OSPF Contracts in the Midlands

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 151 191
Rank change year-on-year +14 +40 -27
Contract jobs citing OSPF 4 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.14% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.83% 1.40% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £533 £401 £241
25th Percentile £544 £533 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +63.93% -
75th Percentile £594 £626 £425
90th Percentile £598 £626 £435
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +8.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 480 500 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.28% 15.53% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 323 408
10th Percentile £200 £250 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £579 £597 £526
90th Percentile £675 £700 £619
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 25
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.75 £12.15
25th Percentile £12.88 £19.56 £15.63
Median hourly rate £14.27 £22.34 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% +27.19% +17.07%
75th Percentile £25.55 £28.75 £22.75
90th Percentile £28.75 £35.13 £23.40
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 1
West Midlands +12 1 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
4 1 (25.00%) CATAPAN
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) HSRP
4 1 (25.00%) IPsec
4 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (25.00%) VLAN
4 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) IT Architect
3 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (25.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) HIPAA
1 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper