EIGRP Contracts

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring EIGRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EIGRP over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 514 648
Rank change year-on-year +88 +134 +68
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 93 86 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.49% 1.52% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 68 34
10th Percentile £265 £337 £316
25th Percentile £394 £425 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% +5.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £596 £519 £625
90th Percentile £634 £550 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +8.89% +5.88% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £19.93 £19.93
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.06 £22.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -8.57% +0.96%
75th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £30.56
90th Percentile - - £32.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £26.25
% change year-on-year -12.64% -17.14% +19.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

EIGRP 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

EIGRP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing EIGRP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for EIGRP in the UK

EIGRP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EIGRP.

Daily rate trend for EIGRP in the UK

EIGRP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EIGRP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EIGRP in the UK

EIGRP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing EIGRP.

Hourly rate trend for EIGRP in the UK

EIGRP
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EIGRP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +63 85 £495 +10.00% 20
UK excluding London +55 55 £490 +8.89% 22
North of England +50 39 £500 -0.79% 3
North West +31 35 £500 -2.44% 3
London +35 32 £400 -15.79% 5
Work from Home +43 16 £513 +5.13% 15
South East +15 6 £600 +33.33% 2
Scotland +12 4 £456 -17.05% 7
West Midlands - 3 £335 - 5
Midlands - 3 £335 - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £350 -
South West +43 1 - - 5
North East -1 1 £250 -27.54%
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -
East of England - 1 £400 -

EIGRP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.75%) AWS
2 5 (5.38%) Azure
3 2 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.08%) Akamai
4 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.08%) Datadog
4 1 (1.08%) GitHub
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.08%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 92 (98.92%) BGP
1 92 (98.92%) OSPF
2 65 (69.89%) Firewall
3 43 (46.24%) Network Security
4 42 (45.16%) HSRP
5 37 (39.78%) IPsec
6 33 (35.48%) WAN
7 32 (34.41%) Cisco ASA
8 30 (32.26%) VPN
9 25 (26.88%) Cisco Firepower
10 20 (21.51%) LAN
11 19 (20.43%) Wireless
12 17 (18.28%) SD-WAN
13 15 (16.13%) MPLS
13 15 (16.13%) RIP
14 13 (13.98%) Cisco IOS
14 13 (13.98%) DNS
14 13 (13.98%) Spanning Tree
15 12 (12.90%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (12.90%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.08%) GitLab
2 1 (1.08%) JIRA
General
1 29 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.11%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.83%) Telecoms
5 8 (8.60%) Finance
6 4 (4.30%) Legal
7 2 (2.15%) Electronics
7 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.15%) Marketing
8 1 (1.08%) Aviation
8 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Military
8 1 (1.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 69 (74.19%) Network Engineer
2 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 11 (11.83%) Senior
4 8 (8.60%) Architect
4 8 (8.60%) Network Architect
4 8 (8.60%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) Network Security Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) IP Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) WAN Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Consultant
7 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Juniper Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (3.23%) Transmission Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) WAN Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.98%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.15%) JSON
3 1 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.08%) REST
3 1 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.15%) Clustering
2 2 (2.15%) NHS
3 1 (1.08%) IoT
3 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.08%) PKI
3 1 (1.08%) SCADA
3 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.45%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) CatOS
3 4 (4.30%) Unix
4 3 (3.23%) Windows
5 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.73%) Network Monitoring
2 20 (21.51%) Network Design
3 19 (20.43%) ITIL
4 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.20%) Network Management
6 12 (12.90%) Matrix Organization
7 11 (11.83%) Service Management
8 10 (10.75%) Change Management
9 9 (9.68%) ITSM
10 8 (8.60%) High Availability
11 7 (7.53%) Project Delivery
11 7 (7.53%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (5.38%) Mentoring
12 5 (5.38%) Proactive Monitoring
12 5 (5.38%) Service Delivery
13 4 (4.30%) Collaborative Working
13 4 (4.30%) Configuration Management
13 4 (4.30%) Network Planning
13 4 (4.30%) Patch Management
13 4 (4.30%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.60%) Python
2 4 (4.30%) Perl
3 2 (2.15%) Bash
4 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (47.31%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (44.09%) Security Cleared
3 38 (40.86%) CCNP
4 36 (38.71%) SC Cleared
5 13 (13.98%) CCNA
6 8 (8.60%) Degree
7 7 (7.53%) CCIE
8 6 (6.45%) CCSA
8 6 (6.45%) CCSE
9 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (3.23%) JNCIS
10 2 (2.15%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.08%) CCDP
11 1 (1.08%) CCIP
11 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.08%) JNCIE
11 1 (1.08%) JNCIP
11 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.15%) DICOM
1 2 (2.15%) HL7
1 2 (2.15%) QA
2 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.23%) Firmware
2 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) Ansible
2 3 (3.23%) CA Spectrum
3 2 (2.15%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.08%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.08%) Nagios
4 1 (1.08%) OpenView
4 1 (1.08%) OPNET
4 1 (1.08%) Terraform
4 1 (1.08%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.08%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 87 (93.55%) Cisco
2 35 (37.63%) CheckPoint
2 35 (37.63%) Palo Alto
3 21 (22.58%) Juniper
4 15 (16.13%) SolarWinds
5 10 (10.75%) F5
6 7 (7.53%) Fortinet
6 7 (7.53%) Meraki
7 4 (4.30%) Aruba
7 4 (4.30%) BMC
7 4 (4.30%) Huawei
7 4 (4.30%) Remedy
8 3 (3.23%) Arista
8 3 (3.23%) McAfee
8 3 (3.23%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.15%) EMC
9 2 (2.15%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (2.15%) Mitel
9 2 (2.15%) Oracle
9 2 (2.15%) SAP