OSPF Contracts in the North of England

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 187 204
Rank change year-on-year +30 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing OSPF 32 32 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 0.55% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.38% 4.71% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 21
10th Percentile £313 £295 -
25th Percentile £327 £363 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £488 £325
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% +50.00% -25.63%
75th Percentile £515 £541 £475
90th Percentile £527 £550 £550
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 595 680 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.51% 11.70% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 468 605
10th Percentile £200 £204 £181
25th Percentile £313 £331 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% +9.38% +11.25%
75th Percentile £607 £570 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 48 28
10th Percentile £13.53 - £11.10
25th Percentile £17.72 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.35% -5.01%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.13
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £47.17
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.66 £23.91
% change year-on-year +114.36% -21.96% -4.36%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the North of England

OSPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in the North of England

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in the North of England

OSPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in the North of England

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +31 30 £440 +6.67% 4
North East +21 2 £345 -37.27% 2
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) IaaS
4 2 (6.25%) PaaS
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (65.63%) BGP
2 17 (53.13%) EIGRP
3 16 (50.00%) Firewall
4 15 (46.88%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (40.63%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (40.63%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (40.63%) HSRP
5 13 (40.63%) IPsec
5 13 (40.63%) NetScaler
5 13 (40.63%) VPN
6 12 (37.50%) SNMP
6 12 (37.50%) Spanning Tree
6 12 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (31.25%) Ethernet
7 10 (31.25%) LAN
7 10 (31.25%) WAN
7 10 (31.25%) Wireless
7 10 (31.25%) Wireless Security
8 6 (18.75%) MPLS
9 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (93.75%) Network Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Senior
2 9 (28.13%) Senior Network Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Network Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Network Support
6 1 (3.13%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Remote Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) Jinja
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Change Management
2 13 (40.63%) ITIL
2 13 (40.63%) Network Management
2 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (37.50%) DevOps
3 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (37.50%) ITSM
4 8 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
5 3 (9.38%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (9.38%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (6.25%) High Availability
6 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Perl
1 12 (37.50%) Python
1 12 (37.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 24 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 24 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 24 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (65.63%) CCNA
3 17 (53.13%) CCNP
4 3 (9.38%) CCIE
4 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) VCAP
5 2 (6.25%) JNCIA
5 2 (6.25%) JNCIS
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) Firmware
2 7 (21.88%) Hyper-V
2 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) SolarWinds
2 16 (50.00%) Cisco
3 13 (40.63%) Citrix
3 13 (40.63%) Palo Alto
4 7 (21.88%) VMware
5 3 (9.38%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (6.25%) Juniper
7 1 (3.13%) Ciena
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.13%) WatchGuard