OSPF Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring OSPF skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 47 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 0.19% 0.94% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.35% 5.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £300
% change year-on-year +5.00% +66.67% -35.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 70 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 14.10% 16.47% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 47 48
10th Percentile £209 £291 £263
25th Percentile £350 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £583 £581
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +0.34% +10.67%
75th Percentile £582 £672 £738
90th Percentile £790 £775 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £17.10 - -
25th Percentile £20.06 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £30.00 - -
90th Percentile £33.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +57.14%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Warwickshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing OSPF

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Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing OSPF

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Warwick -9 1 - -
OSPF
West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) NaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless Security
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CWSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler