OSPF Contracts in London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 399 514
Rank change year-on-year +109 +115 -132
Contract jobs citing OSPF 106 97 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.18% 3.62% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 68
10th Percentile £321 £413 £363
25th Percentile £375 £470 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £650 £545
90th Percentile £863 £829 £694
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £23.45 - £25.73
25th Percentile £23.75 - £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 - £27.50
75th Percentile £31.75 - £29.13
90th Percentile £35.95 - £29.80
England median hourly rate £24.50 £62.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -60.48% +125.45% +19.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,715 2,678 3,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.63% 9.93% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,884 2,551
10th Percentile £213 £256 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +2.05% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 53 83
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £20.91
25th Percentile £18.36 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £46.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +31.43% -22.22%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.52
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.66 £23.91
% change year-on-year +114.36% -21.96% -4.36%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OSPF in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OSPF in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +30 3 - - 7
East London - 2 £520 -
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 7 (6.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.47%) AWS
2 24 (22.64%) Azure
3 11 (10.38%) GCP
4 5 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (4.72%) OCI
5 1 (0.94%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.94%) Nutanix
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 102 (96.23%) BGP
2 80 (75.47%) Firewall
3 69 (65.09%) WAN
4 67 (63.21%) LAN
5 63 (59.43%) VPN
6 47 (44.34%) IPsec
7 45 (42.45%) Wireless
8 42 (39.62%) MPLS
9 36 (33.96%) Cisco ASA
10 33 (31.13%) Network Security
11 31 (29.25%) EIGRP
12 26 (24.53%) Cisco Nexus
13 25 (23.58%) SD-WAN
14 24 (22.64%) DNS
14 24 (22.64%) VLAN
15 22 (20.75%) DHCP
15 22 (20.75%) HSRP
16 21 (19.81%) WLAN
17 20 (18.87%) TCP/IP
18 19 (17.92%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (4.72%) Git
General
1 29 (27.36%) Finance
2 16 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (14.15%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.60%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.66%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.72%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (2.83%) Banking
8 3 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.94%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 70 (66.04%) Network Engineer
2 20 (18.87%) Network Specialist
3 13 (12.26%) Senior
4 11 (10.38%) Cisco Engineer
4 11 (10.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Network Security Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) WAN Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Data Centre Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Implementation Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) IP Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) IP Network Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.89%) Jinja
2 2 (1.89%) JSON
2 2 (1.89%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.89%) RESTful
2 2 (1.89%) XML
2 2 (1.89%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 29 (27.36%) Data Centre
2 20 (18.87%) PKI
3 7 (6.60%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.72%) CCTV
4 5 (4.72%) Clustering
4 5 (4.72%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.89%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.60%) Windows
2 6 (5.66%) Linux
2 6 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.53%) Change Management
2 25 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (15.09%) Threat Management
4 15 (14.15%) Network Architecture
4 15 (14.15%) Network Design
5 14 (13.21%) Agile
5 14 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (13.21%) Migration
6 11 (10.38%) High Availability
7 9 (8.49%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (8.49%) Supplier Management
8 8 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (7.55%) Kalman Filter
8 8 (7.55%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
9 7 (6.60%) Change Control
9 7 (6.60%) ITIL
9 7 (6.60%) Load Balancing
9 7 (6.60%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.04%) Python
2 5 (4.72%) Perl
3 3 (2.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (40.57%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (38.68%) CCNP
3 16 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
4 14 (13.21%) CCIE
4 14 (13.21%) CCNA
5 12 (11.32%) Degree
6 7 (6.60%) CCDP
7 6 (5.66%) AWS Certification
8 5 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.72%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.89%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.89%) CCIP
9 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.89%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.89%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.94%) CCSE
10 1 (0.94%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) SLA
2 2 (1.89%) NCSC
2 2 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (5.66%) Active Directory
1 6 (5.66%) Firmware
2 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (11.32%) FortiGate
2 8 (7.55%) Ansible
2 8 (7.55%) Terraform
3 5 (4.72%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (2.83%) Kibana
5 2 (1.89%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.94%) CASB
6 1 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (85.85%) Cisco
2 54 (50.94%) Palo Alto
3 33 (31.13%) Juniper
4 30 (28.30%) F5
5 29 (27.36%) Fortinet
6 18 (16.98%) CheckPoint
7 14 (13.21%) Infoblox
8 12 (11.32%) Arista
9 11 (10.38%) Extreme Networks
10 10 (9.43%) Aruba
11 9 (8.49%) Meraki
11 9 (8.49%) SolarWinds
12 8 (7.55%) Microsoft
13 7 (6.60%) Zscaler
14 6 (5.66%) Google
15 5 (4.72%) Huawei
15 5 (4.72%) Nokia
16 3 (2.83%) Dell
16 3 (2.83%) Splunk
17 2 (1.89%) Alcatel-Lucent