Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VRRP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VRRP 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 673 849 966
Rank change year-on-year +176 +117 +241
Permanent jobs citing VRRP 11 36 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.037% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11 27 21
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,950 £48,750
25th Percentile £40,625 £58,641 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +7.14% +43.59%
75th Percentile £63,125 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £94,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,250 £61,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.17% +23.00% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

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% -

VRRP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VRRP 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 +167 11 £50,000 -33.33% 8
UK excluding London +198 6 £47,250 -23.17% 3
London +89 5 £50,000 -41.18% 5
Midlands +55 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands +45 3 £42,500 -
East of England - 2 £58,500 - 2
Work from Home +163 1 £76,000 -10.59% 4
North of England +82 1 £76,000 +63.44%
North East - 1 £76,000 -

VRRP
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 (9.09%) AutoCAD
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
1 7 (63.64%) IPsec
1 7 (63.64%) OSPF
2 6 (54.55%) BGP
2 6 (54.55%) VPN
3 5 (45.45%) HSRP
4 4 (36.36%) EIGRP
4 4 (36.36%) SNMP
4 4 (36.36%) VLAN
4 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (27.27%) LAN
5 3 (27.27%) SD-WAN
5 3 (27.27%) WAN
5 3 (27.27%) Wireless
6 2 (18.18%) DHCP
6 2 (18.18%) IGMP
6 2 (18.18%) MPLS
7 1 (9.09%) 802.11
7 1 (9.09%) DNS
7 1 (9.09%) SS7
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Aviation
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Network Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Professional Services Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Junior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) IPTV
2 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Network Management
2 4 (36.36%) High-Frequency Trading
2 4 (36.36%) Low Latency
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Network Design
3 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
5 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (9.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (9.09%) Server Management
5 1 (9.09%) Supplier Management
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (45.45%) CCNA
3 3 (27.27%) CCNP
4 1 (9.09%) CCIE
4 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Meraki
2 6 (54.55%) Cisco
3 5 (45.45%) Fortinet
4 4 (36.36%) Arista
4 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 4 (36.36%) SolarWinds
4 4 (36.36%) VMware
5 3 (27.27%) Bloomberg
5 3 (27.27%) Refinitiv
5 3 (27.27%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (18.18%) Aruba
6 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
6 2 (18.18%) WatchGuard
7 1 (9.09%) Avaya
7 1 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (9.09%) F5
7 1 (9.09%) HP
7 1 (9.09%) Meru Networks
7 1 (9.09%) Riverbed