HSRP Job Trends in the West Midlands

Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring HSRP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing HSRP 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.056% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.08% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £61,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -15.52% +19.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 462 400 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.17% 12.40% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 350 317 328
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £28,525
25th Percentile £32,625 £30,750 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £39,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.59% -22.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

HSRP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

HSRP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

HSRP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HSRP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HSRP

HSRP
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HSRP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Birmingham - 4 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £65,000 - 1
HSRP
England

HSRP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) VRRP
1 5 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) EIGRP
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (20.00%) IPv4
3 1 (20.00%) IPv6
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Marketing
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Data Network Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
1 4 (80.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Change Control
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) Inventory Management
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Network Design
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Mellanox
2 1 (20.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (20.00%) VMware