VRRP Contract Job Trends in London

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London 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 357 379 424
Rank change year-on-year +22 +45 +148
Contract jobs citing VRRP 4 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% 0.056% 0.058%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.58% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £388 £488
25th Percentile £463 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £588
90th Percentile - £645 -
England median daily rate £475 £563 £513
% change year-on-year -15.56% +9.76% +10.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 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%

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VRRP job vacancy trend in London

VRRP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VRRP

VRRP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VRRP

VRRP
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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) EIGRP
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) HSRP
3 2 (50.00%) IPsec
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (25.00%) InfiniBand
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) MPLS
4 1 (25.00%) RIP
4 1 (25.00%) SSL
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (25.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
1 1 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) AlgoSec
3 1 (25.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Mellanox
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (25.00%) Zscaler