EIGRP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring EIGRP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 106 111
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +73
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 7 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.27% 1.92% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £508 £430 £400
25th Percentile £509 £456 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £441
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +13.31% +21.72%
75th Percentile £538 - £513
90th Percentile - - £575
England median daily rate £475 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -1.30% +6.94% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 309 260 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.14% 13.91% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 155 218
10th Percentile £241 £170 £200
25th Percentile £307 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £564
90th Percentile £600 £674 £716
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 21
10th Percentile £18.50 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £24.75 £31.56 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +50.68%
75th Percentile £38.94 £41.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £48.25 £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £33.39 £57.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -41.69% +1.35% +36.12%

EIGRP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EIGRP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

EIGRP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

EIGRP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing EIGRP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing EIGRP

EIGRP
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing EIGRP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing EIGRP

EIGRP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EIGRP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Herefordshire - 3 £519 - 1
Birmingham - 2 £525 - 2
Solihull - 2 - -
EIGRP
England

EIGRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) IPsec
3 5 (71.43%) VLAN
4 4 (57.14%) WAN
4 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
5 3 (42.86%) DMVPN
5 3 (42.86%) Network Security
5 3 (42.86%) Unified Communications
5 3 (42.86%) Wireless
6 2 (28.57%) DHCP
6 2 (28.57%) DNS
6 2 (28.57%) HTTP
6 2 (28.57%) LAN
6 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (28.57%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (28.57%) SSL
6 2 (28.57%) TACACS
7 1 (14.29%) MPLS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Coaching
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Product Backlog
2 2 (28.57%) Product Management
2 2 (28.57%) Product Requirements
2 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Product Vision
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cryptography
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CCNP
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) CCIE
4 1 (14.29%) CCNA
4 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
4 1 (14.29%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Def Stans
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) Juniper
2 6 (85.71%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) Arista
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (14.29%) Meraki