RIP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RIP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RIP over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 390 446
Rank change year-on-year +58 +56 +59
Contract jobs citing RIP 2 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.019% 0.038%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.10% 0.12% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £715 £355
25th Percentile - £719 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £738 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +55.26% +0.45%
75th Percentile - £756 £525
90th Percentile - £760 -
UK median daily rate - £725 £500
% change year-on-year - +45.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.08 £19.93
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.94 £22.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% -17.14% +19.32%
75th Percentile £19.50 £23.44 £30.56
90th Percentile - £24.23 £32.78
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £26.25
% change year-on-year -12.64% -17.14% +0.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

RIP 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,977 3,409 3,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.48% 16.47% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,953 2,274
10th Percentile £194 £203 £210
25th Percentile £303 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 359 327
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

RIP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RIP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RIP in the UK excluding London

RIP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RIP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for RIP in the UK excluding London

RIP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RIP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for RIP in the UK excluding London

RIP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RIP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +36 2 - - 1
RIP
UK

RIP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Communications Security
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Process Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCIP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) ADVA
2 1 (50.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds