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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 117 161
Rank change year-on-year +6 +44 +32
Contract jobs citing OSPF 9 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.33% 2.29% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £436 - £491
25th Percentile £546 £475 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £513 £750
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% -31.67% +82.93%
75th Percentile £700 £541 £800
90th Percentile £730 £548 £808
Central London median daily rate £615 £513 £684
% change year-on-year +19.90% -25.02% +30.56%

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 169 218 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.66% 10.14% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 138 234
10th Percentile £258 £211 £215
25th Percentile £423 £350 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.56% +4.17%
75th Percentile £661 £634 £675
90th Percentile £748 £779 £776
Central London median daily rate £543 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +20.56% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -47.67%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -46.75%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
2 5 (55.56%) Firewall
3 4 (44.44%) Multicast
3 4 (44.44%) WAN
4 3 (33.33%) Unicast
5 2 (22.22%) LAN
5 2 (22.22%) MPLS
5 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
6 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
6 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (11.11%) IGMP
6 1 (11.11%) Network Security
6 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (11.11%) VLAN
6 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Military
5 1 (11.11%) Police
5 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) WAN Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Network Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Change Control
2 3 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Business Case
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
3 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Time Management
3 2 (22.22%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Network Design
4 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (44.44%) CCIE
2 4 (44.44%) CCNP
3 2 (22.22%) JNCIS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Icinga
2 1 (11.11%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Observium
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Fortinet
2 4 (44.44%) Arista
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco
3 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 2 (22.22%) F5
5 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 1 (11.11%) Juniper
5 1 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft