OSPF Contracts in London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 398 504
Rank change year-on-year +91 +106 -101
Contract jobs citing OSPF 88 96 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.29% 3.73% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 48 70
10th Percentile £323 £413 £374
25th Percentile £375 £474 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £659 £568
90th Percentile £820 £830 £725
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.63
25th Percentile £23.25 - £25.81
Median hourly rate £23.50 - £27.25
75th Percentile £23.75 - £29.31
90th Percentile - - £29.88
England median hourly rate £21.25 £62.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -65.73% +127.52% -31.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,663 2,577 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.96% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,810 2,529
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +3.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 84
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £36.27 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +7.47% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £47.69
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OSPF in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +42 3 £500 -26.85% 10
East London - 1 - - 4
OSPF
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 7 (7.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (30.68%) AWS
2 24 (27.27%) Azure
3 11 (12.50%) GCP
4 5 (5.68%) OCI
5 3 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.14%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.14%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 84 (95.45%) BGP
2 64 (72.73%) Firewall
3 55 (62.50%) LAN
3 55 (62.50%) WAN
4 45 (51.14%) VPN
5 39 (44.32%) Wireless
6 35 (39.77%) IPsec
7 34 (38.64%) MPLS
8 28 (31.82%) Cisco Nexus
8 28 (31.82%) Network Security
9 27 (30.68%) Cisco ASA
9 27 (30.68%) EIGRP
10 25 (28.41%) SD-WAN
11 24 (27.27%) DNS
12 21 (23.86%) DHCP
13 17 (19.32%) TCP/IP
13 17 (19.32%) VLAN
14 15 (17.05%) WLAN
15 14 (15.91%) VXLAN
16 13 (14.77%) HSRP
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (5.68%) Git
General
1 27 (30.68%) Finance
2 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.82%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.41%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Aviation
8 1 (1.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (69.32%) Network Engineer
2 13 (14.77%) Network Specialist
3 12 (13.64%) Senior
4 8 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Network Security Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) IP Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) IP Network Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Juniper Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.27%) Jinja
2 2 (2.27%) JSON
2 2 (2.27%) NETCONF
2 2 (2.27%) RESTful
2 2 (2.27%) XML
2 2 (2.27%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) Data Centre
2 14 (15.91%) PKI
3 5 (5.68%) Clustering
3 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.41%) CCTV
4 3 (3.41%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Windows
2 4 (4.55%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.73%) Change Management
1 20 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (11.36%) Migration
3 10 (11.36%) Network Architecture
3 10 (11.36%) Threat Management
4 9 (10.23%) Load Balancing
4 9 (10.23%) Network Design
5 8 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (9.09%) High Availability
5 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
6 7 (7.95%) Network Monitoring
6 7 (7.95%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (6.82%) Agile
7 6 (6.82%) ITSM
7 6 (6.82%) Predictive Analysis
7 6 (6.82%) Problem Management
7 6 (6.82%) Runbook
8 5 (5.68%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) Python
2 3 (3.41%) Perl
2 3 (3.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (46.59%) Cisco Certification
2 39 (44.32%) CCNP
3 14 (15.91%) CCNA
4 12 (13.64%) CCIE
5 10 (11.36%) SC Cleared
5 10 (11.36%) Security Cleared
6 7 (7.95%) Degree
7 6 (6.82%) AWS Certification
7 6 (6.82%) CCDP
8 5 (5.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.14%) BC Cleared
10 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.14%) CCIP
10 1 (1.14%) CCSE
10 1 (1.14%) CCSP
10 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) SLA
2 2 (2.27%) NCSC
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Firmware
2 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Ansible
1 8 (9.09%) Terraform
2 7 (7.95%) FortiGate
3 6 (6.82%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (3.41%) Kibana
5 2 (2.27%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (1.14%) CASB
6 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (86.36%) Cisco
2 46 (52.27%) Palo Alto
3 30 (34.09%) F5
4 21 (23.86%) Juniper
5 20 (22.73%) Fortinet
6 17 (19.32%) CheckPoint
7 14 (15.91%) Infoblox
8 11 (12.50%) Aruba
9 10 (11.36%) SolarWinds
10 9 (10.23%) Meraki
11 8 (9.09%) Arista
11 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
12 7 (7.95%) Extreme Networks
12 7 (7.95%) Zscaler
13 6 (6.82%) Google
13 6 (6.82%) Nokia
14 3 (3.41%) Dell
14 3 (3.41%) Huawei
14 3 (3.41%) Splunk
15 2 (2.27%) Ericsson