The first table below looks at the demand for HSRP skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HSRP over the 3 months to 20 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
Rank 713 801 763
Rank change year-on-year
+88 -38
Permanent jobs citing HSRP 131 69 85
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.130% 0.061% 0.074%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.666% 0.344% 0.466%
Number of salaries quoted 118 62 83
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £28,200 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,500 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19665 20058 18233
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.58% 17.64% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 16023 16887 15234
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
HSRP
UK

HSRP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England HSRP Jobs Demand Trend

HSRP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing HSRP across the England region.

England HSRP Salary Trend

HSRP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing HSRP across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England HSRP Salary Histogram

HSRP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HSRP within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East +42 52 £40,000 -11.11%
London +47 43 £42,500 -15.00%
East of England +26 16 £39,750 -20.50%
North East - 15 £40,000 -
Yorkshire +2 4 - -
South West -5 2 £41,625 +23.33%
North West - 1 £37,500 -
HSRP
UK

HSRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing HSRP 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 IT job ads sampled that cited HSRP.

1 185 (93.43%) Cisco
2 142 (71.72%) OSPF
3 133 (67.17%) BGP
4 124 (62.63%) MPLS
5 118 (59.60%) Cisco Certification
6 111 (56.06%) VPN
7 104 (52.53%) VLAN
8 96 (48.48%) LAN
8 96 (48.48%) Firewall
9 93 (46.97%) CCNP
10 88 (44.44%) WAN
11 86 (43.43%) EIGRP
12 80 (40.40%) Juniper
13 78 (39.39%) IPsec
14 74 (37.37%) Internet
15 73 (36.87%) Cisco ASA
16 70 (35.35%) Ethernet
17 63 (31.82%) CCNA
17 63 (31.82%) VRRP
18 58 (29.29%) CheckPoint
18 58 (29.29%) TCP/IP
19 57 (28.79%) Wireless
20 53 (26.77%) Telecoms
21 50 (25.25%) IPv6
22 47 (23.74%) SSL
22 47 (23.74%) Linux
23 46 (23.23%) DHCP
23 46 (23.23%) VPLS
24 45 (22.73%) VoIP
25 44 (22.22%) CiscoWorks

HSRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing HSRP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited HSRP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (12.63%) CSS
2 3 (1.515%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 8 (4.040%) Apache
2 6 (3.030%) Lync
3 5 (2.525%) MS Exchange
4 4 (2.020%) IIS
5 2 (1.010%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (1.010%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (1.010%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.505%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (7.576%) MS Visio
2 8 (4.040%) MS Excel
3 7 (3.535%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 142 (71.72%) OSPF
2 133 (67.17%) BGP
3 124 (62.63%) MPLS
4 111 (56.06%) VPN
5 104 (52.53%) VLAN
6 96 (48.48%) Firewall
6 96 (48.48%) LAN
7 88 (44.44%) WAN
8 86 (43.43%) EIGRP
9 78 (39.39%) IPsec
10 74 (37.37%) Internet
11 73 (36.87%) Cisco ASA
12 70 (35.35%) Ethernet
13 63 (31.82%) VRRP
14 58 (29.29%) TCP/IP
15 57 (28.79%) Wireless
16 50 (25.25%) IPv6
17 47 (23.74%) SSL
18 46 (23.23%) DHCP
18 46 (23.23%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.030%) MySQL
2 3 (1.515%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.010%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.505%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.505%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.505%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 24 (12.12%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (0.505%) Subversion
General
1 53 (26.77%) Telecoms
2 39 (19.70%) Finance
3 12 (6.061%) Law
4 8 (4.040%) Banking
5 6 (3.030%) Advertising
6 4 (2.020%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.515%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.505%) Marketing
8 1 (0.505%) Retail
8 1 (0.505%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.505%) Legal
Job Titles
1 98 (49.49%) Network Engineer
2 26 (13.13%) Network Support
3 23 (11.62%) Administrator
4 22 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 21 (10.61%) Network Support Engineer
5 21 (10.61%) Network Administrator
6 18 (9.091%) Network Analyst
6 18 (9.091%) Analyst
7 16 (8.081%) Consultant
8 14 (7.071%) Senior Network Administrator
8 14 (7.071%) IP Engineer
9 13 (6.566%) Senior Network Engineer
10 12 (6.061%) Pre Sales Consultant
11 10 (5.051%) Security Engineer
11 10 (5.051%) Cisco Engineer
11 10 (5.051%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (5.051%) Network Security Engineer
11 10 (5.051%) Cisco Support
12 9 (4.545%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 8 (4.040%) Provisioning Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.051%) SaaS
1 10 (5.051%) Mobile App
2 8 (4.040%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (2.020%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.020%) Clustering
4 3 (1.515%) Blackberry
4 3 (1.515%) Open Source
5 2 (1.010%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.010%) iPhone
5 2 (1.010%) iPad
5 2 (1.010%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.010%) SecurID
5 2 (1.010%) PKI
6 1 (0.505%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.505%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.505%) CLARiiON
6 1 (0.505%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (23.74%) Linux
2 16 (8.081%) Windows
3 12 (6.061%) UNIX
4 10 (5.051%) Solaris
5 9 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (3.030%) OpenBSD
7 5 (2.525%) CentOS
8 4 (2.020%) Debian
8 4 (2.020%) Windows 2000
9 2 (1.010%) MVS
9 2 (1.010%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.505%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.505%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.505%) VMS
10 1 (0.505%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (16.16%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (11.11%) Network Management
3 18 (9.091%) Load Balancing
4 16 (8.081%) ITIL
5 15 (7.576%) Network Design
6 11 (5.556%) Service Delivery
7 10 (5.051%) Business Development
8 9 (4.545%) Network Architecture
9 7 (3.535%) Time Management
9 7 (3.535%) Project Management
9 7 (3.535%) Validation
10 6 (3.030%) Information Security
10 6 (3.030%) PRINCE2
10 6 (3.030%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (2.525%) E-Commerce
11 5 (2.525%) Change Management
12 4 (2.020%) Identity Management
12 4 (2.020%) Change Control
12 4 (2.020%) Capacity Management
12 4 (2.020%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.545%) Perl
2 6 (3.030%) PHP
2 6 (3.030%) SQL
2 6 (3.030%) Python
2 6 (3.030%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 118 (59.60%) Cisco Certification
2 93 (46.97%) CCNP
3 63 (31.82%) CCNA
4 22 (11.11%) CCIE
5 17 (8.586%) Degree
6 15 (7.576%) CISSP
7 13 (6.566%) CCDP
8 11 (5.556%) CCIP
9 10 (5.051%) CCSA
10 9 (4.545%) CCSE
11 8 (4.040%) CCVP
11 8 (4.040%) Avaya Certification
11 8 (4.040%) CCSP
12 7 (3.535%) JNCIA
12 7 (3.535%) JNCIS
13 5 (2.525%) JNCIP
13 5 (2.525%) JNCIE
14 4 (2.020%) Check Point Certification
15 3 (1.515%) GIAC
16 2 (1.010%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.576%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.525%) SLA
2 5 (2.525%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.515%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.010%) QA
System Software
1 13 (6.566%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.061%) ProxySG
3 5 (2.525%) XenServer
4 3 (1.515%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.515%) FreeRADIUS
5 2 (1.010%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.010%) Snort
5 2 (1.010%) Squid
6 1 (0.505%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (22.22%) CiscoWorks
2 28 (14.14%) Nagios
3 11 (5.556%) SolarWinds Orion
3 11 (5.556%) Cisco CUCM
4 8 (4.040%) Cacti
4 8 (4.040%) WhatsUp Gold
4 8 (4.040%) OpenView
5 5 (2.525%) Cisco UCCE
6 4 (2.020%) Cisco IPCC
7 3 (1.515%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.010%) Cisco UCCX
8 2 (1.010%) SCCM
8 2 (1.010%) MOM
9 1 (0.505%) EMC Navisphere
9 1 (0.505%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 185 (93.43%) Cisco
2 80 (40.40%) Juniper
3 58 (29.29%) CheckPoint
4 42 (21.21%) F5
5 33 (16.67%) HP
6 23 (11.62%) SolarWinds
7 22 (11.11%) McAfee
8 20 (10.10%) Mitel
8 20 (10.10%) Avaya
9 19 (9.596%) Huawei
10 15 (7.576%) VMware
10 15 (7.576%) Blue Coat
11 14 (7.071%) Oracle
12 13 (6.566%) Riverbed
13 12 (6.061%) Infoblox
13 12 (6.061%) Imperva
13 12 (6.061%) Foundry
14 11 (5.556%) Microsoft
15 10 (5.051%) Citrix
16 8 (4.040%) BT
City, London
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Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum + excellent benefits
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