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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 420 469
Rank change year-on-year -147 +49 +90
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 31 77 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.072% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.76% 2.40% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 66
10th Percentile - £288 £400
25th Percentile £400 £366 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £475 £534 £525
90th Percentile £515 £597 £550
UK median daily rate £419 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -9.95% -2.11% +5.56%
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 4,096 3,205 4,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.48% 12.87% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 1,996 2,882
10th Percentile £250 £227 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 129 394
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.59 £13.61
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £29.52 £39.32 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.92% -5.25% +121.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.50 £73.14
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.91% +12.50% +110.53%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -86 14 £400 - 2
North of England -103 5 £300 -40.00% 1
North West -68 4 £300 -40.00%
South West -27 3 £450 -
South East -63 3 £460 +8.24% 1
Yorkshire -60 1 £475 +35.71% 1
Midlands -65 1 £413 -21.43% 2
West Midlands -66 1 £413 -21.43% 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 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) AWS
1 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (3.23%) OCI
2 1 (3.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (93.55%) OSPF
2 27 (87.10%) BGP
3 25 (80.65%) WAN
4 23 (74.19%) Firewall
5 18 (58.06%) Network Security
6 17 (54.84%) LAN
6 17 (54.84%) MPLS
7 14 (45.16%) Cisco ASA
7 14 (45.16%) VLAN
8 12 (38.71%) Multicast
9 10 (32.26%) SD-WAN
9 10 (32.26%) VXLAN
10 8 (25.81%) VPN
10 8 (25.81%) Wireless
11 7 (22.58%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (22.58%) IPsec
12 5 (16.13%) 802.11
12 5 (16.13%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (12.90%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (12.90%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Financial Institution
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Police
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.23%) Billing
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Military
4 1 (3.23%) Publishing
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Senior
2 10 (32.26%) Network Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Network Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) IP Network Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) BYOD
3 1 (3.23%) Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) iSeries
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (16.13%) Migration
2 5 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (16.13%) Zero Trust
3 4 (12.90%) Load Balancing
3 4 (12.90%) Network Design
4 3 (9.68%) Agile
4 3 (9.68%) Escalation Management
4 3 (9.68%) ITIL
4 3 (9.68%) Network Architecture
4 3 (9.68%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (9.68%) Validation
5 2 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (6.45%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (6.45%) Deep Packet Inspection
5 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (6.45%) Observability
5 2 (6.45%) Project Delivery
5 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (12.90%) CCNP
4 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.45%) Degree
6 1 (3.23%) CCIE
6 1 (3.23%) CCNA
6 1 (3.23%) CWNA
6 1 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.45%) KVM
2 2 (6.45%) vSphere
3 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.23%) ProxySG
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (87.10%) Cisco
2 16 (51.61%) Palo Alto
3 15 (48.39%) F5
4 12 (38.71%) CheckPoint
5 7 (22.58%) Fortinet
6 4 (12.90%) Juniper
7 3 (9.68%) Meraki
7 3 (9.68%) VMware
8 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
9 1 (3.23%) AppDynamics
9 1 (3.23%) Aruba
9 1 (3.23%) Blue Coat
9 1 (3.23%) Dell
9 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
9 1 (3.23%) Ekahau
9 1 (3.23%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (3.23%) McAfee