OSPF Contract Job Trends in Central London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 122 139
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 +53
Contract jobs citing OSPF 16 9 14
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.86% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.20% 3.44% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 10
10th Percentile £445 £475 £435
25th Percentile £531 £503 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 £630 £559
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +12.80% +62.47%
75th Percentile £682 £747 £697
90th Percentile £700 £783 £763
London median daily rate £493 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -1.50% -16.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
London median hourly rate £38.75 £33.75 £58.63
% change year-on-year +14.81% -42.43% +105.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 174 262 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.36% 11.18% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 167 196
10th Percentile £250 £283 £235
25th Percentile £406 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% - -
75th Percentile £664 £638 £616
90th Percentile £738 £740 £700
London median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £21.25 - £26.38
25th Percentile £22.86 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £24.99 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.12% -33.33% +132.14%
75th Percentile £35.50 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £53.54 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -38.66% +43.23% +19.72%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in Central London

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OSPF

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in Central London over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OSPF

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. 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
City of London +14 13 £657 +4.21% 12
City of Westminster - 2 - -
OSPF
London

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) BGP
2 9 (56.25%) Firewall
3 8 (50.00%) MPLS
4 6 (37.50%) Multicast
4 6 (37.50%) WAN
5 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
6 4 (25.00%) Unicast
7 3 (18.75%) DNS
7 3 (18.75%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (18.75%) VXLAN
8 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (12.50%) DHCP
8 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
8 2 (12.50%) LAN
8 2 (12.50%) Network Security
8 2 (12.50%) NX-OS
8 2 (12.50%) VLAN
8 2 (12.50%) VPN
8 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
9 1 (6.25%) 5G
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (37.50%) Banking
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) WAN Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Network Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Jinja
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Change Control
2 3 (18.75%) Business Case
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
2 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Time Management
3 2 (12.50%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (6.25%) Change Management
4 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (6.25%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.25%) High Availability
4 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (6.25%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (6.25%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (43.75%) CCNP
3 6 (37.50%) CCIE
4 2 (12.50%) JNCIS
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CCNA
5 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Icinga
2 1 (6.25%) Nagios
2 1 (6.25%) Observium
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Arista
2 7 (43.75%) Cisco
3 5 (31.25%) Fortinet
4 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
6 2 (12.50%) F5
6 2 (12.50%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 1 (6.25%) Citrix
7 1 (6.25%) Dell
7 1 (6.25%) ForeScout
7 1 (6.25%) Juniper
7 1 (6.25%) Meraki
7 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (6.25%) Splunk
7 1 (6.25%) VMware
7 1 (6.25%) Zscaler