OSPF Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.55% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £420 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 16 37 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 8.84% 20.90% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 4
10th Percentile £406 £250 £242
25th Percentile £436 £425 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £290
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +82.76% -37.30%
75th Percentile £518 £625 £367
90th Percentile £535 £700 £469
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £508 £538
% change year-on-year -3.94% -5.58% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £21.54 £63.00 -
25th Percentile £28.15 £63.75 £52.50
Median hourly rate £42.44 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.37% +27.27% +227.97%
75th Percentile £59.72 £81.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £68.14 £85.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.12 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +5.03% - -8.01%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in Cambridge

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing OSPF

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco