HSRP Contracts in the North of England

Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring HSRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HSRP 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 132 172 216
Rank change year-on-year +40 +44 +15
Contract jobs citing HSRP 34 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.03% 0.27% 0.069%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.16% 2.17% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 4
10th Percentile £310 £463 £534
25th Percentile £475 £483 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £515 £700
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -26.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £588 £515 -
90th Percentile £606 £519 -
England median daily rate £575 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +10.58% +4.00% -3.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

HSRP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing HSRP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for HSRP in the North of England

HSRP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HSRP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for HSRP in the North of England

HSRP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for HSRP in the North of England

HSRP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HSRP within the North of 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
North West +36 32 £575 +11.65% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £200 -
North East - 1 £250 -
HSRP
England

HSRP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (100.00%) BGP
2 33 (97.06%) OSPF
3 32 (94.12%) IPsec
4 30 (88.24%) EIGRP
5 24 (70.59%) Cisco ASA
5 24 (70.59%) Cisco Firepower
6 21 (61.76%) Firewall
7 6 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (14.71%) NetScaler
8 5 (14.71%) VPN
9 4 (11.76%) Broadband
9 4 (11.76%) Converged Networks
9 4 (11.76%) LAN
9 4 (11.76%) Network Security
9 4 (11.76%) WAN
10 1 (2.94%) DHCP
10 1 (2.94%) DNS
10 1 (2.94%) MPLS
10 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
10 1 (2.94%) VLAN
General
1 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (97.06%) Network Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Senior
3 3 (8.82%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Junior
4 1 (2.94%) Junior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Junior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Junior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) ITSM
2 7 (20.59%) Network Management
3 6 (17.65%) ITIL
4 4 (11.76%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.94%) Incident Management
5 1 (2.94%) Network Design
5 1 (2.94%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 31 (91.18%) SC Cleared
1 31 (91.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) CCNA
2 6 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (70.59%) Palo Alto
3 19 (55.88%) CheckPoint
4 7 (20.59%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft