EIGRP Contract Job Trends in the North West

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring EIGRP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 95 136
Rank change year-on-year -54 +41 +30
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 3 28 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 1.30% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.84% 8.54% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 3
10th Percentile £326 £463 £336
25th Percentile £366 £488 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +33.33% -5.71%
75th Percentile £516 £579 £432
90th Percentile £559 £618 £440
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

EIGRP 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 357 328 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.14% 15.26% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 170 316
10th Percentile £170 £180 £302
25th Percentile £330 £352 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -7.85% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £626
90th Percentile £678 £618 £672
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.76 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £22.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%
75th Percentile £69.00 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.14 £49.38
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +26.38%

EIGRP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EIGRP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

EIGRP job vacancy trend in the North West

EIGRP
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing EIGRP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing EIGRP

EIGRP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EIGRP in the North West over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EIGRP in the North West

EIGRP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing EIGRP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing EIGRP

EIGRP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EIGRP within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Manchester -12 2 £438 -22.22%
Cheshire -20 1 - - 1
EIGRP
England

EIGRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) IPsec
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) 802.11
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) TACACS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Packet Inspection
2 1 (33.33%) Escalation Management
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet