VRRP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 436 346 398
Rank change year-on-year -90 +52 +27
Contract jobs citing VRRP 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.015% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 0.099% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £372 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile £443 - -
UK median daily rate £413 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -29.79% -2.08% +54.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,743 2,023 3,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.87% 15.29% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,615 1,251 1,860
10th Percentile £231 £200 £203
25th Percentile £375 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £483
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -2.95% +1.74%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £600
90th Percentile £653 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £498
% change year-on-year +3.09% -2.51% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 124 357
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.44 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.79 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -33.07% +156.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.88 £73.45
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% +10.00% +113.73%

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VRRP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

VRRP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VRRP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VRRP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VRRP

VRRP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VRRP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VRRP

VRRP
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 VRRP within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland - 2 £388 - 1
Midlands - 1 £413 -
South East - 1 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £413 -
VRRP
UK

VRRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) HSRP
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (50.00%) Multicast
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (25.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) IP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IP Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IP Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior IP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior IP Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (25.00%) Ekahau
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds