OSPF Contracts in Central London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 167 185
Rank change year-on-year +35 +18 -23
Contract jobs citing OSPF 5 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.21% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.02% 2.60% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 9
10th Percentile - £428 £363
25th Percentile £475 £480 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £684 £522
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% +30.94% -30.40%
75th Percentile £541 £788 £538
90th Percentile £548 £806 £580
London median daily rate £488 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -18.75% +20.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 248 384 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.25% 10.47% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 262 342
10th Percentile £202 £183 £313
25th Percentile £350 £363 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £629
90th Percentile £765 £737 £725
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 13
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £26.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -29.49% +125.71%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £61.75
90th Percentile - £33.62 £65.10
London median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £26.75
% change year-on-year -34.87% +36.60% -43.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 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
City of London +36 5 £513 -31.67% 1
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (60.00%) WLAN
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (40.00%) IPsec
4 2 (40.00%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (40.00%) VPN
4 2 (40.00%) WAN
5 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNA
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) Meraki