OSPF Contracts in the South East

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 171 182
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing OSPF 44 55 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% 0.94% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.51% 5.57% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 39
10th Percentile £335 £406 £323
25th Percentile £425 £431 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +11.54%
75th Percentile £488 £558 £498
90th Percentile £550 £600 £588
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £19.65 £29.90 -
25th Percentile £21.38 £60.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £62.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.48% +138.46% +22.35%
75th Percentile £46.13 £80.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £58.95 £80.40 -
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
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,254 987 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.70% 16.93% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 595 776
10th Percentile £205 £235 £189
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £659
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 74 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -34.85%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £46.40
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OSPF in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OSPF in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hampshire +27 33 £450 - 8
Berkshire -23 8 £345 -31.00% 1
Thames Valley -25 8 £345 -31.00% 2
Surrey +13 2 £500 - 3
Kent +1 1 £363 -12.12%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.27%) AWS
1 1 (2.27%) Azure
1 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (2.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (100.00%) BGP
2 32 (72.73%) EIGRP
3 23 (52.27%) DMVPN
4 20 (45.45%) Firewall
5 11 (25.00%) IPsec
5 11 (25.00%) VPN
6 9 (20.45%) LAN
7 8 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (18.18%) MPLS
8 7 (15.91%) VLAN
9 6 (13.64%) WAN
10 5 (11.36%) Wireless
11 4 (9.09%) DSL
11 4 (9.09%) Ethernet
11 4 (9.09%) IPv4
11 4 (9.09%) IPv6
11 4 (9.09%) TACACS
11 4 (9.09%) Unified Communications
General
1 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
1 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (52.27%) Network Engineer
2 17 (38.64%) Network Specialist
3 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Architect
4 4 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Lead
4 4 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 4 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 4 (9.09%) Senior
4 4 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Network Support
6 2 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (2.27%) IoT
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
1 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Network Design
2 5 (11.36%) ITIL
3 4 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 4 (9.09%) Load Balancing
3 4 (9.09%) Migration
3 4 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (9.09%) Prototyping
4 3 (6.82%) High Availability
4 3 (6.82%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (6.82%) Mathematics
4 3 (6.82%) Mentoring
4 3 (6.82%) Web Filtering
5 2 (4.55%) Change Management
5 2 (4.55%) Information Management
5 2 (4.55%) Network Architecture
5 2 (4.55%) Presales
5 2 (4.55%) Process Management
5 2 (4.55%) Service Delivery
5 2 (4.55%) Traceability Matrix
5 2 (4.55%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 33 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 18 (40.91%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (25.00%) CCNP
5 9 (20.45%) CCNA
6 7 (15.91%) JNCIS
7 6 (13.64%) JNCIA
7 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
8 5 (11.36%) CCDP
9 4 (9.09%) Degree
10 2 (4.55%) BC Cleared
10 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (2.27%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (54.55%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 44 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (93.18%) Juniper
3 28 (63.64%) Fortinet
4 7 (15.91%) F5
5 3 (6.82%) Forcepoint
5 3 (6.82%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.55%) ADVA
6 2 (4.55%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.55%) VMware
7 1 (2.27%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (2.27%) Nokia
7 1 (2.27%) Nokia Networks
7 1 (2.27%) QinetiQ
7 1 (2.27%) Tellabs