OSPF Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 7 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.01% 2.17% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.59% 12.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile £511 £524 -
25th Percentile £513 £560 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £599 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% - -
75th Percentile £550 £626 -
90th Percentile £556 £630 -
South East median daily rate £445 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -25.83% +33.33% -13.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

OSPF falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 73 50 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.49% 18.12% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 32 76
10th Percentile £197 £153 £203
25th Percentile £458 £375 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -3.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £630 £591
90th Percentile £643 £656 £825
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 19
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.51
Median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +153.52% -40.83% -
75th Percentile - - £39.38
90th Percentile - - £48.75
South East median hourly rate £42.71 £54.88 £57.35
% change year-on-year -22.18% -4.32% +27.44%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OSPF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

OSPF job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing OSPF

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing OSPF

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 27 March 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -19 6 £525 -9.87% 2
OSPF
South East

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) WAN
3 5 (71.43%) IPsec
3 5 (71.43%) Wireless
4 4 (57.14%) BIG-IP
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (57.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (57.14%) ICMP
4 4 (57.14%) Network Security
4 4 (57.14%) NGFW
4 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
5 3 (42.86%) LAN
5 3 (42.86%) MPLS
5 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
5 3 (42.86%) VPN
6 2 (28.57%) EIGRP
7 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (71.43%) Security Operations
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (57.14%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) ITSM
4 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (42.86%) Service Management
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 1 (14.29%) Network Management
6 1 (14.29%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) CCDA
3 1 (14.29%) CCDP
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) CCIP
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) CASB
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) F5
4 3 (42.86%) Zscaler
5 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (14.29%) Arista
6 1 (14.29%) Aruba
6 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
6 1 (14.29%) HP
6 1 (14.29%) Juniper
6 1 (14.29%) Meraki
6 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds