OSPF Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 318 340
Rank change year-on-year +24 +22 -9
Contract jobs citing OSPF 91 139 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.59% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.73% 3.97% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 88 99
10th Percentile £313 £346 £230
25th Percentile £353 £404 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £515 £525 £498
90th Percentile £575 £606 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £19.08 £28.90 -
25th Percentile £19.94 £60.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.75 £62.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.92% +138.46% +22.35%
75th Percentile £23.44 £80.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £24.23 £80.40 £53.55
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £78.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -68.59% +191.59% +25.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,339 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.27% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £343 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 323 238
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +2 39 £450 -10.00% 15
North of England +38 33 £440 +17.33% 14
North West +33 30 £458 +22.00% 7
Midlands +31 7 £575 +8.24% 5
South West -4 6 £488 +0.52% 7
West Midlands +23 4 - - 3
East of England +4 4 £375 +7.14% 4
North East - 3 £345 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 2
Scotland +20 2 £500 +1.01% 10
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UK

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.20%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.78%) Azure
2 14 (15.38%) AWS
3 5 (5.49%) GCP
4 2 (2.20%) GitHub
4 2 (2.20%) IaaS
4 2 (2.20%) PaaS
4 2 (2.20%) SaaS
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 75 (82.42%) BGP
2 49 (53.85%) EIGRP
3 47 (51.65%) Firewall
4 37 (40.66%) VPN
5 28 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
6 25 (27.47%) IPsec
7 24 (26.37%) WAN
8 22 (24.18%) Cisco Firepower
8 22 (24.18%) DMVPN
9 21 (23.08%) LAN
10 18 (19.78%) HSRP
10 18 (19.78%) MPLS
10 18 (19.78%) Spanning Tree
11 17 (18.68%) Cisco ISE
11 17 (18.68%) TCP/IP
12 16 (17.58%) SNMP
13 15 (16.48%) VLAN
13 15 (16.48%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (15.38%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) JIRA
1 2 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.40%) Finance
Job Titles
1 61 (67.03%) Network Engineer
2 17 (18.68%) Network Specialist
3 13 (14.29%) Senior
3 13 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Architect
6 6 (6.59%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Network Operations Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Network Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Lead
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) Network Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.19%) Jinja
2 4 (4.40%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.10%) CMDB
3 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.10%) IoT
3 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.10%) PKI
3 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.09%) Linux
2 9 (9.89%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.67%) Network Design
2 20 (21.98%) ITIL
3 19 (20.88%) Change Management
4 17 (18.68%) Network Management
4 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.38%) DevOps
6 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (14.29%) ITSM
7 8 (8.79%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (7.69%) Computer Science
8 7 (7.69%) Customer Service
9 6 (6.59%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.59%) Network Monitoring
10 5 (5.49%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (5.49%) High Availability
10 5 (5.49%) Roadmaps
11 4 (4.40%) Prototyping
11 4 (4.40%) Technology Roadmap
12 3 (3.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 3 (3.30%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.68%) Python
2 12 (13.19%) Perl
2 12 (13.19%) Tcl
3 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.20%) Bash
Qualifications
1 58 (63.74%) Security Cleared
2 44 (48.35%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (37.36%) CCNA
4 32 (35.16%) SC Cleared
5 31 (34.07%) CCNP
6 23 (25.27%) DV Cleared
7 9 (9.89%) JNCIA
8 7 (7.69%) Degree
8 7 (7.69%) JNCIS
9 4 (4.40%) CCIE
9 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (4.40%) VCAP
10 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.20%) BC Cleared
10 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.20%) CCDP
11 1 (1.10%) CCIP
11 1 (1.10%) GIAC
11 1 (1.10%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) HIPAA
1 3 (3.30%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.20%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Firmware
2 9 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.20%) Docker
4 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (29.67%) FortiGate
2 14 (15.38%) Ansible
3 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.30%) Puppet
3 3 (3.30%) Terraform
4 1 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.10%) Observium
4 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 68 (74.73%) Cisco
2 41 (45.05%) Juniper
3 29 (31.87%) Fortinet
4 24 (26.37%) Palo Alto
5 21 (23.08%) SolarWinds
6 14 (15.38%) F5
7 13 (14.29%) Citrix
8 10 (10.99%) VMware
9 4 (4.40%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (3.30%) Zscaler
11 2 (2.20%) ADVA
11 2 (2.20%) Forcepoint
11 2 (2.20%) Splunk
12 1 (1.10%) Alcatel-Lucent
12 1 (1.10%) Barracuda Networks
12 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.10%) Nokia
12 1 (1.10%) Nokia Networks
12 1 (1.10%) Oracle
12 1 (1.10%) WatchGuard