HSRP Contracts

Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HSRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HSRP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 520 681
Rank change year-on-year +70 +161 +133
Contract jobs citing HSRP 70 62 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.14% 0.062%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.88% 1.10% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 52 23
10th Percentile £257 £339 £371
25th Percentile £400 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £600 £622
90th Percentile £636 £613 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +17.89% -5.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

HSRP 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 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
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 £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

HSRP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HSRP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HSRP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +61 65 £575 +10.58% 15
UK excluding London +84 43 £560 +17.89% 12
North of England +40 34 £575 +11.65% 2
North West +36 32 £575 +11.65% 2
London +20 21 £600 - 4
Work from Home +38 8 £500 +1.01% 11
Midlands +24 4 £650 -
East Midlands - 4 £650 -
Wales - 3 £290 -
South West +46 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 £250 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £200 -
North East - 1 £250 -

HSRP
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (4.29%) AWS
2 2 (2.86%) Azure
2 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 69 (98.57%) OSPF
2 64 (91.43%) BGP
3 51 (72.86%) IPsec
4 50 (71.43%) Firewall
5 42 (60.00%) EIGRP
6 24 (34.29%) Cisco ASA
6 24 (34.29%) Cisco Firepower
7 20 (28.57%) Network Security
8 19 (27.14%) VRRP
9 12 (17.14%) DNS
9 12 (17.14%) VPN
9 12 (17.14%) WAN
10 10 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (14.29%) IGMP
10 10 (14.29%) LAN
10 10 (14.29%) Multicast
11 9 (12.86%) VLAN
12 8 (11.43%) MPLS
12 8 (11.43%) Spanning Tree
13 7 (10.00%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Finance
3 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.00%) Banking
4 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 61 (87.14%) Network Engineer
2 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Architect
4 7 (10.00%) Network Architect
5 6 (8.57%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Senior
6 4 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Exchange Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Data Centre Architect
8 1 (1.43%) Junior
8 1 (1.43%) Junior Cisco Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Junior Cisco Network Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Junior Network Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Lead Network Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Messaging Specialist
8 1 (1.43%) Network Security Architect
8 1 (1.43%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.86%) Derivative
3 2 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) SCADA
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.14%) Low Latency
2 11 (15.71%) Configuration Management
2 11 (15.71%) Network Management
3 9 (12.86%) ITSM
3 9 (12.86%) Network Monitoring
4 8 (11.43%) ITIL
4 8 (11.43%) Service Management
5 7 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
6 6 (8.57%) Network Design
7 5 (7.14%) Computer Science
7 5 (7.14%) Load Balancing
7 5 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (7.14%) Project Delivery
8 4 (5.71%) High Availability
9 3 (4.29%) Agile
9 3 (4.29%) Algorithmic Trading
10 2 (2.86%) Electronic Trading
10 2 (2.86%) Kanban
10 2 (2.86%) Migration
10 2 (2.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.14%) Python
2 2 (2.86%) Bash
2 2 (2.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 37 (52.86%) SC Cleared
3 28 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (30.00%) CCNP
5 10 (14.29%) CCNA
6 8 (11.43%) Degree
7 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.29%) CCIE
9 2 (2.86%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.86%) Ansible
2 5 (7.14%) Puppet
3 4 (5.71%) FortiGate
4 3 (4.29%) Cacti
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.86%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.43%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (1.43%) Netcool
6 1 (1.43%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) Cisco
2 31 (44.29%) Palo Alto
3 22 (31.43%) CheckPoint
4 19 (27.14%) SolarWinds
5 13 (18.57%) Fortinet
6 12 (17.14%) Juniper
7 11 (15.71%) Arista
7 11 (15.71%) F5
8 4 (5.71%) Aruba
9 2 (2.86%) IBM
9 2 (2.86%) Meraki
9 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.86%) Solace
9 2 (2.86%) TIBCO
9 2 (2.86%) VMware
10 1 (1.43%) Citrix
10 1 (1.43%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.43%) Zscaler