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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 410 446
Rank change year-on-year -149 +36 +139
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 34 79 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.082% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.87% 2.51% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 68
10th Percentile £390 £303 £337
25th Percentile £400 £372 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £483 £460
Median % change year-on-year -15.80% +4.89% +2.22%
75th Percentile £476 £550 £519
90th Percentile £522 £616 £550
UK median daily rate £413 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -13.16% +1.06% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £70.70 - £18.98
25th Percentile £71.01 £18.50 £19.69
Median hourly rate £71.77 £19.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +277.74% -10.59% +11.84%
75th Percentile £72.28 £19.50 £22.69
90th Percentile £72.44 - £23.33
UK median hourly rate £71.77 £19.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +277.74% -10.59% +11.84%

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 3,895 3,147 4,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 13.00% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 1,959 2,889
10th Percentile £263 £220 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £497 £485 £490
% change year-on-year +2.51% -1.02% -5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 117 388
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% -18.75% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.15 £70.20
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +116.22%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -68 17 £400 - 2
South East -54 5 £460 +8.24% 2
North West -65 5 £300 -40.00%
North of England -100 5 £300 -39.39%
South West -32 3 £450 -
West Midlands -61 1 £413 +23.13% 6
Midlands -61 1 £413 +23.13% 7
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) AWS
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (2.94%) Azure
2 1 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (2.94%) OCI
2 1 (2.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (97.06%) OSPF
2 31 (91.18%) BGP
3 29 (85.29%) WAN
4 27 (79.41%) Firewall
5 18 (52.94%) LAN
5 18 (52.94%) MPLS
6 16 (47.06%) Network Security
7 14 (41.18%) Cisco ASA
7 14 (41.18%) VLAN
8 12 (35.29%) VPN
9 11 (32.35%) Multicast
10 10 (29.41%) SD-WAN
11 8 (23.53%) VXLAN
11 8 (23.53%) Wireless
12 7 (20.59%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (20.59%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (17.65%) IPsec
14 5 (14.71%) 802.11
15 4 (11.76%) SSL
16 3 (8.82%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Financial Institution
3 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Retail
3 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Police
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Billing
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Military
5 1 (2.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Senior
2 11 (32.35%) Network Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Network Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Network Security Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Security Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco Network Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) IP Network Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Network Security Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) 802.1X
2 3 (8.82%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.71%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) BYOD
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) iSeries
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.94%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (20.59%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (17.65%) Load Balancing
4 5 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (14.71%) Zero Trust
5 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
5 4 (11.76%) Migration
5 4 (11.76%) Network Design
5 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.82%) Agile
6 3 (8.82%) Design Patterns
6 3 (8.82%) Escalation Management
6 3 (8.82%) ITIL
7 2 (5.88%) Deep Packet Inspection
7 2 (5.88%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (5.88%) Integration Patterns
7 2 (5.88%) Observability
7 2 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (5.88%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.59%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (17.65%) CCNP
5 5 (14.71%) DV Cleared
6 4 (11.76%) CCIE
7 2 (5.88%) Degree
8 1 (2.94%) CCNA
8 1 (2.94%) CWNA
8 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) KVM
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) Firmware
3 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.94%) ProxySG
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Ansible
1 4 (11.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.94%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (2.94%) Grafana
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (88.24%) Cisco
2 17 (50.00%) F5
3 16 (47.06%) Palo Alto
4 15 (44.12%) CheckPoint
5 7 (20.59%) Fortinet
6 5 (14.71%) Meraki
7 4 (11.76%) Aruba
8 3 (8.82%) Juniper
8 3 (8.82%) VMware
9 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
9 2 (5.88%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
10 1 (2.94%) Blue Coat
10 1 (2.94%) Dell
10 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
10 1 (2.94%) Ekahau
10 1 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (2.94%) McAfee