The first table below looks at the demand for VRRP skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VRRP over the 3 months to 22 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 East region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Rank 419 431 388
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -43
Permanent jobs citing VRRP 16 13 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.072% 0.054% 0.164%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.304% 0.245% 0.876%
Number of salaries quoted 14 13 36
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,250 £32,000 £39,350
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £67,500 £48,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,750 £40,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5260 5301 4226
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 23.68% 21.97% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4220 4497 3526
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VRRP
England

VRRP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East VRRP Jobs Demand Trend

VRRP
Salary Trend

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

South East VRRP Salary Trend

VRRP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VRRP across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East VRRP Salary Histogram

VRRP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VRRP within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Surrey +17 9 £57,500 -14.81%
Berkshire +9 6 £40,000 +50.94%
Hampshire +5 1 £25,000 -31.03%
VRRP
England

VRRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VRRP.

1 42 (93.33%) BGP
2 29 (64.44%) OSPF
2 29 (64.44%) HSRP
3 26 (57.78%) IPsec
4 23 (51.11%) Firewall
4 23 (51.11%) Linux
4 23 (51.11%) DNS
5 21 (46.67%) LAN
6 20 (44.44%) VLAN
7 18 (40.00%) Cisco
7 18 (40.00%) ITIL
8 17 (37.78%) VPN
8 17 (37.78%) Degree
9 16 (35.56%) Cisco ASA
9 16 (35.56%) CiscoWorks
9 16 (35.56%) EIGRP
9 16 (35.56%) FWSM
9 16 (35.56%) Cisco Nexus
10 15 (33.33%) Perl
10 15 (33.33%) Python
10 15 (33.33%) VMware
11 14 (31.11%) VMware Infrastructure
12 13 (28.89%) Load Balancing
12 13 (28.89%) Network Design
13 12 (26.67%) MPLS
13 12 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (26.67%) Juniper
14 11 (24.44%) SAN
14 11 (24.44%) CCNP
14 11 (24.44%) WAN

VRRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VRRP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 9 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (4.444%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 9 (20.00%) IBM Connections
1 9 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
1 9 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (6.667%) Apache
3 2 (4.444%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 42 (93.33%) BGP
2 29 (64.44%) OSPF
2 29 (64.44%) HSRP
3 26 (57.78%) IPsec
4 23 (51.11%) Firewall
4 23 (51.11%) DNS
5 21 (46.67%) LAN
6 20 (44.44%) VLAN
7 17 (37.78%) VPN
8 16 (35.56%) Cisco ASA
8 16 (35.56%) EIGRP
8 16 (35.56%) FWSM
8 16 (35.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (26.67%) MPLS
10 11 (24.44%) SAN
10 11 (24.44%) WAN
11 10 (22.22%) LDAP
11 10 (22.22%) DHCP
12 9 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
12 9 (20.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Subversion
2 9 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (11.11%) Advertising
2 2 (4.444%) Finance
3 1 (2.222%) Marketing
3 1 (2.222%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) Systems Administrator
1 17 (37.78%) Administrator
2 16 (35.56%) Network Engineer
3 14 (31.11%) Network Support
4 11 (24.44%) Support Engineer
5 10 (22.22%) Network Support Engineer
6 9 (20.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 8 (17.78%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (15.56%) Network Administrator
9 6 (13.33%) Senior Network Support
10 4 (8.889%) Consultant
10 4 (8.889%) Cisco Support
10 4 (8.889%) Senior Cisco Support
10 4 (8.889%) Network Specialist
11 2 (4.444%) Pre Sales Consultant
11 2 (4.444%) Senior Support Engineer
11 2 (4.444%) UNIX Consultant
11 2 (4.444%) Senior Network Support Engineer
11 2 (4.444%) Linux Consultant
12 1 (2.222%) Lead Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (4.444%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Linux
2 11 (24.44%) UNIX
3 9 (20.00%) Windows
4 8 (17.78%) OpenBSD
5 3 (6.667%) CentOS
5 3 (6.667%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.667%) Debian
6 2 (4.444%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) ITIL
2 13 (28.89%) Load Balancing
2 13 (28.89%) Network Design
3 10 (22.22%) Network Management
4 8 (17.78%) Time Management
4 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 4 (8.889%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (8.889%) Investment Management
7 3 (6.667%) Capacity Management
8 2 (4.444%) Configuration Management
9 1 (2.222%) Network Load Balancing
9 1 (2.222%) Business Continuity
9 1 (2.222%) Service Management
9 1 (2.222%) BCP
9 1 (2.222%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Perl
1 15 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (20.00%) Ruby
3 8 (17.78%) PHP
4 6 (13.33%) Bash shell
5 2 (4.444%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Degree
2 12 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (24.44%) CCNP
4 9 (20.00%) CCIE
4 9 (20.00%) RHCE
5 3 (6.667%) CCNA
6 2 (4.444%) CCSA
6 2 (4.444%) CCSE
7 1 (2.222%) SAP Certification
7 1 (2.222%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.222%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.222%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.56%) ProxySG
3 2 (4.444%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.444%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (35.56%) CiscoWorks
2 9 (20.00%) Puppet
2 9 (20.00%) Cacti
2 9 (20.00%) WSUS
2 9 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 9 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (40.00%) Cisco
2 15 (33.33%) VMware
3 12 (26.67%) Juniper
4 10 (22.22%) CheckPoint
4 10 (22.22%) Blue Coat
5 9 (20.00%) Lotus
5 9 (20.00%) IBM
6 8 (17.78%) F5
7 7 (15.56%) Infoblox
7 7 (15.56%) Imperva
7 7 (15.56%) McAfee
8 5 (11.11%) BT
9 2 (4.444%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.222%) Huawei
10 1 (2.222%) HP
10 1 (2.222%) Dell
10 1 (2.222%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.222%) SAP
10 1 (2.222%) Foundry
Staines, Middlesex
Minimum of CCNP certification - Ideally CCIE certified or currently studying towards CCIE... Knowledge & experience around routing and switching technologies such as BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, STP, HSRP & VRRP...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus & Oncall
Posted: 17 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Minimum of CCNP certification - Ideally CCIE certified or currently studying towards CCIE... Knowledge & experience around routing and switching technologies such as BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, STP, HSRP & VRRP...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus & Oncall
Posted: 21 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
You'll need Systems Administration experience of infrastructure services, based on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS) and OpenBSD. ISP networking knowledge of BGP, OSPF, DWDM, VRRP,HSRP, IPsec, all...
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Installation, configuration and troubleshooting Layer 2, 3 and 4 protocols (STP, LLDP-MED, ARP, VRRP, OSPF, SNMP, Multicast, IPsec, TCP, UDP, etc..) *IP topology design and documentation *Migration...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013