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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 389 444
Rank change year-on-year -168 +55 +153
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 37 86 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.094% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.97% 2.68% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 39 71
10th Percentile - £265 £335
25th Percentile £400 £369 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £480 £591 £517
90th Percentile £588 £650 £550
UK median daily rate £425 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -11.92% +7.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £70.70 - £23.45
25th Percentile £71.01 £18.50 £23.75
Median hourly rate £71.77 £19.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +277.74% -22.45% -14.04%
75th Percentile £72.28 £19.50 £24.75
90th Percentile £72.44 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.77 £19.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +277.74% -22.45% -14.04%

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 3,807 3,207 5,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.71% 13.16% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,406 2,009 3,122
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £480
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.08% -7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 124 395
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £19.06 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.07 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -7.32% +111.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.21 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £43.85 £37.50 £39.25
% change year-on-year +16.94% -4.46% +106.58%

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 April 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 12 April 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 -81 17 £400 - 2
South East -53 5 £460 -23.33% 3
West Midlands -63 5 £525 +262.07% 2
Midlands -63 5 £525 +262.07% 3
North West -66 5 £300 -45.45%
North of England -108 5 £300 -40.00%
South West - 4 £463 - 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) AWS
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
1 6 (16.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 5 (13.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.70%) OCI
5 1 (2.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 37 (100.00%) OSPF
2 35 (94.59%) BGP
3 31 (83.78%) WAN
4 29 (78.38%) Firewall
5 21 (56.76%) MPLS
6 19 (51.35%) Cisco ASA
7 18 (48.65%) LAN
8 17 (45.95%) VPN
9 15 (40.54%) VLAN
10 14 (37.84%) Network Security
10 14 (37.84%) SD-WAN
11 11 (29.73%) Multicast
11 11 (29.73%) Wireless
12 10 (27.03%) VXLAN
13 8 (21.62%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (18.92%) DHCP
14 7 (18.92%) DNS
15 6 (16.22%) IPsec
15 6 (16.22%) WLAN
16 5 (13.51%) 802.11
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (27.03%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Financial Institution
3 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.81%) Retail
6 3 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.70%) Billing
8 1 (2.70%) Military
8 1 (2.70%) Police
8 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Network Engineer
1 11 (29.73%) Senior
2 10 (27.03%) Architect
3 9 (24.32%) Network Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Network Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) IP Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) IP Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Senior IP Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Network Security Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) 802.1X
2 4 (10.81%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) BYOD
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) iSeries
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) PKI
4 1 (2.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Load Balancing
2 9 (24.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (21.62%) Network Design
3 8 (21.62%) Zero Trust
4 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
4 6 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (13.51%) Configuration Management
5 5 (13.51%) ITIL
5 5 (13.51%) Network Management
5 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.81%) Network Architecture
6 4 (10.81%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (10.81%) Security Architecture
6 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.11%) Escalation Management
7 3 (8.11%) IT Strategy
7 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
7 3 (8.11%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) CCNP
4 8 (21.62%) CCIE
5 5 (13.51%) Degree
6 4 (10.81%) CISSP
6 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
7 3 (8.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
7 3 (8.11%) CCIE Security
7 3 (8.11%) CCSP
8 2 (5.41%) JNCIE
8 2 (5.41%) JNCIP
9 1 (2.70%) CCNA
9 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.81%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) NIST
2 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
2 4 (10.81%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.81%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.41%) KVM
4 1 (2.70%) Firmware
4 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Ansible
2 5 (13.51%) FortiGate
2 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (89.19%) Cisco
2 21 (56.76%) F5
3 17 (45.95%) Palo Alto
4 15 (40.54%) CheckPoint
5 11 (29.73%) Fortinet
6 10 (27.03%) Meraki
7 5 (13.51%) Aruba
7 5 (13.51%) Juniper
7 5 (13.51%) SolarWinds
7 5 (13.51%) VMware
8 3 (8.11%) Zscaler
9 2 (5.41%) Forcepoint
9 2 (5.41%) McAfee
10 1 (2.70%) AppDynamics
10 1 (2.70%) Arista
10 1 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (2.70%) Dell
10 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
10 1 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (2.70%) NVIDIA