VRRP Job Trends in the South West

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring VRRP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 - 245
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing VRRP 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.033% - 0.025%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.45% - 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44,500 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 - £62,500
75th Percentile £53,500 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +5.77% -7.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

VRRP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 672 565 870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.36% 16.25% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 385 384 641
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,565 £60,918
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,925 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,292 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -15.42% -2.25%

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VRRP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

VRRP job vacancy trend in the South West

VRRP
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VRRP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VRRP

VRRP
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VRRP within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire - 1 £49,000 - 1
VRRP
England

VRRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) HSRP
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) NGFW
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) IPv4
3 1 (33.33%) IPv6
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) VPLS
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIS
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Aruba
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto