HSRP Contract Job Trends in London

Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring HSRP 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 357 375 427
Rank change year-on-year +18 +52 +138
Contract jobs citing HSRP 4 13 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% 0.081% 0.043%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.84% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £425 £405
25th Percentile - £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £581 £575
Median % change year-on-year -31.18% +1.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £681 £588
90th Percentile - £715 -
England median daily rate £300 £563 £450
% change year-on-year -46.67% +25.00% -14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

HSRP 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,277 1,554 2,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 9.72% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 962 1,488
10th Percentile £282 £256 £252
25th Percentile £404 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £725 £750
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 45
10th Percentile £18.69 £23.80 -
25th Percentile - £24.39 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +10.83%
75th Percentile £40.00 £61.69 £61.75
90th Percentile £62.65 £75.27 £79.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +35.31%

HSRP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

HSRP job vacancy trend in London

HSRP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HSRP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HSRP

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HSRP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HSRP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) IPsec
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) VRRP
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) 802.11
4 1 (25.00%) InfiniBand
4 1 (25.00%) LTE
4 1 (25.00%) NGFW
4 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Aruba
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Mellanox
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (25.00%) Zscaler