HSRP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for HSRP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HSRP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 460 605
Rank change year-on-year +134 +145 -140
Contract jobs citing HSRP 11 7 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.027% 0.045%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.70% 0.24% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 16
10th Percentile £399 £402 £356
25th Percentile £452 £498 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £675 £463
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +45.95% -7.50%
75th Percentile £515 £700 £530
90th Percentile £578 - £550
UK median daily rate £520 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -0.48% +4.50% +4.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

HSRP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,565 2,953 4,336
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 11.55% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 1,964 2,940
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £704 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 97 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.70 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%

HSRP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing HSRP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

HSRP trend for jobs with a WFH option

HSRP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing HSRP.

HSRP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

HSRP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing HSRP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

HSRP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

HSRP
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) BGP
1 11 (100.00%) OSPF
2 10 (90.91%) Firewall
3 9 (81.82%) EIGRP
4 8 (72.73%) Cisco ISE
4 8 (72.73%) IPsec
4 8 (72.73%) Spanning Tree
5 7 (63.64%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (63.64%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (63.64%) NetScaler
6 6 (54.55%) SNMP
6 6 (54.55%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (18.18%) VLAN
7 2 (18.18%) VRRP
8 1 (9.09%) DMZ
8 1 (9.09%) IGRP
8 1 (9.09%) MPLS
8 1 (9.09%) NX-OS
8 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Jinja
2 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Change Management
1 7 (63.64%) ITIL
1 7 (63.64%) Network Management
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) ITSM
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (9.09%) Network Design
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Two-Factor Authentication
3 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Perl
1 6 (54.55%) Python
1 6 (54.55%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) CCNA
2 7 (63.64%) CCNP
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (72.73%) Palo Alto
3 7 (63.64%) Citrix
3 7 (63.64%) SolarWinds
4 2 (18.18%) Arista
4 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
5 1 (9.09%) Aruba
5 1 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (9.09%) Juniper