OSPF Contracts in the East of England

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for OSPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OSPF over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 127 135
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 -26
Contract jobs citing OSPF 4 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.21% 0.14% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.36% 0.83% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile - - £344
25th Percentile £363 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £388 - £538
90th Percentile - - £551
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
England median hourly rate £24.50 £62.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -60.48% +125.45% +19.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

OSPF 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 advertised in the East of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 295 362 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.56% 17.43% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 199 264
10th Percentile £199 £184 £193
25th Percentile £261 £319 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +25.00%
75th Percentile £494 £661 £500
90th Percentile £575 £700 £600
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 44 49
10th Percentile £14.19 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.98 £51.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.11% +230.65% -15.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £19.50
90th Percentile - £74.28 £42.39
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for OSPF in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Bedfordshire - 4 £375 -
OSPF
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Technical Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) Zscaler