OSPF Contracts in the City of London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for OSPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OSPF over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 161 181
Rank change year-on-year +45 +20 -23
Contract jobs citing OSPF 6 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.73% 2.92% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile - £472 £363
25th Percentile £475 £546 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £684 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% +36.70% -5.78%
75th Percentile £541 £788 £508
90th Percentile £548 £806 £598
Central London median daily rate £513 £684 £500
% change year-on-year -25.02% +36.70% -33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

OSPF is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 343 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.20% 9.93% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 234 299
10th Percentile £208 £231 £313
25th Percentile £350 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £625
90th Percentile £749 £754 £715
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile - £20.38 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -31.15% +106.78%
75th Percentile £14.25 £28.09 £48.81
90th Percentile - £32.24 £62.43
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% -40.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for OSPF in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) BGP
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
3 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 4 (66.67%) WLAN
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (50.00%) DHCP
4 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) EIGRP
4 3 (50.00%) IPsec
4 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 3 (50.00%) WAN
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (16.67%) Network Security
6 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCNA
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki