The first table below looks at the demand for VRRP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 522 554 570
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +16
Contract jobs citing VRRP 8 24 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.041% 0.029%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.118% 0.264% 0.228%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 5
Average daily rate £300 £390 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £336 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £465 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £428 £294
% change year-on-year
-12.33% +45.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £20.63 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.63 - £20.00
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%

VRRP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

VRRP Daily Rate Trend

VRRP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VRRP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

VRRP Hourly Rate Trend

VRRP
Top 14 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 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 +34 7 £300 -16.08%
Yorkshire - 3 £450 -
London +16 2 £263 -26.57%
South East +16 2 £300 -
East of England - 2 - -
Peterborough - 2 - -
West Yorkshire - 2 - -
Halifax - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire - 2 - -
Berkshire +10 1 £300 -
Reading +8 1 £300 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Doncaster - 1 £450 -

VRRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (90.32%) OSPF
2 24 (77.42%) BGP
2 24 (77.42%) HSRP
3 20 (64.52%) VPN
4 18 (58.06%) Cisco
5 16 (51.61%) Telecoms
6 15 (48.39%) MPLS
6 15 (48.39%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (41.94%) Firewall
7 13 (41.94%) Network Design
8 12 (38.71%) CCNP
8 12 (38.71%) CCNA
8 12 (38.71%) Ethernet
8 12 (38.71%) Radio Access Network
9 11 (35.48%) RSVP
9 11 (35.48%) VLAN
9 11 (35.48%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (32.26%) Network Management
10 10 (32.26%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (32.26%) IPsec
10 10 (32.26%) CheckPoint
10 10 (32.26%) SNMP
10 10 (32.26%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (29.03%) Finance
12 8 (25.81%) DHCP
12 8 (25.81%) CSS
13 7 (22.58%) LAN
13 7 (22.58%) MS Office
13 7 (22.58%) WAN
13 7 (22.58%) RIP

VRRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (25.81%) CSS
2 1 (3.226%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) Apache
1 1 (3.226%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) MS Office
2 2 (6.452%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 28 (90.32%) OSPF
2 24 (77.42%) BGP
2 24 (77.42%) HSRP
3 20 (64.52%) VPN
4 15 (48.39%) MPLS
5 13 (41.94%) Firewall
6 12 (38.71%) Ethernet
6 12 (38.71%) Radio Access Network
7 11 (35.48%) RSVP
7 11 (35.48%) VLAN
8 10 (32.26%) IPsec
8 10 (32.26%) SNMP
8 10 (32.26%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (32.26%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (25.81%) DHCP
10 7 (22.58%) WAN
10 7 (22.58%) LAN
10 7 (22.58%) RIP
11 6 (19.35%) Internet
11 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.226%) MySQL
General
1 16 (51.61%) Telecoms
2 9 (29.03%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
3 5 (16.13%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.452%) Local Government
5 1 (3.226%) Back Office
5 1 (3.226%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (67.74%) Network Engineer
2 11 (35.48%) Design Engineer
2 11 (35.48%) Network Design Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Network Support
4 3 (9.677%) Network Support Engineer
4 3 (9.677%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Support Specialist
5 2 (6.452%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.452%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Cisco Support
5 2 (6.452%) Data Network Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 1 (3.226%) Market Data Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Transmission Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.226%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) UNIX Consultant
6 1 (3.226%) Senior UNIX Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) SecurID
2 3 (9.677%) Device Driver
3 2 (6.452%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.226%) Open Source
4 1 (3.226%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) VMS
2 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (6.452%) UNIX
2 2 (6.452%) Windows
2 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.226%) CentOS
3 1 (3.226%) Linux
3 1 (3.226%) FreeBSD
3 1 (3.226%) Debian
3 1 (3.226%) OpenBSD
3 1 (3.226%) Fedora
3 1 (3.226%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Network Design
2 11 (35.48%) Capacity Planning
3 10 (32.26%) Network Management
4 5 (16.13%) Project Planning
4 5 (16.13%) Change Management
5 4 (12.90%) E-Commerce
6 3 (9.677%) Load Balancing
7 2 (6.452%) Incident Management
8 1 (3.226%) Performance Management
8 1 (3.226%) Information Assurance
8 1 (3.226%) Configuration Management
8 1 (3.226%) Project Management
8 1 (3.226%) Service Management
8 1 (3.226%) Security Management
8 1 (3.226%) Risk Management
8 1 (3.226%) ITIL
8 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.226%) Java
1 1 (3.226%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (38.71%) CCNA
2 12 (38.71%) CCNP
3 4 (12.90%) CCIE
4 2 (6.452%) Degree
5 1 (3.226%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.226%) Check Point Certification
5 1 (3.226%) CCIP
5 1 (3.226%) HNC
5 1 (3.226%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.452%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.226%) ProxySG
2 1 (3.226%) Squid
2 1 (3.226%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.226%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Cisco
2 10 (32.26%) CheckPoint
3 7 (22.58%) Nokia
3 7 (22.58%) Blue Coat
4 4 (12.90%) NetScout
4 4 (12.90%) TippingPoint
5 2 (6.452%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.452%) Mitel
5 2 (6.452%) Remedy
5 2 (6.452%) BT
5 2 (6.452%) OPNET
6 1 (3.226%) VMware
6 1 (3.226%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.226%) Avaya
6 1 (3.226%) Juniper
6 1 (3.226%) Huawei