OSPF Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 281 332 444
Rank change year-on-year +51 +112 -19
Contract jobs citing OSPF 68 128 186
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.43% 4.54% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 83 151
10th Percentile £335 £363 £356
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £572
90th Percentile £575 £644 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £18.98 £18.50 £22.80
25th Percentile £19.69 £61.81 £25.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £78.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.93% +201.92% -
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.44 £26.50
90th Percentile £23.33 £81.00 £28.75
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,535 2,817 4,458
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.48% 11.62% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,879 3,052
10th Percentile £300 £344 £313
25th Percentile £413 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £646 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 95 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.90 £18.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £27.17
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.32 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.73% +16.46% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

OSPF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OSPF trend for jobs with a WFH option

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OSPF.

OSPF daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OSPF over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

OSPF daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OSPF.

OSPF hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.24%) AWS
1 9 (13.24%) Azure
2 2 (2.94%) GCP
2 2 (2.94%) GitHub
2 2 (2.94%) IaaS
2 2 (2.94%) PaaS
2 2 (2.94%) SaaS
3 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 67 (98.53%) BGP
2 45 (66.18%) Firewall
3 32 (47.06%) Cisco ASA
4 29 (42.65%) EIGRP
5 26 (38.24%) IPsec
5 26 (38.24%) WAN
6 20 (29.41%) Cisco Nexus
6 20 (29.41%) LAN
6 20 (29.41%) VPN
7 19 (27.94%) SD-WAN
8 18 (26.47%) MPLS
9 16 (23.53%) Cisco ISE
9 16 (23.53%) HSRP
10 14 (20.59%) Cisco Firepower
10 14 (20.59%) NetScaler
11 13 (19.12%) Network Security
11 13 (19.12%) SNMP
12 12 (17.65%) NX-OS
12 12 (17.65%) TCP/IP
12 12 (17.65%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 22 (32.35%) Finance
2 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.94%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.47%) German Language
Job Titles
1 53 (77.94%) Network Engineer
2 9 (13.24%) Senior
3 7 (10.29%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Network Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Implementation Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Network Specialist
6 3 (4.41%) Network Technical Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Technical Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Data Network Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Test Engineer
8 1 (1.47%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
8 1 (1.47%) Network Integration Engineer
8 1 (1.47%) Remote Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) Jinja
2 1 (1.47%) .NET
2 1 (1.47%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.35%) Clustering
3 3 (4.41%) PKI
4 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) IoT
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Windows
1 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.88%) Change Management
2 14 (20.59%) Network Management
3 13 (19.12%) ITSM
4 10 (14.71%) High Availability
5 9 (13.24%) ITIL
6 8 (11.76%) DevOps
6 8 (11.76%) Migration
6 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.29%) Load Balancing
7 7 (10.29%) Network Design
8 4 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
9 3 (4.41%) Agile
9 3 (4.41%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (4.41%) Investment Management
9 3 (4.41%) Roadmaps
9 3 (4.41%) Technology Roadmap
10 2 (2.94%) Asset Management
10 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Architecture
10 2 (2.94%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.71%) Python
2 6 (8.82%) Perl
2 6 (8.82%) Tcl
3 1 (1.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 37 (54.41%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (51.47%) CCNP
3 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
4 17 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 14 (20.59%) CCNA
6 9 (13.24%) CCIE
7 7 (10.29%) CCDP
8 6 (8.82%) JNCIA
8 6 (8.82%) JNCIS
9 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.94%) BC Cleared
9 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.94%) CCIP
10 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Firmware
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Ansible
2 5 (7.35%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.41%) Kibana
3 3 (4.41%) Terraform
4 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (88.24%) Cisco
2 32 (47.06%) Palo Alto
3 19 (27.94%) F5
4 17 (25.00%) SolarWinds
5 15 (22.06%) Juniper
6 14 (20.59%) Citrix
7 11 (16.18%) Aruba
8 10 (14.71%) Fortinet
9 7 (10.29%) Arista
9 7 (10.29%) Zscaler
10 5 (7.35%) Infoblox
10 5 (7.35%) Splunk
11 3 (4.41%) Meraki
12 2 (2.94%) Alcatel-Lucent
12 2 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
13 1 (1.47%) ADVA
13 1 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (1.47%) Nokia
13 1 (1.47%) SonicWALL
13 1 (1.47%) VMware