OSPF Contracts in the City of London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring OSPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OSPF over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 123 159
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 +19
Contract jobs citing OSPF 3 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.14% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% 1.42% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £471
25th Percentile £619 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £617
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.40%
75th Percentile £656 - £775
90th Percentile - - £805
Central London median daily rate £500 - £617
% change year-on-year - - +20.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 168 211 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.56% 9.60% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 250
10th Percentile £258 £206 £248
25th Percentile £475 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £744 £775 £751
Central London median daily rate £540 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for OSPF in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Police
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) VMware