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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 427 453
Rank change year-on-year -156 +26 +108
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 35 78 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.078% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.82% 2.27% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 65
10th Percentile - £310 £413
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £463 £525 £531
90th Percentile £499 £591 £552
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £481
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.49% +6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £70.70 - £18.98
25th Percentile £71.01 £56.25 £19.69
Median hourly rate £71.77 £57.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% +170.59% +11.84%
75th Percentile £72.28 £58.75 £22.69
90th Percentile £72.44 - £23.33
UK median hourly rate £71.77 £57.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year +24.82% +170.59% +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 4,250 3,433 4,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.65% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,122 2,833
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 158 385
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.41 £25.04 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +1.74% +39.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £47.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.34% +10.47% +39.84%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -80 15 £400 -0.12% 5
North of England -93 9 £447 -10.60% 3
North West -61 8 £447 -10.60% 2
South West -31 3 £450 - 4
South East -66 2 £460 +8.24% 3
Yorkshire -55 1 £475 +35.71% 1
Midlands -62 1 £413 -21.43% 5
West Midlands -71 1 £413 -21.43% 5
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 3 (8.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.86%) GCP
3 1 (2.86%) OCI
3 1 (2.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (94.29%) OSPF
2 31 (88.57%) BGP
3 27 (77.14%) Firewall
4 20 (57.14%) WAN
5 18 (51.43%) Cisco ASA
5 18 (51.43%) LAN
5 18 (51.43%) Network Security
6 13 (37.14%) MPLS
7 12 (34.29%) Multicast
8 11 (31.43%) VLAN
9 9 (25.71%) VPN
10 7 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (20.00%) Wireless
11 6 (17.14%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (17.14%) SD-WAN
11 6 (17.14%) VXLAN
12 5 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (14.29%) HSRP
12 5 (14.29%) NetScaler
13 4 (11.43%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
1 9 (25.71%) Financial Institution
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Police
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Publishing
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Network Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Architect
4 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Designer
5 2 (5.71%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Network Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Network Designer
5 2 (5.71%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) BYOD
3 1 (2.86%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) ITIL
2 9 (25.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (14.29%) Change Management
3 5 (14.29%) High Availability
3 5 (14.29%) Migration
3 5 (14.29%) Zero Trust
4 4 (11.43%) Incident Management
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 4 (11.43%) Load Balancing
4 4 (11.43%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (11.43%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
5 3 (8.57%) Network Design
5 3 (8.57%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (8.57%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (8.57%) Patch Management
5 3 (8.57%) Validation
6 2 (5.71%) Analytics
6 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (5.71%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (14.29%) CCNP
5 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.71%) CCNA
7 1 (2.86%) CCIE
7 1 (2.86%) CWNA
7 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.71%) KVM
2 2 (5.71%) vSphere
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
3 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) ProxySG
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Nagios
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (91.43%) Cisco
2 24 (68.57%) Palo Alto
3 19 (54.29%) CheckPoint
4 18 (51.43%) F5
5 8 (22.86%) Fortinet
6 6 (17.14%) Meraki
7 5 (14.29%) Juniper
7 5 (14.29%) SolarWinds
8 4 (11.43%) Citrix
9 3 (8.57%) VMware
10 2 (5.71%) Aruba
11 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
11 1 (2.86%) Blue Coat
11 1 (2.86%) Dell
11 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
11 1 (2.86%) Ekahau
11 1 (2.86%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (2.86%) McAfee