VRRP Contracts in England

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VRRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VRRP 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 464 509 629
Rank change year-on-year +45 +120 +136
Contract jobs citing VRRP 21 33 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.089% 0.048%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.66% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 17
10th Percentile £393 £353 £325
25th Percentile £498 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £600 £390
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +53.85% -27.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £450
90th Percentile £603 - £503
UK median daily rate £584 £600 £390
% change year-on-year -2.71% +53.85% -25.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

VRRP 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%

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VRRP in England

VRRP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VRRP in England

VRRP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VRRP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VRRP in England

VRRP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VRRP in England

VRRP
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 VRRP 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 +26 18 £550 -8.33% 7
South West - 1 - - 1
VRRP
UK

VRRP
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 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 20 (95.24%) BGP
1 20 (95.24%) Firewall
1 20 (95.24%) OSPF
2 19 (90.48%) HSRP
3 12 (57.14%) EIGRP
4 10 (47.62%) IGMP
4 10 (47.62%) Multicast
5 8 (38.10%) Network Security
6 7 (33.33%) RIP
6 7 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
6 7 (33.33%) Wireshark
7 6 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (28.57%) NX-OS
8 5 (23.81%) IPsec
9 4 (19.05%) DNS
9 4 (19.05%) VPN
10 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (14.29%) VLAN
11 2 (9.52%) BIG-IP
11 2 (9.52%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (90.48%) Network Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Hedge funds
2 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) Derivative
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Low Latency
2 9 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
3 7 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
4 6 (28.57%) Service Management
5 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
6 3 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
6 3 (14.29%) Network Design
7 2 (9.52%) Electronic Trading
7 2 (9.52%) Fintech
7 2 (9.52%) High-Frequency Trading
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 2 (9.52%) Migration
7 2 (9.52%) Network Management
7 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
8 1 (4.76%) Analytics
8 1 (4.76%) Capacity Management
8 1 (4.76%) High Availability
8 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
8 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (47.62%) CCNP
3 3 (14.29%) CCIE
3 3 (14.29%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) JNCIA
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Puppet
3 4 (19.05%) FortiGate
4 2 (9.52%) ZABBIX
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (4.76%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Cisco
2 9 (42.86%) Arista
2 9 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
4 3 (14.29%) F5
4 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.52%) Juniper
5 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.76%) Aruba
6 1 (4.76%) Veeam
6 1 (4.76%) Zscaler