OSPF Contracts in Kent

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 31 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 1 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 0.50% 1.37% 3.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.57% 11.54% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - £405 £313
25th Percentile £331 £406 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +17.86% -
75th Percentile £394 £428 £438
90th Percentile - £434 £438
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +0.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 26 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 14.00% 11.87% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 61
10th Percentile £203 £311 £154
25th Percentile £294 £345 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £463 £313
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +48.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £496 £758 £438
90th Percentile £538 £794 £588
South East median daily rate £490 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +0.51% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.71
25th Percentile £50.75 - £17.61
Median hourly rate £51.50 £79.19 £19.11
Median % change year-on-year -34.97% +314.50% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £20.60
90th Percentile - - £21.50
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £54.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +5.23% +153.49% -49.41%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Kent

OSPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in Kent

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Kent region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
West Malling -1 1 £363 -12.12%
OSPF
South East

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Forcepoint
1 1 (100.00%) VMware