OSPF Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 54 67
Rank change year-on-year -27 +13 -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.18% 1.00% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.17% 8.45% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £470 £533
25th Percentile - £528 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +5.22% -
75th Percentile - £666 £594
90th Percentile - £696 £598
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 63 71 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.62% 11.77% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 41 65
10th Percentile £190 £200 £188
25th Percentile £201 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% -11.68% +12.36%
75th Percentile £484 £550 £588
90th Percentile £656 £625 £659
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 15
10th Percentile - - £12.47
25th Percentile £21.33 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £74.00 £13.81 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +435.84% -3.22% -33.57%
75th Percentile - - £26.15
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +128.57%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OSPF

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OSPF

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Derbyshire - 2 - -
OSPF
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet