OSPF Contracts in Hillingdon

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hillingdon requiring OSPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OSPF over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 17.02% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £338 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £453 - -
90th Percentile £469 - -
West London median daily rate £400 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 27 24 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 57.45% 24.00% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 24
10th Percentile £172 £213 £158
25th Percentile £240 £215 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £250 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -64.29% +297.16%
75th Percentile £425 £525 £734
90th Percentile £448 £538 £838
West London median daily rate £400 £280 £600
% change year-on-year +42.86% -53.33% +33.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Hillingdon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in Hillingdon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hillingdon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in Hillingdon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in Hillingdon

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Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Drayton - 4 £400 -
Heathrow - 3 £325 -
Uxbridge - 1 £425 -
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West London

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) BGP
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
1 8 (100.00%) VLAN
1 8 (100.00%) VPN
2 6 (75.00%) LAN
2 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 6 (75.00%) WAN
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (62.50%) DHCP
3 5 (62.50%) DNS
3 5 (62.50%) EIGRP
3 5 (62.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (50.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (50.00%) SSL
4 4 (50.00%) Wireless
4 4 (50.00%) WLAN
5 3 (37.50%) Cisco Wireless
5 3 (37.50%) DMVPN
6 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (12.50%) IPsec
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aviation
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Network Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Check Point Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Check Point Support
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall Support
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Security Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (87.50%) CCNP
2 7 (87.50%) CCSA
3 3 (37.50%) CCNA
3 3 (37.50%) JNCIA
4 2 (25.00%) CCSE
4 2 (25.00%) JNCIS
5 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (75.00%) Juniper
2 6 (75.00%) SolarWinds
3 5 (62.50%) F5
3 5 (62.50%) Meraki