EIGRP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring EIGRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EIGRP 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 286 322 460
Rank change year-on-year +36 +138 +96
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 18 23 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.15% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.73% 1.43% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 10
10th Percentile £418 £335 £383
25th Percentile £430 £339 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £419
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +16.42% -1.47%
75th Percentile £589 £543 £484
90th Percentile £598 £729 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £438
% change year-on-year +5.56% +2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £19.93 £19.93
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.06 £22.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -8.57% -1.87%
75th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £30.56
90th Percentile - - £32.78
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -20.83% -8.57% +0.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

EIGRP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing EIGRP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

EIGRP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

EIGRP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing EIGRP.

EIGRP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

EIGRP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing EIGRP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

EIGRP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

EIGRP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing EIGRP.

EIGRP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

EIGRP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Akamai
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (5.56%) Datadog
1 1 (5.56%) GitHub
1 1 (5.56%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) BGP
1 18 (100.00%) OSPF
2 11 (61.11%) Firewall
2 11 (61.11%) WAN
3 9 (50.00%) IPsec
4 7 (38.89%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (33.33%) HSRP
5 6 (33.33%) LAN
5 6 (33.33%) MPLS
5 6 (33.33%) Network Security
5 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
6 5 (27.78%) SD-WAN
7 4 (22.22%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (22.22%) DHCP
7 4 (22.22%) VPN
7 4 (22.22%) VXLAN
7 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (16.67%) DNS
9 2 (11.11%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Military
5 1 (5.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IP Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (5.56%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
2 1 (5.56%) SCADA
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) Network Design
3 3 (16.67%) Network Management
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Network Planning
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.56%) Logistics
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Process Management
5 1 (5.56%) Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (5.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (27.78%) CCNP
4 2 (11.11%) CCIE
5 1 (5.56%) BC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.56%) CCDP
5 1 (5.56%) CCIP
5 1 (5.56%) CCNA
5 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
1 1 (5.56%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Cisco
2 9 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 8 (44.44%) CheckPoint
4 4 (22.22%) Aruba
4 4 (22.22%) Juniper
4 4 (22.22%) SolarWinds
5 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (11.11%) Arista
6 2 (11.11%) BMC
6 2 (11.11%) Huawei
6 2 (11.11%) Remedy
7 1 (5.56%) ADVA
7 1 (5.56%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (5.56%) F5
7 1 (5.56%) Zscaler