Bath OSPF Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) skills within the Bath region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Cambridgeshire Cheltenham City of London Coventry East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£393	£344
% change on same period last year	+14.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.07	£36.23
% change on same period last year	+7.84 %
Communications & Networking Bath
Matching contract IT job ads	19	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.010 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£486	£390
Average daily rate	£539	£411
% change on same period last year	+31.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£593	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.30	-
Average hourly rate	£17.64	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.98	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.77	£28.62
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
OSPF Somerset

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.