OSPF Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 111 89 87
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 +19
Contract jobs citing OSPF 3 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.54% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.06% 3.20% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £417 £385 £543
25th Percentile £426 £550 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £700 £563
Median % change year-on-year -36.07% +24.44% +25.00%
75th Percentile £464 - £581
90th Percentile £471 £724 -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -7.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 282 219 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.46% 17.04% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 95 108
10th Percentile £303 £225 £199
25th Percentile £403 £363 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £413
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +26.06% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £695 £583
England median daily rate £500 £490 £505
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 61 65
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.56 £29.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.50 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +26.65% -25.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £41.45 £57.35
% change year-on-year -32.45% -27.72% +1.52%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in the East of England

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £420 - 5
Essex - 1 £475 - 2
Suffolk - 1 - - 2
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) BYOD
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CWNA
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto