RIP Contracts in England

Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring RIP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RIP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 536 635
Rank change year-on-year +66 +99 +127
Contract jobs citing RIP 15 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.016% 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.47% 0.12% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £323 £365
25th Percentile - £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +45.00% +5.73%
75th Percentile - £750 £525
90th Percentile - £758 £597
UK median daily rate - £725 £500
% change year-on-year - +45.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.08 £19.93
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.94 £22.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% -17.14% +0.96%
75th Percentile £19.50 £23.44 £30.56
90th Percentile - £24.23 £32.78
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £26.25
% change year-on-year -12.64% -17.14% +0.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

RIP 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 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

RIP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RIP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RIP in England

RIP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RIP in England.

Daily rate trend for RIP in England

RIP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RIP in England.

Hourly rate trend for RIP in England

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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 RIP within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +49 13 - - 7
South East +46 2 - - 1
RIP
UK

RIP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) BGP
1 15 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 15 (100.00%) OSPF
2 14 (93.33%) Firewall
2 14 (93.33%) Network Security
3 12 (80.00%) Spanning Tree
4 11 (73.33%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (53.33%) Wireshark
6 7 (46.67%) HSRP
6 7 (46.67%) VRRP
7 6 (40.00%) NX-OS
8 3 (20.00%) Ethernet
8 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
9 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (13.33%) MPLS
9 2 (13.33%) VPN
9 2 (13.33%) WAN
10 1 (6.67%) Junos
10 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
10 1 (6.67%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 13 (86.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) CatOS
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Matrix Organization
1 12 (80.00%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (73.33%) Service Management
3 5 (33.33%) ITIL
4 1 (6.67%) Change Management
4 1 (6.67%) Communications Security
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Network Management
4 1 (6.67%) Process Management
4 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (86.67%) CCNP
3 4 (26.67%) CCNA
3 4 (26.67%) CCSE
4 2 (13.33%) CCIE
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) BC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (6.67%) CCDP
5 1 (6.67%) CCIP
5 1 (6.67%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Nagios
1 1 (6.67%) OpenView
1 1 (6.67%) OPNET
1 1 (6.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (46.67%) Juniper
3 5 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.67%) ADVA
4 1 (6.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (6.67%) Blue Coat
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) McAfee
4 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds