Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for HSRP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited HSRP over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 859 919 1201
Rank change year-on-year +60 +282 -337
Permanent jobs citing HSRP 42 40 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.039% 0.015%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.25% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30 36 18
10th Percentile £44,525 £44,875 £47,750
25th Percentile £48,375 £53,313 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +0.21% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £77,500 £103,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,750 £54,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year -3.21% +6.34% +0.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,533 15,817 21,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 15.61% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,429 8,044 11,722
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -3.23% +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 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Top 11 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 12 May 2024. 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 +89 39 £53,000 -7.02% 14
UK excluding London +7 31 £52,750 -3.21% 11
London +121 11 £75,000 +3.45% 4
South East +6 11 £53,000 -2.75% 3
Work from Home +83 10 £75,000 +3.45% 7
West Midlands +32 9 - -
Midlands +4 9 - - 2
South West -21 4 £37,500 -21.05% 4
North of England - 4 £47,000 - 1
North West - 4 £47,000 - 1
Scotland - 3 £75,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) AWS
2 4 (9.52%) IaaS
2 4 (9.52%) PaaS
2 4 (9.52%) SaaS
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.76%) Mimecast
3 2 (4.76%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (83.33%) OSPF
2 34 (80.95%) BGP
3 33 (78.57%) VLAN
4 32 (76.19%) Firewall
5 24 (57.14%) Spanning Tree
6 22 (52.38%) VPN
7 21 (50.00%) VRRP
8 18 (42.86%) IPsec
9 15 (35.71%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (35.71%) Cisco Firepower
10 14 (33.33%) MPLS
11 13 (30.95%) WAN
12 12 (28.57%) TCP/IP
12 12 (28.57%) VoIP
13 11 (26.19%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (26.19%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (26.19%) SD-WAN
13 11 (26.19%) Wireless
14 10 (23.81%) EIGRP
15 9 (21.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Retail
3 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Law
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Network Engineer
2 16 (38.10%) Senior
3 11 (26.19%) 3rd Line Support
4 10 (23.81%) Senior Network Engineer
5 9 (21.43%) Network Support
6 7 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (16.67%) Analyst
6 7 (16.67%) Network Analyst
7 6 (14.29%) Network Operations Analyst
7 6 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
7 6 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (14.29%) Senior Network Analyst
7 6 (14.29%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 5 (11.90%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 5 (11.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (11.90%) Support Engineer
9 4 (9.52%) Lead
10 3 (7.14%) Network Support Engineer
11 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 2 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.76%) LAMP
2 2 (4.76%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 7 (16.67%) FMCG
2 2 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.38%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.38%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Project Delivery
2 7 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 7 (16.67%) Change Management
2 7 (16.67%) Demand Management
2 7 (16.67%) High Availability
2 7 (16.67%) Network Architecture
2 7 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 7 (16.67%) Release Management
3 5 (11.90%) Asset Management
3 5 (11.90%) Mentoring
4 4 (9.52%) DevSecOps
4 4 (9.52%) IT Strategy
4 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (9.52%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (7.14%) Web Filtering
6 2 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (4.76%) Migration
6 2 (4.76%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 28 (66.67%) CCNP
1 28 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 11 (26.19%) CCIE
5 8 (19.05%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 7 (16.67%) CCDP
7 4 (9.52%) CCNA
7 4 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Firmware
2 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (4.76%) Docker
3 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.76%) pfSense
3 2 (4.76%) Terminal Services
3 2 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.76%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.38%) Puppet
3 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (78.57%) Cisco
2 13 (30.95%) Juniper
3 10 (23.81%) F5
4 7 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 7 (16.67%) Ekahau
5 5 (11.90%) Fortinet
6 4 (9.52%) Meraki
6 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
7 3 (7.14%) Aruba
7 3 (7.14%) Citrix
8 2 (4.76%) Acronis
8 2 (4.76%) HP
8 2 (4.76%) SonicWALL
8 2 (4.76%) Sophos
8 2 (4.76%) Veeam
8 2 (4.76%) Veritas
9 1 (2.38%) Arista
9 1 (2.38%) Huawei
9 1 (2.38%) Mitel
9 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto