VRRP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring VRRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VRRP 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 301 342 466
Rank change year-on-year +41 +124 +151
Contract jobs citing VRRP 3 3 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.020% 0.043%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £493 £323 -
25th Percentile £520 £333 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £350 £363
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -3.45% -27.50%
75th Percentile £601 £538 £411
90th Percentile £604 £650 £472
UK median daily rate £584 £600 £390
% change year-on-year -2.71% +53.85% -25.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

VRRP 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%

VRRP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VRRP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VRRP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VRRP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VRRP
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 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) HSRP
1 2 (66.67%) IPsec
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) IGMP
2 1 (33.33%) Multicast
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Unicast
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Direct Market Access
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Logistics
1 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Smart Order Routing
1 1 (33.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler
14 VRRP jobs Nationwide