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 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 285 323 443
Rank change year-on-year +38 +120 -21
Contract jobs citing OSPF 60 131 174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.53% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.91% 4.61% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 85 140
10th Percentile £335 £363 £348
25th Percentile £350 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £541 £619 £550
90th Percentile £559 - £616
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £18.98 £27.60 £22.35
25th Percentile £19.69 £65.06 £24.38
Median hourly rate £21.25 £78.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.93% +201.92% -
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.44 £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
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 1,533 2,844 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.54% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,882 2,941
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +19.69% +17.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

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 18 May 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) AWS
1 9 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (3.33%) GCP
2 2 (3.33%) GitHub
2 2 (3.33%) IaaS
2 2 (3.33%) PaaS
2 2 (3.33%) SaaS
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 59 (98.33%) BGP
2 38 (63.33%) Firewall
3 25 (41.67%) Cisco ASA
4 24 (40.00%) WAN
5 21 (35.00%) EIGRP
6 20 (33.33%) VPN
7 19 (31.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 19 (31.67%) IPsec
8 18 (30.00%) LAN
8 18 (30.00%) MPLS
8 18 (30.00%) SD-WAN
9 13 (21.67%) Network Security
9 13 (21.67%) SNMP
10 12 (20.00%) TCP/IP
11 11 (18.33%) DNS
11 11 (18.33%) NX-OS
11 11 (18.33%) Wireless
12 10 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (15.00%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (15.00%) HSRP
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 21 (35.00%) Finance
2 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) German Language
Job Titles
1 44 (73.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Senior
3 7 (11.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Architect
4 5 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 5 (8.33%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Implementation Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Network Specialist
5 3 (5.00%) Network Technical Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Test Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Design Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Senior Design Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Support Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Jinja
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.33%) Clustering
3 3 (5.00%) PKI
4 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) IoT
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Debian
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
1 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Change Management
2 10 (16.67%) High Availability
3 9 (15.00%) ITIL
3 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (13.33%) DevOps
5 7 (11.67%) ITSM
5 7 (11.67%) Load Balancing
5 7 (11.67%) Migration
5 7 (11.67%) Network Design
5 7 (11.67%) Network Management
6 5 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (5.00%) Agile
7 3 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (5.00%) Investment Management
7 3 (5.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (5.00%) Technology Roadmap
8 2 (3.33%) CI/CD
8 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (3.33%) Planning and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Python
2 6 (10.00%) Perl
2 6 (10.00%) Tcl
3 1 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 36 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (58.33%) CCNP
3 14 (23.33%) CCNA
4 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 9 (15.00%) CCIE
6 7 (11.67%) CCDP
6 7 (11.67%) JNCIS
7 6 (10.00%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.33%) BC Cleared
8 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.33%) CCIP
9 1 (1.67%) Degree
9 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Firmware
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Ansible
2 5 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 3 (5.00%) Kibana
3 3 (5.00%) Terraform
4 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.67%) Icinga
5 1 (1.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 51 (85.00%) Cisco
2 25 (41.67%) Palo Alto
3 18 (30.00%) F5
4 16 (26.67%) Juniper
5 10 (16.67%) Aruba
5 10 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 10 (16.67%) SolarWinds
6 7 (11.67%) Arista
6 7 (11.67%) Citrix
6 7 (11.67%) Zscaler
7 5 (8.33%) Infoblox
7 5 (8.33%) Splunk
8 3 (5.00%) Meraki
9 2 (3.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 2 (3.33%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.67%) MikroTik
10 1 (1.67%) Nokia
10 1 (1.67%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.67%) VMware
10 1 (1.67%) ZyXEL