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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 451 440
Rank change year-on-year -121 -11 +104
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 50 57 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.15% 1.69% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 61
10th Percentile £400 £280 £400
25th Percentile £409 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £499 £538 £525
90th Percentile £600 £599 £563
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +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% -24.00%
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% -35.59%

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 4,339 3,378 4,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.17% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 2,100 2,422
10th Percentile £263 £242 £250
25th Percentile £400 £364 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £681 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 169 259
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.11 £42.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% -24.77% -
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.68 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.62%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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
North of England -63 19 £449 -5.58% 1
North West -52 18 £447 -22.26%
London -94 12 £413 -2.94% 12
South East -61 7 £535 - 4
West Midlands -41 4 £413 -21.43% 4
Midlands -50 4 £413 -21.43% 4
South West -39 2 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -43 1 £475 +137.50% 1
East of England - 1 £475 - 3
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 8 (16.00%) SAS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.00%) Azure
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.00%) GCP
4 1 (2.00%) IBM Watson
4 1 (2.00%) OCI
4 1 (2.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 48 (96.00%) OSPF
2 47 (94.00%) BGP
3 36 (72.00%) Firewall
4 23 (46.00%) Cisco ASA
5 20 (40.00%) WAN
6 18 (36.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 18 (36.00%) Network Security
6 18 (36.00%) VLAN
7 17 (34.00%) LAN
8 15 (30.00%) HSRP
9 14 (28.00%) VPN
10 13 (26.00%) SD-WAN
11 10 (20.00%) MPLS
11 10 (20.00%) Wireless
12 9 (18.00%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (18.00%) Cisco Nexus
12 9 (18.00%) IPsec
12 9 (18.00%) VXLAN
13 8 (16.00%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (16.00%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
1 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (8.00%) Finance
1 4 (8.00%) Financial Institution
1 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.00%) Legal
3 1 (2.00%) Police
3 1 (2.00%) Publishing
3 1 (2.00%) Retail
3 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (70.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Senior
3 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Network Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Designer
7 3 (6.00%) Network Designer
7 3 (6.00%) Network Security Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Network Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Network Security Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Security Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Security Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) gRPC
3 1 (2.00%) NETCONF
3 1 (2.00%) REST
3 1 (2.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 3 (6.00%) CMDB
3 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.00%) BYOD
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Life Science
5 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) ITIL
2 11 (22.00%) High Availability
2 11 (22.00%) Incident Management
3 8 (16.00%) Patch Management
4 7 (14.00%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (14.00%) Network Segmentation
4 7 (14.00%) Zero Trust
5 6 (12.00%) Change Management
5 6 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (12.00%) Load Balancing
6 5 (10.00%) Migration
6 5 (10.00%) Validation
7 4 (8.00%) Data Protection
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 4 (8.00%) Network Management
7 4 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (8.00%) Performance Analysis
8 3 (6.00%) Observability
8 3 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (6.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (26.00%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (16.00%) CCNP
5 5 (10.00%) CCNA
6 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared
7 3 (6.00%) CCIE
8 2 (4.00%) CWNA
9 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
9 1 (2.00%) Degree
9 1 (2.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.00%) vSphere
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Firmware
3 1 (2.00%) KVM
3 1 (2.00%) ProxySG
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Ansible
2 4 (8.00%) Nagios
3 3 (6.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (98.00%) Cisco
2 33 (66.00%) Palo Alto
3 24 (48.00%) CheckPoint
4 15 (30.00%) F5
5 11 (22.00%) Fortinet
6 10 (20.00%) SolarWinds
7 9 (18.00%) Meraki
8 8 (16.00%) Juniper
9 6 (12.00%) VMware
10 4 (8.00%) Citrix
10 4 (8.00%) SevOne
11 3 (6.00%) NetScout
12 2 (4.00%) Aruba
12 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
13 1 (2.00%) Blue Coat
13 1 (2.00%) Forcepoint
13 1 (2.00%) IBM
13 1 (2.00%) McAfee
13 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
13 1 (2.00%) Splunk