OSPF Contracts in Reading

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 54 89 71
Rank change year-on-year +35 -18 +4
Contract jobs citing OSPF 6 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.01% 0.17% 1.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.98% 0.81% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - £335 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £345 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -31.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £355 £530
90th Percentile - - £551
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £345 £500
% change year-on-year +30.43% -31.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 86 246 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.41% 20.64% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 113 97
10th Percentile £221 £205 £337
25th Percentile £307 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £499 £608 £650
90th Percentile £623 - £718
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 3
10th Percentile - £77.22 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.52% +153.85%
75th Percentile - £87.53 £73.69
90th Percentile - - £78.30
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (100.00%) BGP
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (83.33%) VLAN
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) TACACS
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CCNP
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (66.67%) CCSA
2 4 (66.67%) CCSE
2 4 (66.67%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
3 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Aruba