HSRP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring HSRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HSRP 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 296 334 468
Rank change year-on-year +38 +134 +143
Contract jobs citing HSRP 8 11 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.072% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.77% 0.68% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 9
10th Percentile - £399 £469
25th Percentile £400 £452 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +13.51%
75th Percentile £591 £515 £700
90th Percentile £600 £578 -
UK median daily rate £575 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +10.58% +4.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

HSRP 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%

HSRP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

HSRP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

HSRP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing HSRP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) BGP
1 8 (100.00%) IPsec
1 8 (100.00%) OSPF
2 7 (87.50%) Firewall
3 6 (75.00%) EIGRP
4 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) Network Security
5 3 (37.50%) SSL
5 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
5 3 (37.50%) VPN
5 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (25.00%) MPLS
6 2 (25.00%) SNMP
6 2 (25.00%) VRRP
7 1 (12.50%) DHCP
7 1 (12.50%) IGMP
7 1 (12.50%) VLAN
7 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Network Management
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Kanban
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Logistics
4 1 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 1 (12.50%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) Palo Alto
3 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
4 3 (37.50%) F5
4 3 (37.50%) SolarWinds
5 1 (12.50%) Arista
5 1 (12.50%) Aruba
5 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (12.50%) Juniper
5 1 (12.50%) Zscaler