OSPF Contracts in the South East

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 157 191
Rank change year-on-year -8 +34 -4
Contract jobs citing OSPF 35 58 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.61% 1.02% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.94% 5.91% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 28
10th Percentile £380 £395 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £530 £445
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +19.10% +1.95%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £520
90th Percentile £550 £623 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 1
10th Percentile - £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £60.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.35% +138.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £19.50 £80.25 £26.50
90th Percentile - £80.40 -
England median hourly rate £21.25 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -65.73% +138.46% -34.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,192 982 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 20.72% 17.34% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 578 777
10th Percentile £214 £246 £210
25th Percentile £390 £363 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £700 £651
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 70 85
10th Percentile £17.26 £18.20 £14.27
25th Percentile £29.81 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +171.49% -48.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £63.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

OSPF
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 12 June 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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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 12 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
Hampshire +4 29 £450 -10.00% 6
Thames Valley -22 5 £345 -37.27% 6
Berkshire -30 5 £345 -37.27% 5
Surrey +15 1 £500 - 6
OSPF
England

OSPF
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 2 (5.71%) AWS
1 2 (5.71%) Azure
1 2 (5.71%) GCP
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 35 (100.00%) BGP
2 31 (88.57%) EIGRP
3 24 (68.57%) DMVPN
4 13 (37.14%) Firewall
5 12 (34.29%) IPsec
6 9 (25.71%) Cisco Firepower
7 7 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (20.00%) LAN
7 7 (20.00%) VPN
8 6 (17.14%) MPLS
9 5 (14.29%) WAN
10 4 (11.43%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (11.43%) Network Security
10 4 (11.43%) VLAN
11 3 (8.57%) HSRP
11 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
11 3 (8.57%) Spanning Tree
12 2 (5.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (5.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Network Specialist
2 15 (42.86%) Network Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Network Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Network Support
4 2 (5.71%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Security Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Network Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) IoT
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Network Design
2 4 (11.43%) Migration
2 4 (11.43%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (11.43%) Prototyping
3 3 (8.57%) ITIL
4 2 (5.71%) Agile
4 2 (5.71%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
4 2 (5.71%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (5.71%) Scrum
4 2 (5.71%) User Stories
5 1 (2.86%) Communications Security
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.86%) High Availability
5 1 (2.86%) Information Management
5 1 (2.86%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (2.86%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.86%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.86%) WAN Optimisation
5 1 (2.86%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 25 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (51.43%) DV Cleared
3 11 (31.43%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (22.86%) CCNA
5 7 (20.00%) CCNP
6 4 (11.43%) JNCIA
7 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.86%) BC Cleared
8 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.86%) CCDP
8 1 (2.86%) CCIE
8 1 (2.86%) CCIP
8 1 (2.86%) Degree
8 1 (2.86%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 22 (62.86%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) Cisco
2 33 (94.29%) Juniper
3 24 (68.57%) Fortinet
4 6 (17.14%) F5
5 4 (11.43%) Palo Alto
6 3 (8.57%) Aruba
7 2 (5.71%) Blue Coat
7 2 (5.71%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.71%) McAfee
7 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
8 1 (2.86%) ADVA
8 1 (2.86%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (2.86%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (2.86%) Forcepoint
8 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds