VRRP Contract Job Trends

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VRRP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 528 612
Rank change year-on-year -21 +84 +190
Contract jobs citing VRRP 7 27 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.072% 0.040%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.19% 0.60% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 12
10th Percentile - £438 £337
25th Percentile £463 £463 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +28.57% -10.26%
75th Percentile £488 £625 £588
90th Percentile - £640 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £563 £394
% change year-on-year - +42.86% +19.77%

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 3,766 4,520 6,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.35% 12.06% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,405 2,598 4,057
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £356 £365 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £679 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £465
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 179 323
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.09 £17.22
25th Percentile £20.04 £25.38 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -29.98% -14.04% +37.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.72 £55.00 £57.42
% change year-on-year -24.15% -4.21% +27.59%

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VRRP job vacancy trend in the UK

VRRP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

VRRP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

VRRP
Top 5 Contract Job 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 14 October 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 -15 6 £475 -15.56% 10
London +22 4 £475 - 9
UK excluding London -36 2 - - 5
South West - 2 - -
Work from Home +16 1 - - 12

VRRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) OSPF
3 5 (71.43%) EIGRP
3 5 (71.43%) WAN
4 4 (57.14%) HSRP
5 3 (42.86%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (42.86%) VLAN
5 3 (42.86%) VPN
6 2 (28.57%) IPsec
6 2 (28.57%) LAN
6 2 (28.57%) Network Security
6 2 (28.57%) WLAN
7 1 (14.29%) DHCP
7 1 (14.29%) DNS
7 1 (14.29%) MPLS
7 1 (14.29%) RIP
7 1 (14.29%) SSL
7 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
1 1 (14.29%) CrewAI
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) LangChain
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) SCADA
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Network Design
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) AI
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Two-Factor Authentication
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIP
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) KVM
1 1 (14.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Juniper
3 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
4 2 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
5 1 (14.29%) AlgoSec
5 1 (14.29%) Arista
5 1 (14.29%) Aruba
5 1 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 1 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 1 (14.29%) Google
5 1 (14.29%) Mellanox
5 1 (14.29%) NetApp
5 1 (14.29%) NVIDIA
5 1 (14.29%) Zscaler