VRRP Contracts

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VRRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VRRP 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 499 549 692
Rank change year-on-year +50 +143 +140
Contract jobs citing VRRP 21 33 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.076% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 0.59% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 17
10th Percentile £393 £353 £325
25th Percentile £498 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £600 £390
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +53.85% -25.71%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £450
90th Percentile £603 - £503
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £394
% change year-on-year - +1.59% -25.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

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%

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 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 +45 21 £584 -2.71% 9
London +26 18 £550 -8.33% 6
Work from Home +41 3 £580 +65.71% 4
UK excluding London +61 1 - - 4
South West - 1 - - 1

VRRP
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 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 20 (95.24%) BGP
1 20 (95.24%) Firewall
1 20 (95.24%) OSPF
2 19 (90.48%) HSRP
3 12 (57.14%) EIGRP
4 10 (47.62%) IGMP
4 10 (47.62%) Multicast
5 8 (38.10%) Network Security
6 7 (33.33%) RIP
6 7 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
6 7 (33.33%) Wireshark
7 6 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (28.57%) NX-OS
8 5 (23.81%) IPsec
9 4 (19.05%) DNS
9 4 (19.05%) VPN
10 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (14.29%) VLAN
11 2 (9.52%) BIG-IP
11 2 (9.52%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (90.48%) Network Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Hedge funds
2 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) Derivative
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Low Latency
2 9 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
3 7 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
4 6 (28.57%) Service Management
5 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
6 3 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
6 3 (14.29%) Network Design
7 2 (9.52%) Electronic Trading
7 2 (9.52%) Fintech
7 2 (9.52%) High-Frequency Trading
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 2 (9.52%) Migration
7 2 (9.52%) Network Management
7 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
8 1 (4.76%) Analytics
8 1 (4.76%) Capacity Management
8 1 (4.76%) High Availability
8 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
8 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (47.62%) CCNP
3 3 (14.29%) CCIE
3 3 (14.29%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) JNCIA
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Puppet
3 4 (19.05%) FortiGate
4 2 (9.52%) ZABBIX
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (4.76%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Cisco
2 9 (42.86%) Arista
2 9 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
4 3 (14.29%) F5
4 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.52%) Juniper
5 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.76%) Aruba
6 1 (4.76%) Veeam
6 1 (4.76%) Zscaler