OSPF Contracts in England

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 426 535
Rank change year-on-year +68 +109 -61
Contract jobs citing OSPF 185 222 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.46% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.83% 3.70% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 125 171
10th Percentile £313 £363 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £626 £550
90th Percentile £593 £727 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 4
10th Percentile £18.98 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £19.69 £60.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £62.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.73% +138.46% -34.59%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.25 £27.44
90th Percentile £23.33 £81.00 £29.13
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £78.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -69.87% +200.00% -34.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,829 5,995 8,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.08% 12.56% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,897 3,907 5,307
10th Percentile £213 £240 £226
25th Percentile £350 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £646 £618
90th Percentile £697 £735 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 407 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.01 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in England

OSPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in England

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in England

OSPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in England

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
London +99 91 £488 -18.75% 33
South East -2 37 £450 -10.00% 20
North of England +33 34 £425 -2.86% 14
North West +18 30 £475 +8.57% 9
South West -14 6 £488 - 4
Midlands +23 5 £575 -6.47% 6
East of England +9 4 £375 +7.14% 2
North East - 4 £385 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 1
West Midlands +10 2 - - 5
OSPF
UK

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 43 (23.24%) AWS
1 43 (23.24%) Azure
2 16 (8.65%) GCP
3 5 (2.70%) OCI
4 4 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.08%) GitHub
5 2 (1.08%) IaaS
5 2 (1.08%) PaaS
5 2 (1.08%) SaaS
6 1 (0.54%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.54%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 165 (89.19%) BGP
2 113 (61.08%) Firewall
3 85 (45.95%) EIGRP
4 81 (43.78%) WAN
5 80 (43.24%) VPN
6 76 (41.08%) LAN
7 66 (35.68%) IPsec
8 59 (31.89%) Cisco ASA
9 55 (29.73%) Wireless
10 51 (27.57%) MPLS
11 43 (23.24%) Cisco Nexus
12 39 (21.08%) Network Security
13 36 (19.46%) HSRP
14 35 (18.92%) DNS
15 34 (18.38%) SD-WAN
15 34 (18.38%) TCP/IP
15 34 (18.38%) VLAN
16 33 (17.84%) Cisco ISE
17 29 (15.68%) Cisco Firepower
17 29 (15.68%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (2.16%) JIRA
3 2 (1.08%) Git
General
1 33 (17.84%) Finance
2 26 (14.05%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.03%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.24%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.62%) Banking
7 3 (1.62%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 125 (67.57%) Network Engineer
2 30 (16.22%) Network Specialist
3 24 (12.97%) Senior
4 19 (10.27%) Senior Network Engineer
5 12 (6.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 11 (5.95%) Cisco Engineer
6 11 (5.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 10 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 9 (4.86%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 9 (4.86%) Architect
9 8 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.78%) Network Operations Engineer
10 7 (3.78%) Operations Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Network Architect
11 6 (3.24%) Network Security Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Security Engineer
12 5 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 5 (2.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.57%) Jinja
2 12 (6.49%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.08%) JSON
3 2 (1.08%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.08%) RESTful
3 2 (1.08%) XML
3 2 (1.08%) YANG
4 1 (0.54%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.76%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.11%) PKI
3 7 (3.78%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.70%) Clustering
5 3 (1.62%) CCTV
5 3 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.54%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.57%) Windows
2 12 (6.49%) Linux
3 4 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (21.62%) Change Management
2 38 (20.54%) Network Design
3 37 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (13.51%) Network Management
5 24 (12.97%) ITIL
5 24 (12.97%) ITSM
6 14 (7.57%) DevOps
6 14 (7.57%) High Availability
6 14 (7.57%) Migration
6 14 (7.57%) Network Monitoring
7 12 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (6.49%) Load Balancing
8 10 (5.41%) Agile
8 10 (5.41%) Computer Science
8 10 (5.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (5.41%) Network Virtualisation
8 10 (5.41%) Threat Management
9 9 (4.86%) Kalman Filter
9 9 (4.86%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.05%) Python
2 12 (6.49%) Perl
2 12 (6.49%) Tcl
3 3 (1.62%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.08%) Bash
5 1 (0.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 86 (46.49%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (38.38%) CCNP
3 67 (36.22%) Security Cleared
4 49 (26.49%) CCNA
5 43 (23.24%) SC Cleared
6 21 (11.35%) DV Cleared
7 18 (9.73%) CCIE
8 12 (6.49%) Degree
9 10 (5.41%) JNCIA
10 9 (4.86%) AWS Certification
11 7 (3.78%) CCDP
11 7 (3.78%) JNCIS
12 6 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.70%) Azure Certification
14 4 (2.16%) VCAP
15 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 2 (1.08%) BC Cleared
15 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (1.08%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.24%) SLA
2 3 (1.62%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.62%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.08%) NCSC
3 2 (1.08%) QA
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (10.27%) Firmware
2 9 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.32%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.16%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.08%) Docker
5 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (17.30%) FortiGate
2 19 (10.27%) Ansible
3 11 (5.95%) Terraform
4 8 (4.32%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (2.16%) Puppet
6 3 (1.62%) Kibana
6 3 (1.62%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.08%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.54%) CASB
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 148 (80.00%) Cisco
2 78 (42.16%) Palo Alto
3 63 (34.05%) Juniper
4 48 (25.95%) Fortinet
5 43 (23.24%) F5
6 37 (20.00%) SolarWinds
7 21 (11.35%) CheckPoint
8 19 (10.27%) Citrix
9 16 (8.65%) Aruba
10 14 (7.57%) Infoblox
11 12 (6.49%) Zscaler
12 10 (5.41%) VMware
13 9 (4.86%) Meraki
13 9 (4.86%) Microsoft
14 8 (4.32%) Arista
15 7 (3.78%) Extreme Networks
16 6 (3.24%) Google
17 5 (2.70%) Splunk
18 4 (2.16%) McAfee
18 4 (2.16%) Nokia