OSPF Contracts in Portsmouth

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing OSPF 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 0.99% - 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.90% - 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +7.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 29 90 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 14.36% 42.86% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 50
10th Percentile £321 - £273
25th Percentile £395 £450 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +26.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £464
90th Percentile £663 £688 £613
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £581 £450
% change year-on-year -1.08% +29.17% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 59 7
10th Percentile £48.20 £51.06 £53.41
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.40 £55.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -0.26% +4.55%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £65.79
90th Percentile £62.00 £70.75 £69.17
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.20
% change year-on-year -4.10% -1.46% +29.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Portsmouth

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper