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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 412 492
Rank change year-on-year -101 +80 +148
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 28 82 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.088% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.83% 2.34% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 42 31
10th Percentile £442 £351 £335
25th Percentile £450 £407 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £593 £523
90th Percentile £628 £625 £738
UK median daily rate £450 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year - -23.23% +3.13%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £27.75
90th Percentile - - £32.70
UK median hourly rate - £28.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +14.00% +4.17%

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 3,366 3,500 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.64% 12.80% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,178 2,045 3,127
10th Percentile £205 £220 £207
25th Percentile £358 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 103 312
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +120.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.25 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +125.96%

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 7 January 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
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 7 January 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 -30 15 £475 +26.67% 6
West Midlands -36 5 £525 +5.00% 6
Midlands -40 5 £525 +5.00% 8
North of England -72 5 £440 -20.00%
North West -49 4 £438 -20.45%
South East -38 2 - - 4
South West - 1 £475 -
Yorkshire - 1 £440 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
4 4 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 28 (100.00%) BGP
1 28 (100.00%) OSPF
2 20 (71.43%) Firewall
3 19 (67.86%) WAN
4 17 (60.71%) VPN
5 12 (42.86%) IPsec
5 12 (42.86%) MPLS
6 11 (39.29%) DNS
6 11 (39.29%) SD-WAN
7 10 (35.71%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (35.71%) VLAN
8 9 (32.14%) Wireless
9 8 (28.57%) LAN
9 8 (28.57%) VXLAN
10 6 (21.43%) DHCP
11 5 (17.86%) HTTPS
11 5 (17.86%) Network Security
12 4 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
12 4 (14.29%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Retail
4 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Military
5 1 (3.57%) Police
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Network Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Architect
2 9 (32.14%) Network Architect
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco Network Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Lead
7 1 (3.57%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Network Security Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Unified Communications Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) VML
2 3 (10.71%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (17.86%) PKI
3 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) SCADA
4 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Load Balancing
2 7 (25.00%) Network Design
3 6 (21.43%) Kalman Filter
3 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 6 (21.43%) Zero Trust
4 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
4 5 (17.86%) Network Architecture
4 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (14.29%) ITIL
5 4 (14.29%) Network Management
5 4 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (14.29%) Security Architecture
6 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.71%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
3 5 (17.86%) C++
3 5 (17.86%) Perl
4 1 (3.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (53.57%) CCNP
3 8 (28.57%) CCIE
3 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) JNCIA
4 5 (17.86%) JNCIS
4 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
5 4 (14.29%) CISSP
5 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
6 3 (10.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
6 3 (10.71%) CCIE Security
6 3 (10.71%) CCSP
6 3 (10.71%) Degree
6 3 (10.71%) JNCIE
7 2 (7.14%) JNCIP
8 1 (3.57%) CCDE
8 1 (3.57%) CCNA
8 1 (3.57%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.29%) GDPR
2 4 (14.29%) NIST
2 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 3 (10.71%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Firmware
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Ansible
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (96.43%) Cisco
2 13 (46.43%) Juniper
3 10 (35.71%) F5
3 10 (35.71%) Fortinet
4 8 (28.57%) Meraki
5 7 (25.00%) CheckPoint
5 7 (25.00%) Palo Alto
6 5 (17.86%) Aruba
6 5 (17.86%) SolarWinds
7 4 (14.29%) VMware
8 3 (10.71%) Zscaler
9 2 (7.14%) Arista
9 2 (7.14%) Forcepoint
10 1 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (3.57%) McAfee
10 1 (3.57%) NVIDIA
10 1 (3.57%) Oracle
10 1 (3.57%) Remedy
10 1 (3.57%) Ruckus Wireless