OSPF Contracts in Wales

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 34 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.07% - 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.43% - 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £285 - -
25th Percentile £320 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £375
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 67 37 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 22.87% 9.37% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 23 78
10th Percentile £165 £173 £250
25th Percentile £208 £199 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £440 £588 £550
90th Percentile £472 £685 £641
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £23.75 £14.84 -
25th Percentile £30.00 £15.56 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £16.77 -
Median % change year-on-year +123.68% - -
75th Percentile £43.13 £17.97 -
90th Percentile £50.00 £18.69 -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Wales

OSPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in Wales

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in Wales

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South Wales - 8 £450 - 6
West Wales - 1 £475 -
OSPF
UK

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
2 8 (88.89%) Wireless
3 5 (55.56%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (55.56%) IPsec
3 5 (55.56%) Network Security
4 4 (44.44%) Firewall
4 4 (44.44%) SD-WAN
5 3 (33.33%) 802.11
5 3 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (33.33%) HSRP
5 3 (33.33%) VPN
6 2 (22.22%) DHCP
6 2 (22.22%) DNS
6 2 (22.22%) IPv4
7 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (11.11%) VLAN
7 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
7 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
1 2 (22.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
2 4 (44.44%) Network Design
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Statistics
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) CCNP
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (55.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (55.56%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) CCIE
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Cacti
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (77.78%) SolarWinds
3 6 (66.67%) VMware
4 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (22.22%) Ekahau
6 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 1 (11.11%) F5
6 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 1 (11.11%) Juniper
6 1 (11.11%) Meraki
6 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (11.11%) Splunk