HSRP Contracts

Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HSRP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HSRP over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 660 816
Rank change year-on-year +112 +156 -122
Contract jobs citing HSRP 54 35 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.063% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.00% 0.49% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 24 30
10th Percentile £343 £393 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £460 £508
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.36% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £575
90th Percentile £620 £700 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +11.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

HSRP 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 5,412 7,077 9,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 12.74% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,208 4,557 6,456
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 446 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +6.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.76% -13.95% -2.27%

HSRP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HSRP over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HSRP within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +111 49 £515 +9.59% 13
London +105 25 £600 +4.80% 3
UK excluding London +36 22 £475 +5.56% 10
Work from Home +120 16 £508 -15.42% 6
North of England +26 14 £515 +14.44% 5
North West +18 14 £515 +14.44% 5
South East +13 7 £349 -24.95% 4
Midlands +15 1 - -
South West +11 1 £200 -
West Midlands +6 1 - -

HSRP
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 6 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.52%) AWS
1 10 (18.52%) Azure
2 5 (9.26%) OCI
3 2 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 53 (98.15%) BGP
2 42 (77.78%) Firewall
3 40 (74.07%) OSPF
4 36 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
4 36 (66.67%) IPsec
5 32 (59.26%) EIGRP
6 29 (53.70%) SNMP
7 27 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 26 (48.15%) Cisco ISE
9 23 (42.59%) NetScaler
10 22 (40.74%) MPLS
11 21 (38.89%) Spanning Tree
12 17 (31.48%) VRRP
13 16 (29.63%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (27.78%) IPv4
14 15 (27.78%) VLAN
15 13 (24.07%) VPLS
16 11 (20.37%) Ethernet VPN
17 10 (18.52%) RSVP
17 10 (18.52%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
General
1 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
2 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.85%) Finance
3 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (72.22%) Network Engineer
2 17 (31.48%) Senior
3 14 (25.93%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) IP Expert
5 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Cisco Expert
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support
9 2 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Cisco Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Network Support
9 2 (3.70%) Network Support Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (46.30%) Jinja
2 13 (24.07%) JSON
2 13 (24.07%) NETCONF
2 13 (24.07%) XML
2 13 (24.07%) YANG
3 11 (20.37%) 802.1X
4 3 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Data Centre
1 10 (18.52%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (7.41%) PKI
3 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Network Management
2 22 (40.74%) DevOps
3 21 (38.89%) ITSM
4 14 (25.93%) Change Management
4 14 (25.93%) ITIL
5 10 (18.52%) Test Planning
6 6 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (5.56%) Computer Science
8 3 (5.56%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (5.56%) Mentoring
9 2 (3.70%) Network Design
9 2 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (3.70%) Project Delivery
10 1 (1.85%) Customer Service
10 1 (1.85%) Decision-Making
10 1 (1.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 1 (1.85%) Statistics
10 1 (1.85%) Supplier Management
10 1 (1.85%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.89%) Python
2 12 (22.22%) Perl
2 12 (22.22%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 27 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 23 (42.59%) SC Cleared
4 21 (38.89%) CCNP
5 19 (35.19%) CCNA
6 5 (9.26%) AWS Certification
6 5 (9.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Certification
6 5 (9.26%) CCIE
6 5 (9.26%) CCIE Service Provider
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (24.07%) Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Ansible
2 9 (16.67%) Terraform
3 5 (9.26%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.85%) Puppet
4 1 (1.85%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 48 (88.89%) Cisco
2 33 (61.11%) Palo Alto
3 29 (53.70%) SolarWinds
4 23 (42.59%) Citrix
5 11 (20.37%) Juniper
6 10 (18.52%) Nokia
7 9 (16.67%) F5
8 7 (12.96%) CheckPoint
8 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
9 6 (11.11%) Fortinet
10 5 (9.26%) Google
10 5 (9.26%) Infoblox
11 4 (7.41%) Aruba
12 3 (5.56%) Meraki
13 1 (1.85%) Arista
13 1 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (1.85%) Extreme Networks
13 1 (1.85%) SonicWALL