OSPF Contracts in Berkshire

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring OSPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OSPF over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 87 100
Rank change year-on-year -30 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing OSPF 5 26 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 1.46% 1.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.17% 6.88% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £388 £344
25th Percentile £335 £490 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +22.22% +6.38%
75th Percentile £355 £600 £497
90th Percentile - £613 £656
South East median daily rate £450 £530 £445
% change year-on-year -15.09% +19.10% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £78.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.80% +201.92% +22.35%
75th Percentile £19.50 £80.25 £26.50
90th Percentile - £80.70 -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -69.35% +138.46% +13.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

OSPF falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 427 378 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.81% 21.25% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 193 232
10th Percentile £205 £300 £313
25th Percentile £350 £394 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £464
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% +5.10% +22.85%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £560
90th Percentile - £700 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 7
10th Percentile £60.90 £17.15 -
25th Percentile £77.85 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £73.92 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.32% +334.81% -49.25%
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £21.75
90th Percentile £87.53 £81.11 £42.90
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £22.10
% change year-on-year -4.42% +171.49% -48.00%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Reading -22 4 £345 -38.94%
Newbury +3 1 - - 2
OSPF
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) MPLS
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (80.00%) IPsec
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (40.00%) DMVPN
4 2 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (40.00%) Internet
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (40.00%) Sourcefire
5 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Network Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Communications Security
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Process Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) CCDP
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCIP
3 1 (20.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (20.00%) JNCIS
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Juniper
3 3 (60.00%) Aruba
3 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (40.00%) Blue Coat
4 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (40.00%) F5
4 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (40.00%) McAfee
4 2 (40.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (20.00%) ADVA
5 1 (20.00%) Alcatel-Lucent