Hybrid/Remote EIGRP Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring EIGRP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 298 377
Rank change year-on-year -19 +79 +178
Contract jobs citing EIGRP 6 32 27
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.060% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 2.44% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 16
10th Percentile £154 £363 £391
25th Percentile £296 £381 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £470 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.23% -23.27% +11.36%
75th Percentile £447 £581 £745
90th Percentile £464 £625 -
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £20.30
25th Percentile - - £23.00
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +52.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile - - £28.64
90th Percentile - - £34.28
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £38.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.32% +52.00% +4.17%

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 1,063 1,314 2,463
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.68% 10.85% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 808 1,620
10th Percentile £293 £320 £305
25th Percentile £400 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £606
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 26 86
10th Percentile £23.58 £35.50 £17.90
25th Percentile £42.06 £37.50 £20.58
Median hourly rate £63.50 £54.28 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.99% +10.78% -13.35%
75th Percentile £65.06 £66.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.03 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.13% -12.67% +35.55%

EIGRP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EIGRP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

EIGRP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

EIGRP
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EIGRP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EIGRP

EIGRP
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EIGRP over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

EIGRP daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

EIGRP
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EIGRP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EIGRP

EIGRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) VLAN
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (50.00%) Wireless
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
4 2 (33.33%) Modbus
4 2 (33.33%) Wireshark
4 2 (33.33%) WLAN
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
5 1 (16.67%) IPv4
5 1 (16.67%) LAN
5 1 (16.67%) SNMP
5 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (33.33%) SCADA
3 1 (16.67%) CMDB
3 1 (16.67%) Life Science
3 1 (16.67%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Network Management
1 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (83.33%) CCNP
3 3 (50.00%) CCNA
4 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (16.67%) CCIE
4 1 (16.67%) CCIE Security
4 1 (16.67%) CCSP
4 1 (16.67%) CISSP
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) JNCIA
4 1 (16.67%) JNCIS
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 3 (50.00%) Meraki
3 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) NetScout
4 1 (16.67%) Remedy
4 1 (16.67%) Ruckus Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) SevOne