OSPF Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 310 302 339
Rank change year-on-year -8 +37 +11
Contract jobs citing OSPF 88 147 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.64% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.67% 4.14% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 93 100
10th Percentile £313 £340 £302
25th Percentile £356 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £515 £525 £538
90th Percentile £550 £615 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £60.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.35% +181.82% -44.30%
75th Percentile £19.50 £80.25 £24.75
90th Percentile - £80.40 £25.80
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
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,295 3,548 4,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 15.48% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,866 2,221 2,761
10th Percentile £205 £210 £188
25th Percentile £350 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £550
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 300 237
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.37
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.05
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £71.01 £75.00 £59.25
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East -2 37 £450 -10.00% 19
North of England +33 34 £425 -2.86% 13
North West +18 30 £475 +8.57% 8
South West -14 6 £488 - 5
Midlands +23 5 £575 -6.47% 7
East of England +9 4 £375 +7.14% 2
North East - 4 £385 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 1
Scotland +18 2 £500 +1.01% 12
West Midlands +10 2 - - 6
OSPF
UK

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.59%) Azure
2 15 (17.05%) AWS
3 6 (6.82%) GCP
4 2 (2.27%) GitHub
4 2 (2.27%) IaaS
4 2 (2.27%) PaaS
4 2 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 73 (82.95%) BGP
2 52 (59.09%) EIGRP
3 45 (51.14%) Firewall
4 36 (40.91%) VPN
5 30 (34.09%) Cisco ASA
6 28 (31.82%) IPsec
7 24 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
7 24 (27.27%) DMVPN
7 24 (27.27%) WAN
8 20 (22.73%) LAN
8 20 (22.73%) MPLS
9 19 (21.59%) Cisco ISE
10 18 (20.45%) HSRP
10 18 (20.45%) Spanning Tree
11 16 (18.18%) SNMP
11 16 (18.18%) TCP/IP
12 15 (17.05%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (15.91%) NetScaler
13 14 (15.91%) VLAN
14 13 (14.77%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.55%) Finance
4 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 17 (19.32%) Network Specialist
3 11 (12.50%) Senior
3 11 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Architect
5 7 (7.95%) Network Operations Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Operations Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Network Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Lead
9 3 (3.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Network Technical Architect
9 3 (3.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.64%) Jinja
2 4 (4.55%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.14%) CMDB
2 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.14%) IoT
2 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.14%) PKI
2 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Linux
2 9 (10.23%) Windows
3 2 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.68%) Network Design
2 19 (21.59%) ITIL
3 18 (20.45%) Change Management
4 17 (19.32%) Network Management
4 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.91%) DevOps
5 14 (15.91%) ITSM
6 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (7.95%) Customer Service
8 7 (7.95%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (5.68%) Agile
9 5 (5.68%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (5.68%) Computer Science
9 5 (5.68%) High Availability
9 5 (5.68%) Mentoring
10 4 (4.55%) Migration
10 4 (4.55%) Prototyping
10 4 (4.55%) Roadmaps
10 4 (4.55%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.32%) Python
2 12 (13.64%) Perl
2 12 (13.64%) Tcl
3 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (60.23%) Security Cleared
2 42 (47.73%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (38.64%) CCNA
4 31 (35.23%) CCNP
5 29 (32.95%) SC Cleared
6 20 (22.73%) DV Cleared
7 10 (11.36%) JNCIA
8 7 (7.95%) JNCIS
9 5 (5.68%) CCIE
9 5 (5.68%) Degree
10 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (4.55%) VCAP
11 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.14%) BC Cleared
12 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (1.14%) CCDP
12 1 (1.14%) CCIP
12 1 (1.14%) GIAC
12 1 (1.14%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) HIPAA
1 3 (3.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 13 (14.77%) Firmware
2 8 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.95%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (29.55%) FortiGate
2 14 (15.91%) Ansible
3 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.41%) Puppet
3 3 (3.41%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.14%) Observium
4 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 66 (75.00%) Cisco
2 41 (46.59%) Juniper
3 29 (32.95%) Fortinet
4 25 (28.41%) Palo Alto
5 22 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 14 (15.91%) Citrix
6 14 (15.91%) F5
7 8 (9.09%) VMware
8 5 (5.68%) Zscaler
9 4 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (3.41%) Aruba
11 2 (2.27%) Blue Coat
11 2 (2.27%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.27%) McAfee
11 2 (2.27%) Splunk
12 1 (1.14%) Alcatel-Lucent
12 1 (1.14%) Forcepoint
12 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.14%) Oracle
12 1 (1.14%) Red Hat