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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 382 464
Rank change year-on-year -161 +82 +149
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 35 95 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.095% 0.39% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.95% 2.85% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 40 61
10th Percentile £390 £265 £335
25th Percentile £400 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% +8.89% -
75th Percentile £482 £589 £520
90th Percentile £591 £633 £550
UK median daily rate £425 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -11.92% +1.58% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £23.55
25th Percentile - £18.50 £24.00
Median hourly rate £72.54 £19.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +281.79% -22.45% +2.08%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £24.81
90th Percentile - - £24.93
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £19.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +281.79% -22.45% +2.08%

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 3,703 3,332 5,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.03% 13.60% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,379 2,051 3,201
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £375 £375 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 114 376
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £14.08
25th Percentile £18.94 £21.46 £18.93
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +84.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +71.05%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -57 17 £400 +6.67% 2
North of England -102 6 £370 -26.00%
West Midlands -53 5 £525 +262.07% 2
Midlands -57 5 £525 +262.07% 3
North West -75 5 £300 -40.00%
South East -52 4 £470 -21.67% 3
South West - 2 £475 -
Yorkshire -59 1 £440 -12.00%
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 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 5 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (11.43%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.86%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 35 (100.00%) OSPF
2 34 (97.14%) BGP
3 31 (88.57%) WAN
4 29 (82.86%) Firewall
5 21 (60.00%) MPLS
6 20 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
7 18 (51.43%) LAN
8 17 (48.57%) VPN
9 15 (42.86%) Network Security
10 14 (40.00%) SD-WAN
10 14 (40.00%) VLAN
11 11 (31.43%) Wireless
12 10 (28.57%) Multicast
13 9 (25.71%) VXLAN
14 7 (20.00%) DHCP
14 7 (20.00%) DNS
15 6 (17.14%) Cisco Nexus
15 6 (17.14%) IPsec
16 5 (14.29%) 802.11
16 5 (14.29%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 9 (25.71%) Financial Institution
3 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.43%) Retail
6 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Billing
8 1 (2.86%) Legal
8 1 (2.86%) Military
8 1 (2.86%) Police
8 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Network Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Senior
3 9 (25.71%) Architect
3 9 (25.71%) Network Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Network Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) 802.1X
2 4 (11.43%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) BYOD
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) iSeries
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.86%) PKI
4 1 (2.86%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 9 (25.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (22.86%) Zero Trust
4 7 (20.00%) Network Design
5 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
5 6 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 5 (14.29%) Network Management
6 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (11.43%) ITIL
7 4 (11.43%) Network Architecture
7 4 (11.43%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (11.43%) Security Architecture
7 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (8.57%) Agile
8 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
8 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (8.57%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (25.71%) CCNP
2 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) CCIE
4 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (14.29%) Degree
6 4 (11.43%) CISSP
6 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
7 3 (8.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
7 3 (8.57%) CCIE Security
7 3 (8.57%) CCSP
8 2 (5.71%) CCNA
8 2 (5.71%) JNCIE
8 2 (5.71%) JNCIP
9 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 4 (11.43%) NIST
2 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
2 4 (11.43%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (11.43%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
2 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.86%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Ansible
2 5 (14.29%) Terraform
3 4 (11.43%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 32 (91.43%) Cisco
2 19 (54.29%) F5
3 16 (45.71%) Palo Alto
4 14 (40.00%) CheckPoint
5 10 (28.57%) Fortinet
5 10 (28.57%) Meraki
6 5 (14.29%) Aruba
6 5 (14.29%) Juniper
6 5 (14.29%) SolarWinds
7 4 (11.43%) VMware
8 3 (8.57%) Zscaler
9 2 (5.71%) Forcepoint
9 2 (5.71%) McAfee
10 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
10 1 (2.86%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (2.86%) Dell
10 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
10 1 (2.86%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (2.86%) Mellanox
10 1 (2.86%) NVIDIA