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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 441 522
Rank change year-on-year +76 +81 -45
Contract jobs citing OSPF 180 223 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.46% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.76% 3.77% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 121 170
10th Percentile £313 £363 £312
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £473
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.73% +5.09%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £538
90th Percentile £606 £700 £611
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £473
% change year-on-year -4.52% +5.21% +5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 4
10th Percentile £18.98 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £19.69 £60.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £62.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -65.73% +127.52% -31.45%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.25 £35.63
90th Percentile £23.33 £81.00 £45.30
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £78.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -69.87% +200.00% -34.59%

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 4,784 5,911 7,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.15% 12.27% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 3,864 5,161
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £393 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 424 309
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%

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

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in England

OSPF
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

OSPF
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 16 May 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 +94 88 £488 -13.33% 33
South East +3 38 £450 -10.00% 14
North of England +31 33 £425 +6.25% 19
North West +23 29 £475 +22.58% 13
Midlands +27 6 £575 -6.12% 6
South West -13 6 £488 - 5
East of England +9 4 £375 +7.14% 5
North East - 4 £385 - 2
West Midlands +23 3 - - 3
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 3
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 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (23.33%) Azure
2 41 (22.78%) AWS
3 15 (8.33%) GCP
4 5 (2.78%) OCI
5 4 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.11%) GitHub
6 2 (1.11%) IaaS
6 2 (1.11%) PaaS
6 2 (1.11%) SaaS
7 1 (0.56%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.56%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.56%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 160 (88.89%) BGP
2 110 (61.11%) Firewall
3 83 (46.11%) VPN
4 79 (43.89%) WAN
5 76 (42.22%) EIGRP
5 76 (42.22%) LAN
6 62 (34.44%) IPsec
7 56 (31.11%) Cisco ASA
8 54 (30.00%) MPLS
9 53 (29.44%) Wireless
10 44 (24.44%) Cisco Nexus
11 37 (20.56%) Network Security
12 35 (19.44%) TCP/IP
13 34 (18.89%) VLAN
14 32 (17.78%) DNS
15 31 (17.22%) SD-WAN
16 30 (16.67%) HSRP
17 27 (15.00%) SNMP
18 26 (14.44%) DHCP
19 25 (13.89%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 8 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (2.78%) Git
3 2 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 33 (18.33%) Finance
2 25 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.11%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.11%) Banking
8 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 121 (67.22%) Network Engineer
2 30 (16.67%) Network Specialist
3 24 (13.33%) Senior
4 19 (10.56%) Senior Network Engineer
5 11 (6.11%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (6.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (6.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 10 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (5.56%) Architect
7 9 (5.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 8 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.44%) Network Architect
9 7 (3.89%) Network Operations Engineer
9 7 (3.89%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Network Security Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Security Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.78%) Jinja
2 12 (6.67%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.11%) JSON
3 2 (1.11%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.11%) RESTful
3 2 (1.11%) XML
3 2 (1.11%) YANG
4 1 (0.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.33%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.33%) PKI
3 7 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.78%) Clustering
5 3 (1.67%) CCTV
5 3 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.33%) Linux
2 14 (7.78%) Windows
3 5 (2.78%) Unix
4 4 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (22.22%) Change Management
2 37 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (20.00%) Network Design
4 25 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (13.33%) ITIL
6 20 (11.11%) Network Management
7 18 (10.00%) ITSM
8 14 (7.78%) DevOps
9 13 (7.22%) High Availability
9 13 (7.22%) Network Monitoring
10 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (6.67%) Load Balancing
10 12 (6.67%) Migration
11 11 (6.11%) Computer Science
12 10 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (5.56%) Kalman Filter
12 10 (5.56%) Network Architecture
12 10 (5.56%) Threat Management
13 9 (5.00%) Customer Service
13 9 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.11%) Python
2 15 (8.33%) Perl
3 12 (6.67%) Tcl
4 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.67%) SQL
5 2 (1.11%) Bash
6 1 (0.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 85 (47.22%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (38.33%) CCNP
3 65 (36.11%) Security Cleared
4 47 (26.11%) CCNA
5 40 (22.22%) SC Cleared
6 23 (12.78%) DV Cleared
7 17 (9.44%) CCIE
8 13 (7.22%) Degree
9 10 (5.56%) JNCIA
10 8 (4.44%) AWS Certification
10 8 (4.44%) CCDP
10 8 (4.44%) JNCIS
11 6 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.78%) Azure Certification
13 4 (2.22%) VCAP
14 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (1.11%) BC Cleared
14 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (1.11%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.33%) SLA
2 3 (1.67%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.11%) NCSC
3 2 (1.11%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (10.56%) Firmware
2 9 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.44%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.11%) Docker
5 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (18.33%) FortiGate
2 22 (12.22%) Ansible
3 11 (6.11%) Terraform
4 7 (3.89%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (2.22%) Puppet
6 3 (1.67%) Kibana
6 3 (1.67%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.11%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.56%) CASB
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 144 (80.00%) Cisco
2 68 (37.78%) Palo Alto
3 63 (35.00%) Juniper
4 48 (26.67%) Fortinet
5 45 (25.00%) F5
6 30 (16.67%) SolarWinds
7 18 (10.00%) CheckPoint
8 14 (7.78%) Infoblox
9 13 (7.22%) Aruba
9 13 (7.22%) Citrix
10 11 (6.11%) VMware
11 10 (5.56%) Zscaler
12 9 (5.00%) Meraki
12 9 (5.00%) Microsoft
13 8 (4.44%) Arista
14 7 (3.89%) Extreme Networks
15 6 (3.33%) Google
15 6 (3.33%) Nokia
16 5 (2.78%) Splunk
17 4 (2.22%) LogicMonitor