Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 871 919 1246
Rank change year-on-year +48 +327 -344
Permanent jobs citing VRRP 34 27 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.028% 0.011%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.25% 0.18% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £45,800 £47,750 £30,875
25th Percentile £58,641 £60,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +22.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £91,750 £109,000 £66,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +29.41% +1.19%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,603 15,428 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 16.28% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,727 11,819
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,419 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

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 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VRRP in the UK

VRRP
Top 10 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 2 June 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 +77 32 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Work from Home +55 20 £80,000 +10.34% 3
London +109 18 £85,000 +13.33% 2
UK excluding London -25 16 £60,000 +9.09% 3
West Midlands - 9 - -
Midlands - 9 - -
North of England +35 3 £46,500 -2.11%
North West -10 3 £46,500 -2.11%
East of England -6 2 £63,750 +10.87%
Scotland - 2 £75,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
2 2 (5.88%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
2 2 (5.88%) Mimecast
2 2 (5.88%) OpenDNS
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (73.53%) BGP
1 25 (73.53%) VLAN
2 23 (67.65%) Firewall
3 21 (61.76%) OSPF
4 20 (58.82%) MPLS
5 19 (55.88%) HSRP
6 16 (47.06%) LAN
6 16 (47.06%) WAN
7 15 (44.12%) VoIP
8 14 (41.18%) Wireless
9 13 (38.24%) TCP/IP
10 12 (35.29%) Spanning Tree
11 10 (29.41%) EIGRP
12 9 (26.47%) DHCP
12 9 (26.47%) SD-WAN
13 8 (23.53%) DNS
13 8 (23.53%) IPsec
13 8 (23.53%) SNMP
14 7 (20.59%) VPLS
14 7 (20.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Retail
3 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.71%) Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Finance
6 2 (5.88%) Law
6 2 (5.88%) Legal
6 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (61.76%) Senior
2 11 (32.35%) Network Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Analyst
4 7 (20.59%) Consultant
4 7 (20.59%) Network Analyst
4 7 (20.59%) Senior Consultant
4 7 (20.59%) Solutions Consultant
5 6 (17.65%) Network Operations Analyst
5 6 (17.65%) Operations Analyst
5 6 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (17.65%) Senior Network Analyst
5 6 (17.65%) Senior Operations Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Technical Support
7 3 (8.82%) Technical Support Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) CSS
2 2 (5.88%) LAMP
2 2 (5.88%) V-Ray
3 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) FMCG
2 6 (17.65%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Smart City
4 2 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
1 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) Business Analysis
1 7 (20.59%) Change Management
1 7 (20.59%) Demand Management
1 7 (20.59%) High Availability
1 7 (20.59%) Network Architecture
1 7 (20.59%) Network Virtualisation
1 7 (20.59%) Presales
1 7 (20.59%) Project Delivery
1 7 (20.59%) Release Management
2 6 (17.65%) Asset Management
2 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
2 6 (17.65%) Zero Trust
3 4 (11.76%) Coaching
3 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
3 4 (11.76%) Migration
4 3 (8.82%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.82%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (8.82%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (41.18%) CCNP
3 10 (29.41%) CCIE
4 7 (20.59%) CCDP
4 7 (20.59%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 7 (20.59%) CCNA
4 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
5 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
6 3 (8.82%) Degree
6 3 (8.82%) MCT
7 1 (2.94%) MCSA
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Firmware
2 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
3 2 (5.88%) pfSense
3 2 (5.88%) Terminal Services
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 22 (64.71%) Cisco
2 7 (20.59%) Ekahau
3 6 (17.65%) Meraki
4 5 (14.71%) CheckPoint
5 3 (8.82%) Aruba
5 3 (8.82%) Fortinet
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.82%) Veeam
6 2 (5.88%) Acronis
6 2 (5.88%) Citrix
6 2 (5.88%) HP
6 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.88%) SonicWALL
6 2 (5.88%) Sophos
6 2 (5.88%) Veritas
7 1 (2.94%) Dell