OSPF Contracts in England

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 443 517
Rank change year-on-year +103 +74 -47
Contract jobs citing OSPF 202 224 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.04% 3.63% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 132 175
10th Percentile £317 £363 £312
25th Percentile £366 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £548 £599 £538
90th Percentile £742 £650 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £20.88 £31.63 £25.50
25th Percentile £23.50 £53.19 £25.88
Median hourly rate £24.50 £62.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.48% +125.45% +19.57%
75th Percentile £35.25 £80.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £53.13 £80.93 £52.95
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £77.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -68.39% +181.82% +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in England

OSPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OSPF in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OSPF in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +119 106 £488 -11.36% 25
South East +15 44 £450 -10.00% 14
North of England +33 32 £440 -12.00% 12
North West +20 30 £440 -4.86% 6
South West +2 8 £550 +14.58% 8
West Midlands +25 4 - - 3
East of England +18 4 £375 +7.14% 2
Midlands +17 4 - - 6
North East +19 2 £345 -37.27% 2
OSPF
UK

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.79%) Azure
2 41 (20.30%) AWS
3 15 (7.43%) GCP
4 6 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (2.48%) OCI
6 2 (0.99%) GitHub
6 2 (0.99%) IaaS
6 2 (0.99%) PaaS
6 2 (0.99%) SaaS
7 1 (0.50%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.50%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.50%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 181 (89.60%) BGP
2 128 (63.37%) Firewall
3 101 (50.00%) VPN
4 97 (48.02%) WAN
5 91 (45.05%) LAN
6 81 (40.10%) EIGRP
7 74 (36.63%) IPsec
8 65 (32.18%) Cisco ASA
9 61 (30.20%) Wireless
10 60 (29.70%) MPLS
11 44 (21.78%) VLAN
12 43 (21.29%) Cisco Nexus
13 40 (19.80%) HSRP
14 38 (18.81%) Network Security
15 35 (17.33%) TCP/IP
16 34 (16.83%) DNS
17 32 (15.84%) SD-WAN
18 30 (14.85%) Wi-Fi
19 28 (13.86%) DHCP
19 28 (13.86%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 8 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (2.48%) Git
3 2 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 33 (16.34%) Finance
2 28 (13.86%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.93%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.97%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (1.49%) Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 134 (66.34%) Network Engineer
2 37 (18.32%) Network Specialist
3 28 (13.86%) Senior
4 23 (11.39%) Senior Network Engineer
5 18 (8.91%) Cisco Engineer
5 18 (8.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 11 (5.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 9 (4.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (4.46%) Architect
7 9 (4.46%) Network Architect
8 8 (3.96%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 8 (3.96%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (3.96%) Lead
9 7 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) Network Security Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) Security Engineer
10 6 (2.97%) Support Engineer
10 6 (2.97%) WAN Engineer
11 5 (2.48%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.48%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.93%) Jinja
2 12 (5.94%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.99%) JSON
3 2 (0.99%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.99%) RESTful
3 2 (0.99%) XML
3 2 (0.99%) YANG
4 1 (0.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.29%) Data Centre
2 22 (10.89%) PKI
3 11 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.47%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.97%) CCTV
6 5 (2.48%) Clustering
7 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.99%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.91%) Linux
2 17 (8.42%) Windows
3 7 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.78%) Change Management
2 41 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (19.80%) Network Design
4 30 (14.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (13.86%) ITIL
6 18 (8.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (8.91%) ITSM
6 18 (8.91%) Migration
6 18 (8.91%) Network Architecture
6 18 (8.91%) Network Management
7 16 (7.92%) Agile
7 16 (7.92%) High Availability
7 16 (7.92%) Threat Management
8 14 (6.93%) DevOps
9 12 (5.94%) Computer Science
10 11 (5.45%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (5.45%) Kalman Filter
10 11 (5.45%) Load Balancing
11 10 (4.95%) Mentoring
11 10 (4.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.33%) Python
2 17 (8.42%) Perl
3 12 (5.94%) Tcl
4 3 (1.49%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.49%) SQL
5 2 (0.99%) Bash
6 1 (0.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 88 (43.56%) Cisco Certification
2 80 (39.60%) Security Cleared
3 72 (35.64%) CCNP
4 48 (23.76%) SC Cleared
5 46 (22.77%) CCNA
6 26 (12.87%) DV Cleared
7 20 (9.90%) Degree
8 17 (8.42%) CCIE
9 12 (5.94%) CCDP
10 9 (4.46%) JNCIS
11 8 (3.96%) AWS Certification
11 8 (3.96%) JNCIA
12 5 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.48%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.98%) BC Cleared
13 4 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.49%) CCIP
14 3 (1.49%) VCAP
15 2 (0.99%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.97%) SLA
2 4 (1.98%) QA
3 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.99%) NCSC
4 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (9.41%) Firmware
2 10 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.96%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.47%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.49%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.99%) Docker
6 2 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (19.31%) FortiGate
2 22 (10.89%) Ansible
3 11 (5.45%) Terraform
4 7 (3.47%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (1.98%) Puppet
6 3 (1.49%) Kibana
6 3 (1.49%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.99%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.99%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.50%) CASB
Vendors
1 165 (81.68%) Cisco
2 79 (39.11%) Juniper
3 78 (38.61%) Palo Alto
4 61 (30.20%) Fortinet
5 47 (23.27%) F5
6 29 (14.36%) SolarWinds
7 19 (9.41%) CheckPoint
8 14 (6.93%) Infoblox
9 13 (6.44%) Citrix
10 12 (5.94%) Arista
10 12 (5.94%) VMware
11 11 (5.45%) Extreme Networks
12 10 (4.95%) Aruba
12 10 (4.95%) Zscaler
13 9 (4.46%) Meraki
13 9 (4.46%) Microsoft
14 6 (2.97%) Google
14 6 (2.97%) Huawei
14 6 (2.97%) Nokia
15 5 (2.48%) Splunk