Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring HSRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited HSRP over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 843 951
Rank change year-on-year +179 +108 +246
Permanent jobs citing HSRP 20 42 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.043% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 20 30 32
10th Percentile £44,750 £44,525 £47,263
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,500 £53,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £53,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -15.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £65,272 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £52,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year +7.14% +0.48% +4.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

HSRP 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

HSRP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HSRP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HSRP.

Salary trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HSRP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HSRP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England +170 20 £56,250 +6.13% 14
UK excluding London +187 12 £56,250 +7.14% 11
London +103 8 £57,072 -23.90% 3
Work from Home +177 6 £61,644 -17.81% 11
North of England +85 5 £55,000 +17.02% 2
North West +34 5 £55,000 +17.02% 2
South East +104 4 £53,750 +1.42% 5
South West +114 2 £61,644 +105.48% 2
East of England - 1 £65,000 - 2

HSRP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) BGP
2 19 (95.00%) Firewall
3 14 (70.00%) IPsec
3 14 (70.00%) OSPF
4 10 (50.00%) VLAN
5 9 (45.00%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (45.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (45.00%) EIGRP
5 9 (45.00%) VPN
6 5 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
6 5 (25.00%) VRRP
6 5 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (20.00%) SNMP
8 1 (5.00%) 802.11
8 1 (5.00%) MPLS
8 1 (5.00%) SS7
8 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
8 1 (5.00%) Wireless
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Domain Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Junior
6 1 (5.00%) Junior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) IPTV
3 1 (5.00%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Network Design
2 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (20.00%) High-Frequency Trading
3 4 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 4 (20.00%) Network Management
4 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (5.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (5.00%) Change Management
5 1 (5.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.00%) Presales
5 1 (5.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (55.00%) CCNP
4 5 (25.00%) CCNA
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Cisco
2 9 (45.00%) CheckPoint
3 5 (25.00%) F5
3 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 4 (20.00%) Arista
4 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 4 (20.00%) Juniper
4 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (15.00%) Bloomberg
5 3 (15.00%) Meraki
5 3 (15.00%) Refinitiv
6 1 (5.00%) Avaya
6 1 (5.00%) Extreme Networks