Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VRRP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VRRP 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 860 949 1217
Rank change year-on-year +89 +268 -355
Permanent jobs citing VRRP 36 21 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.020% 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% 0.13% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 27 21 14
10th Percentile £45,950 £48,750 £30,875
25th Percentile £58,641 £61,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +43.59% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £130,000 £62,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £50,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year +23.00% +14.29% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

VRRP 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% - -

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VRRP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VRRP 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 +128 33 £75,000 +3.45% 8
London +136 20 £85,000 +13.33% 3
Work from Home +98 19 £85,000 +13.33% 1
UK excluding London +27 15 £61,500 +23.00% 6
West Midlands - 9 - - 2
Midlands - 9 - - 2
North of England +53 3 £46,500 -2.11% 3
North West +14 3 £46,500 -2.11% 3
Scotland - 3 £75,000 - 1

VRRP
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 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
1 2 (5.56%) AWS
1 2 (5.56%) Azure
1 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
1 2 (5.56%) Mimecast
1 2 (5.56%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (80.56%) BGP
2 26 (72.22%) VLAN
3 24 (66.67%) Firewall
3 24 (66.67%) OSPF
4 22 (61.11%) HSRP
5 21 (58.33%) MPLS
6 17 (47.22%) LAN
7 16 (44.44%) WAN
8 15 (41.67%) VoIP
9 14 (38.89%) TCP/IP
9 14 (38.89%) Wireless
10 12 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
11 11 (30.56%) EIGRP
12 8 (22.22%) DHCP
12 8 (22.22%) IPsec
12 8 (22.22%) SD-WAN
12 8 (22.22%) SNMP
13 7 (19.44%) DNS
13 7 (19.44%) IGRP
13 7 (19.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Retail
3 6 (16.67%) Banking
3 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Law
5 2 (5.56%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Senior
2 13 (36.11%) Network Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Analyst
4 7 (19.44%) Consultant
4 7 (19.44%) Network Analyst
4 7 (19.44%) Senior Consultant
4 7 (19.44%) Solutions Consultant
5 6 (16.67%) Network Operations Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Senior Network Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Senior Operations Analyst
6 5 (13.89%) Support Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Technical Support
7 3 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) CSS
2 2 (5.56%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.56%) LAMP
2 2 (5.56%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Data Centre
1 7 (19.44%) FMCG
2 3 (8.33%) Smart City
3 2 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (19.44%) Business Analysis
1 7 (19.44%) Change Management
1 7 (19.44%) Demand Management
1 7 (19.44%) High Availability
1 7 (19.44%) Network Architecture
1 7 (19.44%) Network Virtualisation
1 7 (19.44%) Presales
1 7 (19.44%) Project Delivery
1 7 (19.44%) Release Management
2 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 6 (16.67%) Zero Trust
3 5 (13.89%) Asset Management
4 3 (8.33%) Coaching
4 3 (8.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (8.33%) Customer Experience
4 3 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 3 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 18 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (38.89%) CCNP
3 12 (33.33%) CCIE
4 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 7 (19.44%) CCDP
5 7 (19.44%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 5 (13.89%) CCNA
6 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
7 3 (8.33%) Degree
7 3 (8.33%) MCT
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Firmware
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.56%) pfSense
2 2 (5.56%) Terminal Services
2 2 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.78%) Puppet
2 1 (2.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Cisco
2 7 (19.44%) Ekahau
3 6 (16.67%) Meraki
4 5 (13.89%) CheckPoint
5 4 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.56%) Acronis
6 2 (5.56%) Aruba
6 2 (5.56%) Citrix
6 2 (5.56%) HP
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.56%) SonicWALL
6 2 (5.56%) Sophos
6 2 (5.56%) Veeam
6 2 (5.56%) Veritas
7 1 (2.78%) Arista
7 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.78%) VMware