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 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 296 300 350
Rank change year-on-year +4 +50 -7
Contract jobs citing OSPF 89 145 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.63% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.72% 4.17% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 91 97
10th Percentile £313 £338 £257
25th Percentile £353 £403 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £515 £525 £500
90th Percentile £575 £600 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £28.90 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £60.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.35% +158.33% -39.24%
75th Percentile £19.50 £80.25 £32.81
90th Percentile - £80.40 £44.18
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
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 3,273 3,480 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.12% 15.12% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,855 2,191 2,661
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £348 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 308 244
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.94
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -7.37%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £73.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

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 18 May 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 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
South East +23 38 £450 -10.00% 23
North of England +37 33 £425 +1.49% 21
North West +24 29 £475 +18.75% 13
Midlands +23 6 £575 -6.12% 5
South West -16 6 £488 - 5
East of England +3 4 £375 +7.14% 4
North East - 4 £385 - 1
West Midlands +20 3 - - 3
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 2
Scotland +18 2 £500 +1.01% 9
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 (2.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.10%) Azure
2 13 (14.61%) AWS
3 4 (4.49%) GCP
4 2 (2.25%) GitHub
4 2 (2.25%) IaaS
4 2 (2.25%) PaaS
4 2 (2.25%) SaaS
5 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 74 (83.15%) BGP
2 49 (55.06%) EIGRP
3 45 (50.56%) Firewall
4 36 (40.45%) VPN
5 28 (31.46%) Cisco ASA
6 26 (29.21%) IPsec
7 23 (25.84%) WAN
8 22 (24.72%) DMVPN
9 21 (23.60%) Cisco Firepower
9 21 (23.60%) LAN
10 19 (21.35%) MPLS
11 18 (20.22%) Spanning Tree
12 17 (19.10%) Cisco ISE
12 17 (19.10%) HSRP
12 17 (19.10%) TCP/IP
13 16 (17.98%) SNMP
14 15 (16.85%) VLAN
14 15 (16.85%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (14.61%) Cisco Nexus
15 13 (14.61%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) JIRA
1 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.49%) Finance
4 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (65.17%) Network Engineer
2 17 (19.10%) Network Specialist
3 12 (13.48%) Senior
3 12 (13.48%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (11.24%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Architect
6 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Network Operations Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Network Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Cisco Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Lead
10 3 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Network Technical Architect
10 3 (3.37%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.48%) Jinja
2 4 (4.49%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.12%) CMDB
2 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.12%) IoT
2 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.12%) PKI
2 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.36%) Linux
2 9 (10.11%) Windows
3 2 (2.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.34%) Network Design
2 19 (21.35%) Change Management
2 19 (21.35%) ITIL
3 17 (19.10%) Network Management
3 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (15.73%) DevOps
5 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (14.61%) ITSM
6 8 (8.99%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (7.87%) Customer Service
7 7 (7.87%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (6.74%) Computer Science
9 5 (5.62%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (5.62%) High Availability
9 5 (5.62%) Mentoring
10 4 (4.49%) Prototyping
10 4 (4.49%) Roadmaps
10 4 (4.49%) Technology Roadmap
11 3 (3.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (3.37%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.10%) Python
2 12 (13.48%) Perl
2 12 (13.48%) Tcl
3 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 55 (61.80%) Security Cleared
2 44 (49.44%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (38.20%) CCNA
4 31 (34.83%) CCNP
5 30 (33.71%) SC Cleared
6 22 (24.72%) DV Cleared
7 10 (11.24%) JNCIA
8 8 (8.99%) JNCIS
9 6 (6.74%) Degree
10 5 (5.62%) CCIE
11 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (4.49%) VCAP
12 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
12 2 (2.25%) CCDP
13 1 (1.12%) BC Cleared
13 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (1.12%) CCIP
13 1 (1.12%) GIAC
13 1 (1.12%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) HIPAA
1 3 (3.37%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 13 (14.61%) Firmware
2 8 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.87%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.25%) Docker
5 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (30.34%) FortiGate
2 14 (15.73%) Ansible
3 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.37%) Puppet
3 3 (3.37%) Terraform
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.12%) Observium
4 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 66 (74.16%) Cisco
2 41 (46.07%) Juniper
3 29 (32.58%) Fortinet
4 23 (25.84%) Palo Alto
5 21 (23.60%) SolarWinds
6 13 (14.61%) Citrix
6 13 (14.61%) F5
7 9 (10.11%) VMware
8 4 (4.49%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (3.37%) Zscaler
10 2 (2.25%) Forcepoint
10 2 (2.25%) Splunk
11 1 (1.12%) ADVA
11 1 (1.12%) Alcatel-Lucent
11 1 (1.12%) Aruba
11 1 (1.12%) Barracuda Networks
11 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.12%) Oracle
11 1 (1.12%) Red Hat