Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VRRP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VRRP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 677 838
Rank change year-on-year +117 +161 -157
Contract jobs citing VRRP 30 26 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.044% 0.025%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.54% 0.35% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 18
10th Percentile £391 £331 £356
25th Percentile £463 £353 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £390 £525
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -25.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £448 £568
90th Percentile - £499 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £388 £530
% change year-on-year +3.23% -26.89% -2.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,561 7,346 9,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 12.40% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 4,780 6,318
10th Percentile £205 £242 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 476 359
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.90 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VRRP.

Daily rate trend for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VRRP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VRRP.

Hourly rate trend for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VRRP within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 30 £600 +53.85% 4
London +115 27 £600 +53.85% 3
UK excluding London +38 3 £400 +3.23% 1
South East +17 3 £400 -7.25%
Work from Home +116 2 £525 +44.83%

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (100.00%) BGP
2 28 (93.33%) HSRP
3 22 (73.33%) MPLS
4 20 (66.67%) SNMP
4 20 (66.67%) VPLS
5 18 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (56.67%) IPv4
6 17 (56.67%) RSVP
7 11 (36.67%) Firewall
8 10 (33.33%) OSPF
9 9 (30.00%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (30.00%) IOS XR
10 8 (26.67%) GLBP
11 7 (23.33%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (23.33%) EIGRP
12 6 (20.00%) VLAN
13 5 (16.67%) LAN
13 5 (16.67%) Network Security
13 5 (16.67%) VPN
13 5 (16.67%) VXLAN
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) IP Expert
2 12 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Cisco Expert
4 3 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Switch Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) LAN Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (56.67%) Jinja
1 17 (56.67%) JSON
1 17 (56.67%) NETCONF
1 17 (56.67%) XML
1 17 (56.67%) YANG
2 1 (3.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 9 (30.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) DevOps
1 17 (56.67%) Test Planning
2 6 (20.00%) Network Design
3 4 (13.33%) Agile
3 4 (13.33%) High Availability
3 4 (13.33%) Network Architecture
4 3 (10.00%) ITIL
4 3 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (10.00%) Scrum
4 3 (10.00%) Supplier Management
5 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Task Automation
6 1 (3.33%) Customer Service
6 1 (3.33%) Decision-Making
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (3.33%) Load Balancing
6 1 (3.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 1 (3.33%) Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (3.33%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) CCIE
1 9 (30.00%) CCIE Service Provider
1 9 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (63.33%) Cisco
2 17 (56.67%) Nokia
3 11 (36.67%) Juniper
4 9 (30.00%) Fortinet
5 6 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 3 (10.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (6.67%) F5
8 1 (3.33%) Arista
8 1 (3.33%) Aruba
8 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (3.33%) Extreme Networks