OSPF Contracts in England

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 377 419 526
Rank change year-on-year +42 +107 -31
Contract jobs citing OSPF 174 226 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.48% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.61% 3.81% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 125 175
10th Percentile £313 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £533 £626 £550
90th Percentile £557 £727 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +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% -34.18%
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% -34.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +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 12 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 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
London +75 83 £488 -18.75% 24
South East -8 35 £450 -15.09% 20
North of England +20 33 £433 -1.14% 13
North West +17 30 £475 +8.57% 8
South West -18 7 £488 - 5
Midlands +14 4 £575 -6.47% 2
East of England +6 4 £375 +7.14% 1
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £575 -
West Midlands +12 1 - - 2
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 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.71%) AWS
1 43 (24.71%) Azure
2 15 (8.62%) GCP
3 5 (2.87%) OCI
4 3 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.15%) GitHub
5 2 (1.15%) IaaS
5 2 (1.15%) PaaS
5 2 (1.15%) SaaS
6 1 (0.57%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.57%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.57%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 155 (89.08%) BGP
2 102 (58.62%) Firewall
3 82 (47.13%) EIGRP
4 71 (40.80%) VPN
5 70 (40.23%) WAN
6 66 (37.93%) LAN
7 60 (34.48%) IPsec
8 52 (29.89%) Cisco ASA
9 48 (27.59%) MPLS
10 47 (27.01%) Wireless
11 39 (22.41%) Cisco Nexus
11 39 (22.41%) Network Security
12 36 (20.69%) HSRP
13 34 (19.54%) DNS
14 33 (18.97%) SD-WAN
14 33 (18.97%) TCP/IP
14 33 (18.97%) VLAN
15 32 (18.39%) Cisco ISE
16 29 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
17 28 (16.09%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (2.30%) JIRA
3 2 (1.15%) Git
General
1 34 (19.54%) Finance
2 26 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.47%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.72%) Banking
9 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.57%) Aviation
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 123 (70.69%) Network Engineer
2 22 (12.64%) Network Specialist
2 22 (12.64%) Senior
3 18 (10.34%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (6.90%) Cisco Engineer
4 12 (6.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 12 (6.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 10 (5.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 9 (5.17%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 8 (4.60%) Architect
7 8 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.45%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (3.45%) Security Engineer
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.87%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (2.87%) Network Architect
9 5 (2.87%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (2.87%) Support Engineer
10 4 (2.30%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.05%) Jinja
2 12 (6.90%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.15%) JSON
3 2 (1.15%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.15%) RESTful
3 2 (1.15%) XML
3 2 (1.15%) YANG
4 1 (0.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.60%) PKI
3 5 (2.87%) Clustering
3 5 (2.87%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.15%) CCTV
4 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.57%) IoT
5 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.47%) Windows
2 12 (6.90%) Linux
3 3 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.26%) Network Design
2 34 (19.54%) Change Management
2 34 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (14.94%) Network Management
4 24 (13.79%) ITSM
5 23 (13.22%) ITIL
6 21 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (8.05%) DevOps
7 14 (8.05%) Network Monitoring
8 13 (7.47%) Load Balancing
9 12 (6.90%) High Availability
10 11 (6.32%) Migration
11 10 (5.75%) Computer Science
11 10 (5.75%) Network Virtualisation
12 9 (5.17%) Customer Service
12 9 (5.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (5.17%) Kalman Filter
13 8 (4.60%) Network Architecture
14 7 (4.02%) Agile
14 7 (4.02%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.94%) Python
2 12 (6.90%) Perl
2 12 (6.90%) Tcl
3 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.15%) Bash
5 1 (0.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 83 (47.70%) Cisco Certification
2 68 (39.08%) CCNP
3 62 (35.63%) Security Cleared
4 45 (25.86%) CCNA
5 38 (21.84%) SC Cleared
6 21 (12.07%) DV Cleared
7 18 (10.34%) CCIE
8 11 (6.32%) Degree
9 9 (5.17%) AWS Certification
10 7 (4.02%) CCDP
10 7 (4.02%) JNCIA
11 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
13 4 (2.30%) JNCIS
13 4 (2.30%) VCAP
14 2 (1.15%) BC Cleared
14 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (1.15%) CCIP
15 1 (0.57%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.45%) SLA
2 3 (1.72%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.15%) NCSC
3 2 (1.15%) QA
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (10.92%) Firmware
2 10 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.60%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.15%) Docker
5 2 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (16.09%) FortiGate
2 19 (10.92%) Ansible
3 11 (6.32%) Terraform
4 8 (4.60%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (2.30%) Puppet
6 3 (1.72%) Kibana
6 3 (1.72%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.57%) Cacti
7 1 (0.57%) CASB
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.57%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 137 (78.74%) Cisco
2 70 (40.23%) Palo Alto
3 52 (29.89%) Juniper
4 44 (25.29%) F5
5 42 (24.14%) Fortinet
6 37 (21.26%) SolarWinds
7 20 (11.49%) CheckPoint
8 19 (10.92%) Citrix
9 16 (9.20%) Aruba
10 14 (8.05%) Infoblox
11 12 (6.90%) Zscaler
12 11 (6.32%) VMware
13 9 (5.17%) Meraki
14 8 (4.60%) Arista
14 8 (4.60%) Microsoft
15 6 (3.45%) Google
16 5 (2.87%) Nokia
16 5 (2.87%) Splunk
17 4 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
17 4 (2.30%) McAfee