OSPF Contracts in Yorkshire

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 91 - 121
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing OSPF 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.098% - 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.55% - 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile - - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.51%
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 183 187 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.99% 11.07% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 136 146
10th Percentile £196 £200 £181
25th Percentile £235 £313 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £588
90th Percentile £675 £641 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 38
10th Percentile - £12.75 -
25th Percentile £40.50 £13.87 £9.80
Median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%
75th Percentile £41.50 £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 1
OSPF
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco