Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HSRP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HSRP over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 670 791
Rank change year-on-year +132 +121 -116
Contract jobs citing HSRP 49 36 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.062% 0.045%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.90% 0.50% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 22 30
10th Percentile £323 £371 £362
25th Percentile £463 £413 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -5.50% +2.04%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £550
90th Percentile £613 £700 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% +44.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

HSRP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,417 7,157 9,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.70% 12.42% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,232 4,624 6,284
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £694 £722 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 470 369
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.20
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -10.42%

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 14 May 2024.

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 10 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 14 May 2024. 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 +127 48 £518 +8.97% 14
London +103 27 £600 +27.66% 4
UK excluding London +58 21 £475 - 11
North West +35 13 £515 +14.44% 1
North of England +28 13 £515 +8.42% 1
Work from Home +117 9 £495 -26.67% 6
South East +19 7 £349 -25.94% 3
Midlands +18 1 - - 2
West Midlands +15 1 - -
South West +9 1 £200 - 4

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:

Applications
1 7 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) AWS
1 11 (22.45%) Azure
2 5 (10.20%) OCI
3 3 (6.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 47 (95.92%) BGP
2 34 (69.39%) SNMP
3 33 (67.35%) Firewall
4 31 (63.27%) OSPF
5 27 (55.10%) IPsec
6 26 (53.06%) Cisco ASA
6 26 (53.06%) MPLS
7 22 (44.90%) EIGRP
7 22 (44.90%) Spanning Tree
8 21 (42.86%) VRRP
9 19 (38.78%) Cisco ISE
9 19 (38.78%) IPv4
10 17 (34.69%) Cisco Firepower
10 17 (34.69%) VPLS
11 16 (32.65%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (30.61%) Ethernet VPN
12 15 (30.61%) VLAN
13 14 (28.57%) RSVP
14 13 (26.53%) NetScaler
15 11 (22.45%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Git
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.04%) Finance
3 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (61.22%) Network Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) Senior
3 14 (28.57%) IP Expert
3 14 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Cisco Expert
5 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (4.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Network Support
8 2 (4.08%) Network Support Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (59.18%) Jinja
2 17 (34.69%) JSON
2 17 (34.69%) NETCONF
2 17 (34.69%) XML
2 17 (34.69%) YANG
3 12 (24.49%) 802.1X
4 3 (6.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Distributed Architecture
2 11 (22.45%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.20%) PKI
4 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) DevOps
2 15 (30.61%) Change Management
2 15 (30.61%) ITIL
3 14 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 13 (26.53%) Network Management
5 12 (24.49%) ITSM
6 6 (12.24%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (8.16%) Computer Science
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (6.12%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (6.12%) Mentoring
9 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (4.08%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (4.08%) Network Design
9 2 (4.08%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (4.08%) Project Delivery
9 2 (4.08%) Project Management
9 2 (4.08%) Risk Assessment
9 2 (4.08%) Statistics
10 1 (2.04%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.86%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) Perl
2 12 (24.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 30 (61.22%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (44.90%) CCNP
3 20 (40.82%) CCNA
4 16 (32.65%) SC Cleared
4 16 (32.65%) Security Cleared
5 7 (14.29%) CCIE
5 7 (14.29%) CCIE Service Provider
6 5 (10.20%) AWS Certification
6 5 (10.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (10.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Firmware
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Ansible
2 9 (18.37%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (4.08%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (83.67%) Cisco
2 24 (48.98%) Palo Alto
3 20 (40.82%) SolarWinds
4 14 (28.57%) Nokia
5 13 (26.53%) Citrix
6 11 (22.45%) Juniper
7 9 (18.37%) F5
8 8 (16.33%) CheckPoint
8 8 (16.33%) Fortinet
8 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
9 5 (10.20%) Google
9 5 (10.20%) Infoblox
10 4 (8.16%) Aruba
11 3 (6.12%) Meraki
12 2 (4.08%) SonicWALL
13 1 (2.04%) Arista
13 1 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (2.04%) Extreme Networks