HSRP Contract Job Trends in Reading

Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring HSRP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - 91
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing HSRP 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.096% - 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.80% - 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £260
25th Percentile - - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.53%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -18.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 125 100 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.01% 16.23% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 36 111
10th Percentile £285 £248 £205
25th Percentile £413 £359 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -8.16% -9.26%
75th Percentile £618 £559 £608
90th Percentile £688 £644 -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 12
10th Percentile £16.01 - £77.10
25th Percentile £16.84 - £85.13
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £87.46
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.52%
75th Percentile £57.00 - £87.53
90th Percentile £80.60 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.25 £24.66 £83.77
% change year-on-year +71.33% -70.56% +26.92%

HSRP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

HSRP job vacancy trend in Reading

HSRP
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing HSRP

HSRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IP Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Ekahau
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet