42.86%) Network Design
5 3 (42.86%) Network Planning
5 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (42.86%) Network Management
6 2 (28.57%) Degree
6 2 (28.57%) GGSN
6 2 (28.57%) SGSN
6 2 (28.57%) IVR
6 2 (28.57%) MPLS
6 2 (28.57%) Migration
6 2 (28.57%) IBM
6 2 (28.57%) Firewall

IGRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing IGRP 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 IGRP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) EIGRP
3 5 (71.43%) WAN
4 4 (57.14%) ISDN
5 3 (42.86%) LAN
5 3 (42.86%) ATM
5 3 (42.86%) SAN
5 3 (42.86%) Wireless
5 3 (42.86%) Frame Relay
5 3 (42.86%) IP Telephony
6 2 (28.57%) GGSN
6 2 (28.57%) SGSN
6 2 (28.57%) Firewall
6 2 (28.57%) MPLS
6 2 (28.57%) RIP
6 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
6 2 (28.57%) GPRS
6 2 (28.57%) PBX
6 2 (28.57%) UMTS
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) IP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) IVR
2 1 (14.29%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Solaris
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Network Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Network Management
2 3 (42.86%) Network Design
2 3 (42.86%) Network Planning
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) eTOM
4 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCNP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
3 1 (14.29%) CCIP
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Juniper
3 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) Nortel
4 1 (14.29%) Ericsson
4 1 (14.29%) Huawei
4 1 (14.29%) AirMagnet