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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 415 489
Rank change year-on-year -110 +74 +148
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 30 80 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.094% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.90% 2.32% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 33
10th Percentile £342 £333 £322
25th Percentile £450 £403 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +15.29% -
75th Percentile £533 £606 £504
90th Percentile £623 £640 £525
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year - -23.23% +3.13%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £27.75
90th Percentile - - £32.70
UK median hourly rate - £28.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +14.00% +4.17%

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 3,340 3,455 5,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.45% 12.84% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 2,011 3,200
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -3.15%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 106 332
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.93 £24.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +132.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +134.16%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -24 15 £475 +26.67% 8
North of England -83 6 £370 -32.73%
West Midlands -36 5 £525 +5.00% 3
Midlands -38 5 £525 +5.00% 3
North West -49 5 £300 -45.45%
South East -28 3 - - 6
South West - 1 £475 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £440 -
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 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 30 (100.00%) BGP
1 30 (100.00%) OSPF
2 21 (70.00%) Firewall
2 21 (70.00%) WAN
3 18 (60.00%) VPN
4 13 (43.33%) IPsec
4 13 (43.33%) MPLS
5 12 (40.00%) SD-WAN
6 11 (36.67%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (36.67%) DNS
6 11 (36.67%) VLAN
6 11 (36.67%) Wireless
7 9 (30.00%) LAN
7 9 (30.00%) VXLAN
8 6 (20.00%) DHCP
9 5 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (16.67%) HTTPS
9 5 (16.67%) Network Security
9 5 (16.67%) WLAN
10 4 (13.33%) IPv4
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Retail
4 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Finance
6 1 (3.33%) Billing
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Military
6 1 (3.33%) Police
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Architect
2 9 (30.00%) Network Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Network Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Project Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Network Security Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) 802.1X
1 4 (13.33%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.67%) PKI
3 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) iSeries
5 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 7 (23.33%) Network Design
3 6 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (20.00%) Zero Trust
4 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 5 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 4 (13.33%) Network Management
5 4 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (13.33%) Security Architecture
5 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (16.67%) C++
3 5 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (53.33%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (50.00%) CCNP
3 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (26.67%) CCIE
5 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (16.67%) JNCIA
6 5 (16.67%) JNCIS
7 4 (13.33%) CISSP
7 4 (13.33%) Degree
7 4 (13.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (10.00%) CCIE Security
8 3 (10.00%) CCSP
8 3 (10.00%) JNCIE
9 2 (6.67%) JNCIP
10 1 (3.33%) CCDE
10 1 (3.33%) CCNA
10 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.33%) GDPR
2 4 (13.33%) NIST
2 4 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 4 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Firmware
2 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Ansible
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (96.67%) Cisco
2 13 (43.33%) Juniper
3 11 (36.67%) F5
4 10 (33.33%) Fortinet
5 9 (30.00%) Meraki
6 7 (23.33%) CheckPoint
6 7 (23.33%) Palo Alto
7 5 (16.67%) Aruba
7 5 (16.67%) SolarWinds
8 4 (13.33%) VMware
9 3 (10.00%) Zscaler
10 2 (6.67%) Arista
10 2 (6.67%) Forcepoint
11 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (3.33%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (3.33%) McAfee
11 1 (3.33%) NVIDIA
11 1 (3.33%) Oracle
11 1 (3.33%) Remedy
11 1 (3.33%) Ruckus Wireless