OSPF Contracts in the North West

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 133 162
Rank change year-on-year +26 +29 -28
Contract jobs citing OSPF 30 27 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.09% 0.85% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.22% 6.40% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 11
10th Percentile £313 £283 -
25th Percentile £319 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £425 £230
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +84.78% -47.37%
75th Percentile £515 £538 £338
90th Percentile £532 £550 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 365 422 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.21% 13.21% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 299 354
10th Percentile £199 £288 £183
25th Percentile £322 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £651 £575 £585
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile - £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.72 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -63.16%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £89.18 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the North West.

Daily rate trend for OSPF in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cumbria - 14 £514 -
Manchester +15 12 £331 -36.90% 6
Cheshire 0 3 - -
Lancashire -1 1 £440 -12.00% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) IaaS
4 2 (6.67%) PaaS
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (63.33%) BGP
2 15 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 14 (46.67%) Firewall
4 13 (43.33%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (43.33%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (43.33%) Cisco ISE
4 13 (43.33%) HSRP
4 13 (43.33%) IPsec
4 13 (43.33%) NetScaler
4 13 (43.33%) VPN
5 12 (40.00%) SNMP
5 12 (40.00%) Spanning Tree
5 12 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (33.33%) Ethernet
6 10 (33.33%) LAN
6 10 (33.33%) WAN
6 10 (33.33%) Wireless
6 10 (33.33%) Wireless Security
7 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
8 4 (13.33%) MPLS
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (93.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Senior
2 9 (30.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Support
6 1 (3.33%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Remote Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) Jinja
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Change Management
2 13 (43.33%) ITIL
2 13 (43.33%) Network Management
2 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (40.00%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (40.00%) ITSM
4 8 (26.67%) Customer Service
5 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Perl
1 12 (40.00%) Python
1 12 (40.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 24 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 24 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (73.33%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (63.33%) CCNA
4 15 (50.00%) CCNP
5 3 (10.00%) CCIE
5 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (10.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Firmware
2 7 (23.33%) Hyper-V
2 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) SolarWinds
2 14 (46.67%) Cisco
3 13 (43.33%) Citrix
3 13 (43.33%) Palo Alto
4 7 (23.33%) VMware
5 3 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (3.33%) Ciena
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.33%) WatchGuard