OSPF Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.53% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 19 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 7.41% 13.67% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 18
10th Percentile £300 £223 £250
25th Percentile £403 £388 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +16.88%
75th Percentile £725 £550 £525
90th Percentile £784 £618 £538
South East median daily rate £478 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.11% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.67% -
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £68.51 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% +14.18% +33.33%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OSPF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

OSPF job vacancy trend in West Sussex

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing OSPF

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing OSPF

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Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 8 October 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
Crawley - 1 £400 - 2
OSPF
South East

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIA
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIP
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) SAP