VRRP Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring VRRP 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 148 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing VRRP 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.034% - 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.25% - 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
South East median daily rate £450 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -7.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 398 267 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.71% 17.62% 23.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 130 307
10th Percentile £263 £244 £205
25th Percentile £381 £382 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -3.25% -
75th Percentile £588 £574 £584
90th Percentile £640 £631 £643
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £484
% change year-on-year +2.04% +1.24% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 51
10th Percentile £16.01 - £18.00
25th Percentile £19.34 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £31.94 £14.20 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.93% -71.60% -24.24%
75th Percentile £53.81 £22.09 £85.65
90th Percentile £72.80 £31.44 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £48.11 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -12.53% -4.10% +27.44%

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

VRRP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

VRRP
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VRRP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VRRP

VRRP
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VRRP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VRRP

VRRP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VRRP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 April 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 -
VRRP
South East

VRRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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