EIGRP Contract Job Trends in England

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring EIGRP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 441 441
Rank change year-on-year -128 0 +103
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 44 67 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.097% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.03% 1.96% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 66
10th Percentile - £295 £403
25th Percentile £400 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £479 £531 £525
90th Percentile £511 £595 £563
UK median daily rate £447 £453 £475
% change year-on-year -1.22% -4.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £51.21 - -
25th Percentile £55.66 £56.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £64.63 £57.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% +202.63% -
75th Percentile £72.06 £58.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £73.08 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.63 £57.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +12.39% +202.63% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

EIGRP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,291 3,415 4,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.41% 12.34% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,598 2,119 2,572
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £403 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 167 282
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.75 £44.00 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.93% -19.91% +3.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.88 £49.50
% change year-on-year -44.53% -5.30% -5.71%

EIGRP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EIGRP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

EIGRP job vacancy trend in England

EIGRP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EIGRP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EIGRP

EIGRP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EIGRP in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for EIGRP in England

EIGRP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EIGRP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EIGRP

EIGRP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing EIGRP in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for EIGRP in England

EIGRP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EIGRP within the England region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -84 15 £400 -3.03% 15
North of England -80 14 £450 -10.00% 7
North West -52 13 £449 -16.56% 5
South East -65 5 £460 +8.24% 3
West Midlands -51 3 £413 -21.43% 3
Midlands -56 3 £413 -21.43% 3
South West -41 2 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -44 1 £475 +35.71% 2
EIGRP
UK

EIGRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.09%) SAS
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.36%) AWS
2 4 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.27%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) IBM Watson
4 1 (2.27%) OCI
4 1 (2.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 42 (95.45%) OSPF
2 41 (93.18%) BGP
3 32 (72.73%) Firewall
4 21 (47.73%) Cisco ASA
4 21 (47.73%) WAN
5 19 (43.18%) LAN
6 17 (38.64%) Network Security
7 15 (34.09%) VLAN
8 13 (29.55%) HSRP
8 13 (29.55%) MPLS
9 12 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
9 12 (27.27%) VPN
10 11 (25.00%) Multicast
10 11 (25.00%) SD-WAN
11 8 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (18.18%) VXLAN
11 8 (18.18%) Wireless
12 7 (15.91%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (15.91%) IPsec
12 7 (15.91%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
1 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 7 (15.91%) Finance
1 7 (15.91%) Financial Institution
2 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.27%) Legal
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.27%) Police
4 1 (2.27%) Publishing
4 1 (2.27%) Retail
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Designer
4 3 (6.82%) Network Designer
5 2 (4.55%) Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Network Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Security Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) IP Network Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.82%) CMDB
2 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.82%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.27%) BYOD
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Life Science
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) ITIL
2 9 (20.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (20.45%) High Availability
3 8 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 7 (15.91%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (15.91%) Zero Trust
5 6 (13.64%) Change Management
5 6 (13.64%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (11.36%) Migration
7 4 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 4 (9.09%) Load Balancing
7 4 (9.09%) Network Management
7 4 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (9.09%) Patch Management
7 4 (9.09%) Performance Analysis
8 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (6.82%) Observability
8 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (6.82%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (43.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (15.91%) CCNP
5 5 (11.36%) CCNA
6 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.55%) CCIE
8 1 (2.27%) CWNA
8 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.55%) vSphere
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Firmware
3 1 (2.27%) KVM
3 1 (2.27%) ProxySG
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Ansible
2 4 (9.09%) Nagios
3 2 (4.55%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.55%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 43 (97.73%) Cisco
2 30 (68.18%) Palo Alto
3 22 (50.00%) CheckPoint
4 16 (36.36%) F5
5 10 (22.73%) SolarWinds
6 9 (20.45%) Fortinet
6 9 (20.45%) Meraki
7 6 (13.64%) Juniper
7 6 (13.64%) VMware
8 4 (9.09%) Citrix
8 4 (9.09%) SevOne
9 3 (6.82%) NetScout
10 2 (4.55%) Aruba
10 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
11 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
11 1 (2.27%) Arista
11 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
11 1 (2.27%) Ekahau
11 1 (2.27%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (2.27%) Splunk