OSPF Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 64 71
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +26
Contract jobs citing OSPF 2 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.25% 0.40% 0.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.35% 3.09% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £433 - £363
25th Percentile £445 £535 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.82% +10.80%
75th Percentile £508 £565 £588
90th Percentile £514 - £633
South West median daily rate £506 £420 £550
% change year-on-year +20.54% -23.64% +18.92%

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 46 97 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 5.72% 12.99% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 50 91
10th Percentile £269 £327 £250
25th Percentile £335 £413 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -21.26% +22.34%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £675
90th Percentile £615 £663 £711
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 16
10th Percentile - £11.75 £58.75
25th Percentile £15.62 £64.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £16.71 £68.75 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year -75.70% -6.78% +13.46%
75th Percentile £41.39 £75.00 £77.75
90th Percentile £55.56 - £88.50
South West median hourly rate £56.50 £67.02 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.70% +18.64% -13.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OSPF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

OSPF job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing OSPF

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing OSPF

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) French Language
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) VMware