VRRP Contract Job Trends in England

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VRRP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 503 575
Rank change year-on-year -15 +72 +191
Contract jobs citing VRRP 6 25 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.021% 0.078% 0.042%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.64% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £438 £374
25th Percentile £463 £463 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +9.76% +10.81%
75th Percentile £488 £625 £588
90th Percentile - £640 -
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £438
% change year-on-year -15.56% +28.57% -10.26%

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 3,271 3,889 5,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.63% 12.17% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,092 2,237 3,514
10th Percentile £214 £240 £220
25th Percentile £357 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £688 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 147 306
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.87 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.32 £26.25 £23.02
Median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +35.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.26 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -29.98% -14.04% +37.73%

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VRRP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

VRRP job vacancy trend in England

VRRP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VRRP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VRRP

VRRP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VRRP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VRRP

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 14 October 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 +22 4 £475 - 9
South West - 2 - -
VRRP
UK

VRRP
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) BGP
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) EIGRP
2 5 (83.33%) OSPF
3 4 (66.67%) HSRP
3 4 (66.67%) WAN
4 3 (50.00%) VPN
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (33.33%) IPsec
5 2 (33.33%) LAN
5 2 (33.33%) Network Security
5 2 (33.33%) VLAN
5 2 (33.33%) WLAN
6 1 (16.67%) DHCP
6 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (16.67%) Internet
6 1 (16.67%) MPLS
6 1 (16.67%) RIP
6 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
1 1 (16.67%) CrewAI
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
1 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) KVM
1 1 (16.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) F5
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (16.67%) AlgoSec
4 1 (16.67%) Arista
4 1 (16.67%) Aruba
4 1 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) Mellanox
4 1 (16.67%) NetApp
4 1 (16.67%) NVIDIA
4 1 (16.67%) Zscaler