OSPF Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring OSPF skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 5.00% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +5.00% +25.00% -5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2 16 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 5.00% 21.62% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £623 -
25th Percentile £513 £635 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £850 £575
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -3.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Herefordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing OSPF

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Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing OSPF

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle