VRRP Contract Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VRRP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 - 197
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing VRRP 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.017% - 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.03%
England median daily rate £425 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -27.66% -2.08% +54.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 742 520 1,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.32% 17.40% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 353 580
10th Percentile £300 £222 £206
25th Percentile £413 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% +4.05%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £623 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 25 138
10th Percentile £17.63 £14.20 £17.26
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.85 £29.81
Median hourly rate £42.25 £41.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -28.51% -4.42%
75th Percentile £56.21 £58.69 £69.26
90th Percentile £60.00 £61.55 £85.65
England median hourly rate £29.04 £39.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year -26.14% -1.70% +122.22%

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

VRRP job vacancy trend in the South East

VRRP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VRRP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VRRP

VRRP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VRRP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VRRP

VRRP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VRRP within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. 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
Berkshire - 1 £450 -
Thames Valley - 1 £450 - 1
VRRP
England

VRRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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%) HSRP
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%) 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