Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for HSRP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 855 934 1206
Rank change year-on-year +79 +272 -352
Permanent jobs citing HSRP 41 36 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.034% 0.017%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 29 32 20
10th Percentile £44,750 £47,263 £41,025
25th Percentile £46,500 £53,313 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HSRP.

Salary trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +118 38 £53,000 -13.65% 15
UK excluding London +27 31 £52,500 +0.48% 12
South East +32 13 £53,000 -2.75% 3
Work from Home +89 10 £75,000 +3.45% 5
London +125 9 £75,000 - 5
West Midlands +34 9 - - 1
Midlands +16 9 - - 2
North of England +53 4 £47,000 +4.44% 1
North West +15 4 £47,000 +88.00% 1
Scotland - 3 £75,000 - 1
South West -1 2 £30,000 -36.84% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.88%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) Azure
2 3 (7.32%) AWS
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.88%) IaaS
3 2 (4.88%) Mimecast
3 2 (4.88%) OpenDNS
3 2 (4.88%) PaaS
3 2 (4.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (87.80%) OSPF
2 34 (82.93%) BGP
3 32 (78.05%) VLAN
4 31 (75.61%) Firewall
5 23 (56.10%) Spanning Tree
6 22 (53.66%) VRRP
7 20 (48.78%) VPN
8 19 (46.34%) IPsec
9 15 (36.59%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (36.59%) Cisco Firepower
9 15 (36.59%) MPLS
10 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
10 12 (29.27%) VoIP
11 11 (26.83%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (26.83%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (24.39%) EIGRP
12 10 (24.39%) LAN
12 10 (24.39%) WAN
12 10 (24.39%) Wireless
13 9 (21.95%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Retail
3 6 (14.63%) Banking
4 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Finance
6 2 (4.88%) Law
6 2 (4.88%) Legal
6 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (58.54%) Network Engineer
2 16 (39.02%) Senior
3 13 (31.71%) 3rd Line Support
4 11 (26.83%) Network Support
5 10 (24.39%) Senior Network Engineer
6 9 (21.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (17.07%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 7 (17.07%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (17.07%) Analyst
7 7 (17.07%) Network Analyst
7 7 (17.07%) Support Engineer
8 6 (14.63%) Network Operations Analyst
8 6 (14.63%) Operations Analyst
8 6 (14.63%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (14.63%) Senior Network Analyst
8 6 (14.63%) Senior Operations Analyst
9 5 (12.20%) Network Support Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.88%) LAMP
2 2 (4.88%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Data Centre
1 7 (17.07%) FMCG
2 2 (4.88%) PKI
3 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Windows
2 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Project Delivery
2 7 (17.07%) Business Analysis
2 7 (17.07%) Change Management
2 7 (17.07%) Demand Management
2 7 (17.07%) High Availability
2 7 (17.07%) Network Architecture
2 7 (17.07%) Network Virtualisation
2 7 (17.07%) Release Management
3 5 (12.20%) Asset Management
3 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
4 3 (7.32%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.32%) Web Filtering
5 2 (4.88%) DevSecOps
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (4.88%) IT Strategy
5 2 (4.88%) Server Management
5 2 (4.88%) Storage Management
5 2 (4.88%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (4.88%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 29 (70.73%) CCNP
1 29 (70.73%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
3 11 (26.83%) CCIE
3 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
4 8 (19.51%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 7 (17.07%) CCDP
6 4 (9.76%) CCNA
7 3 (7.32%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Firmware
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 2 (4.88%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.88%) pfSense
2 2 (4.88%) Terminal Services
2 2 (4.88%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.88%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.44%) Puppet
3 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (80.49%) Cisco
2 15 (36.59%) Juniper
3 10 (24.39%) F5
4 7 (17.07%) CheckPoint
4 7 (17.07%) Ekahau
5 5 (12.20%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.32%) Aruba
7 2 (4.88%) Acronis
7 2 (4.88%) Citrix
7 2 (4.88%) HP
7 2 (4.88%) Meraki
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.88%) SonicWALL
7 2 (4.88%) Sophos
7 2 (4.88%) Veeam
7 2 (4.88%) Veritas
8 1 (2.44%) Arista
8 1 (2.44%) Mitel
8 1 (2.44%) VMware