OSPF Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring OSPF skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 66 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% 0.51% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.69% 3.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - -
75th Percentile £444 £591 -
90th Percentile - £596 -
England median daily rate £480 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -3.03% -5.71% +2.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 59 104 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.52% 13.27% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 51 76
10th Percentile £146 £183 £198
25th Percentile £171 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £490 £453
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +8.23% +6.52%
75th Percentile £492 £600 £565
90th Percentile £545 £659 £700
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 8
10th Percentile £13.81 - £10.76
25th Percentile £17.32 £12.75 £17.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £13.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -33.88% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £23.21 £54.00
90th Percentile - £24.52 -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OSPF

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OSPF

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 £438 - 1
OSPF
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco