Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for HSRP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited HSRP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 905 1231
Rank change year-on-year +44 +326 -361
Permanent jobs citing HSRP 46 42 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.044% 0.018%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.34% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 32 37 23
10th Percentile £42,725 £42,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,188 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £77,500 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% -4.76%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,607 15,377 22,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.96% 16.25% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,414 7,683 11,818
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%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HSRP.

Salary trend for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HSRP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for HSRP in the UK

HSRP
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HSRP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +44 44 £53,000 -8.03% 12
UK excluding London -18 33 £52,500 -3.67% 8
London +109 13 £75,000 +3.45% 4
South East -8 12 £53,000 -2.75% 5
Work from Home +42 10 £75,000 - 5
Midlands - 9 - -
West Midlands - 9 - -
North of England - 5 £47,500 - 3
North West - 5 £47,500 - 3
South West -26 4 £37,500 -16.67%
Scotland - 2 £75,000 -
East of England - 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.35%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) IaaS
2 7 (15.22%) PaaS
2 7 (15.22%) SaaS
3 4 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.35%) Mimecast
4 2 (4.35%) OpenDNS
5 1 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 38 (82.61%) BGP
1 38 (82.61%) OSPF
2 36 (78.26%) Firewall
3 32 (69.57%) VLAN
4 24 (52.17%) Spanning Tree
4 24 (52.17%) VPN
5 20 (43.48%) IPsec
6 19 (41.30%) VRRP
7 16 (34.78%) Cisco ASA
7 16 (34.78%) Cisco Firepower
7 16 (34.78%) WAN
8 14 (30.43%) SD-WAN
9 13 (28.26%) Cisco ISE
9 13 (28.26%) MPLS
10 12 (26.09%) EIGRP
10 12 (26.09%) TCP/IP
10 12 (26.09%) VoIP
11 11 (23.91%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (23.91%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (23.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Retail
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Finance
6 2 (4.35%) Law
6 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Network Engineer
2 15 (32.61%) Senior
3 11 (23.91%) 3rd Line Support
4 9 (19.57%) Network Support
4 9 (19.57%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Analyst
5 7 (15.22%) Network Analyst
6 6 (13.04%) Network Operations Analyst
6 6 (13.04%) Operations Analyst
6 6 (13.04%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (13.04%) Senior Network Analyst
6 6 (13.04%) Senior Operations Analyst
7 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Lead
9 3 (6.52%) Network Support Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.35%) LAMP
2 2 (4.35%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) FMCG
2 6 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.52%) PKI
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.17%) CentOS
3 1 (2.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) Project Delivery
2 8 (17.39%) High Availability
3 7 (15.22%) Business Analysis
3 7 (15.22%) Change Management
3 7 (15.22%) Demand Management
3 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
3 7 (15.22%) IT Strategy
3 7 (15.22%) Network Architecture
3 7 (15.22%) Network Virtualisation
3 7 (15.22%) Release Management
3 7 (15.22%) Technology Strategy
4 5 (10.87%) Asset Management
4 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (6.52%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (6.52%) Server Management
6 3 (6.52%) Storage Management
6 3 (6.52%) Web Filtering
7 2 (4.35%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 26 (56.52%) CCNP
1 26 (56.52%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
3 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
4 10 (21.74%) CCIE
5 8 (17.39%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 7 (15.22%) CCDP
6 7 (15.22%) Degree
7 4 (8.70%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) GDPR
1 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Firmware
2 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (4.35%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.35%) pfSense
3 2 (4.35%) Terminal Services
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.35%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (80.43%) Cisco
2 13 (28.26%) Juniper
3 10 (21.74%) F5
4 7 (15.22%) CheckPoint
4 7 (15.22%) Ekahau
4 7 (15.22%) Meraki
5 5 (10.87%) Citrix
6 4 (8.70%) Fortinet
6 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
7 3 (6.52%) Aruba
7 3 (6.52%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.35%) Acronis
8 2 (4.35%) HP
8 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.35%) SonicWALL
8 2 (4.35%) Sophos
8 2 (4.35%) Veeam
8 2 (4.35%) Veritas
9 1 (2.17%) EMC
9 1 (2.17%) Red Hat