OSPF Contracts in Bristol

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 82 77
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 +20
Contract jobs citing OSPF 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.48% 0.27% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.53% 1.82% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - - £348
25th Percentile £425 £469 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +21.88% -6.43%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £438
90th Percentile - - £525
South West median daily rate £575 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +17.95% -2.50% -2.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 85 165 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 13.67% 14.75% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 81 73
10th Percentile £235 £260 £221
25th Percentile £250 £430 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 £515 £470
Median % change year-on-year -25.83% +9.57% -0.05%
75th Percentile £475 £638 £613
90th Percentile £606 £675 £690
South West median daily rate £545 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +1.40% +2.38% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 22 63
10th Percentile £22.51 £12.86 -
25th Percentile £29.59 - -
Median hourly rate £41.40 £65.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year -36.32% +563.27% -87.19%
75th Percentile £53.20 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £60.28 £84.30 £69.00
South West median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £9.80
% change year-on-year -68.51% +476.43% -81.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) HSRP
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) VRRP
2 2 (66.67%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) VMware