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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 719 864 946
Rank change year-on-year +145 +82 +282
Permanent jobs citing VRRP 11 35 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.035% 0.024%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.26% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11 26 24
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,875 £47,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £60,856 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +7.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £56,875 £85,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £67,500 £94,375 £119,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £61,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.88% +23.00% +17.65%

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 9,375 13,481 15,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.79% 13.53% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,367 9,406 7,898
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £43,742 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.98% -2.80% -4.26%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +118 11 £45,000 -40.00% 11
London +98 7 £45,000 -47.06% 5
UK excluding London +169 4 £58,500 -4.88% 8
East of England - 2 £58,500 - 1
Work from Home +113 1 £76,000 -10.59% 4
Midlands +53 1 £31,000 - 1
West Midlands +48 1 £31,000 - 1
North of England +41 1 £76,000 +63.44% 2
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 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) IPsec
1 9 (81.82%) OSPF
1 9 (81.82%) VPN
2 8 (72.73%) BGP
2 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 8 (72.73%) HSRP
3 7 (63.64%) EIGRP
3 7 (63.64%) SNMP
3 7 (63.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (18.18%) DHCP
4 2 (18.18%) LAN
4 2 (18.18%) MPLS
4 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
4 2 (18.18%) VLAN
4 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 2 (18.18%) Wireless
5 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
5 1 (9.09%) Multicast
5 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 2 (18.18%) Aviation
5 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Junior
2 1 (9.09%) Junior Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) 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 8 (72.73%) Network Management
2 7 (63.64%) High-Frequency Trading
2 7 (63.64%) Low Latency
3 6 (54.55%) Business Analysis
3 6 (54.55%) Risk Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Network Design
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 1 (9.09%) Change Management
6 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
6 1 (9.09%) Logistics
6 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
6 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (9.09%) Server Management
6 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) CCNA
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco
1 8 (72.73%) Fortinet
2 7 (63.64%) Arista
2 7 (63.64%) CheckPoint
2 7 (63.64%) Meraki
2 7 (63.64%) SolarWinds
3 6 (54.55%) Bloomberg
3 6 (54.55%) Refinitiv
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 1 (9.09%) Aruba
5 1 (9.09%) Avaya
5 1 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (9.09%) F5
5 1 (9.09%) HP
5 1 (9.09%) Meru Networks
5 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (9.09%) Ubiquiti