OSPF Contracts in England

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 359 436
Rank change year-on-year +96 +77 +86
Contract jobs citing OSPF 225 187 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.21% 3.88% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 141 124
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £431 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £620
90th Percentile £661 £600 £696
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £499
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile £37.00 £18.98 £18.50
25th Percentile £38.13 £19.69 £60.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £21.25 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.24% -65.73% +138.46%
75th Percentile £49.38 £22.69 £80.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £23.33 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +70.21% -69.87% +200.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,122 4,823 5,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.09% 13.17% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,948 2,910 3,881
10th Percentile £220 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £650
90th Percentile £675 £694 £738
UK median daily rate £484 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -3.20% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 387 412
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.02 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.07 £40.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +131.45% -27.72%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.32 £70.26 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +116.22% -32.73%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSPF in England.

Daily rate trend for OSPF in England

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in England.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OSPF in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for OSPF in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
London +67 110 £500 +1.27% 89
North of England +28 47 £500 +17.65% 50
North West +18 44 £500 +5.26% 20
South East +34 26 £475 +5.56% 98
Midlands +28 17 £543 -5.65% 42
South West +55 16 £588 +20.51% 27
West Midlands +17 11 £335 - 25
East Midlands +7 6 £605 +5.22% 15
East of England +29 4 £400 +6.67% 27
North East -3 1 £250 -35.06% 6
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 25
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UK

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.33%) Confluence
1 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (18.67%) AWS
2 27 (12.00%) Azure
3 9 (4.00%) GCP
4 5 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.22%) OpenShift
5 4 (1.78%) GitHub
6 3 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) Akamai
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.44%) Datadog
8 1 (0.44%) IaaS
8 1 (0.44%) npm
8 1 (0.44%) PaaS
8 1 (0.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 219 (97.33%) BGP
2 142 (63.11%) Firewall
3 95 (42.22%) VPN
4 77 (34.22%) EIGRP
4 77 (34.22%) Network Security
5 72 (32.00%) IPsec
5 72 (32.00%) WAN
6 67 (29.78%) MPLS
7 63 (28.00%) HSRP
8 53 (23.56%) VLAN
9 40 (17.78%) SD-WAN
10 39 (17.33%) TCP/IP
11 38 (16.89%) DNS
11 38 (16.89%) LAN
11 38 (16.89%) Multicast
12 34 (15.11%) Cisco Nexus
13 33 (14.67%) Cisco IOS
14 31 (13.78%) Cisco ASA
15 29 (12.89%) Cisco Firepower
16 25 (11.11%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 10 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.78%) GitLab
3 3 (1.33%) JIRA
4 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (12.44%) Finance
4 24 (10.67%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.11%) Banking
6 14 (6.22%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.78%) Military
10 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Advertising
11 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Law
11 2 (0.89%) Marketing
11 2 (0.89%) Retail
12 1 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 145 (64.44%) Network Engineer
2 23 (10.22%) Architect
2 23 (10.22%) Cisco Engineer
2 23 (10.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 18 (8.00%) Senior
4 15 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 14 (6.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 13 (5.78%) Implementation Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) Principal Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) Principal Network Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (4.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 9 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
8 9 (4.00%) Security Engineer
8 9 (4.00%) WAN Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Consultant
9 8 (3.56%) Core Network Engineer
10 6 (2.67%) Deployment Engineer
10 6 (2.67%) Network Consultant
10 6 (2.67%) Network Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.44%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.22%) Spine.js
3 2 (0.89%) JSON
3 2 (0.89%) REST
3 2 (0.89%) XML
3 2 (0.89%) YAML
4 1 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.89%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.22%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.78%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.78%) PKI
5 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.89%) Derivative
6 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.89%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.44%) CMDB
7 1 (0.44%) FMCG
7 1 (0.44%) Life Science
7 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.44%) SCADA
7 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.11%) Linux
2 6 (2.67%) Check Point GAiA
3 5 (2.22%) CatOS
4 4 (1.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
2 37 (16.44%) Migration
3 35 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (14.22%) ITIL
5 22 (9.78%) High Availability
6 21 (9.33%) Project Delivery
7 20 (8.89%) Service Management
8 18 (8.00%) Change Management
9 17 (7.56%) Network Design
10 16 (7.11%) Network Architecture
10 16 (7.11%) Network Management
10 16 (7.11%) Validation
11 15 (6.67%) Configuration Management
11 15 (6.67%) Low Latency
12 14 (6.22%) Load Balancing
13 13 (5.78%) Matrix Organization
14 12 (5.33%) Computer Science
14 12 (5.33%) SIEM
15 11 (4.89%) ITSM
15 11 (4.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 44 (19.56%) Python
2 6 (2.67%) Bash
3 5 (2.22%) Perl
4 4 (1.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 118 (52.44%) Cisco Certification
2 91 (40.44%) CCNP
3 61 (27.11%) Security Cleared
4 53 (23.56%) SC Cleared
5 38 (16.89%) CCIE
6 24 (10.67%) CCNA
7 21 (9.33%) Degree
8 18 (8.00%) CCSE
9 14 (6.22%) CCSA
10 10 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (4.00%) DV Cleared
12 8 (3.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (2.67%) AWS Certification
13 6 (2.67%) Check Point Certification
13 6 (2.67%) JNCIA
14 5 (2.22%) CCIE Service Provider
14 5 (2.22%) JNCIE
15 3 (1.33%) CCIE Data Center
15 3 (1.33%) JNCIS
15 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (1.78%) NCSC
1 4 (1.78%) NIST
1 4 (1.78%) SLA
2 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 15 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.56%) Firmware
3 5 (2.22%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.78%) Ceph
5 3 (1.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (23.56%) Ansible
2 18 (8.00%) FortiGate
3 10 (4.44%) Nagios
3 10 (4.44%) Terraform
3 10 (4.44%) ZABBIX
4 6 (2.67%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.22%) Puppet
6 4 (1.78%) CA Spectrum
7 3 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.89%) Argo
8 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco LMS
9 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.44%) Icinga
9 1 (0.44%) Netcool
9 1 (0.44%) Observium
9 1 (0.44%) OpenView
9 1 (0.44%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.44%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 185 (82.22%) Cisco
2 62 (27.56%) Palo Alto
3 52 (23.11%) CheckPoint
4 48 (21.33%) Fortinet
5 44 (19.56%) SolarWinds
6 36 (16.00%) Juniper
7 35 (15.56%) Arista
8 27 (12.00%) F5
9 18 (8.00%) VMware
10 17 (7.56%) Meraki
11 9 (4.00%) Aruba
11 9 (4.00%) Nokia
12 8 (3.56%) Microsoft
13 6 (2.67%) Zscaler
14 5 (2.22%) Huawei
14 5 (2.22%) Red Hat
15 4 (1.78%) BMC
15 4 (1.78%) McAfee
15 4 (1.78%) Remedy
15 4 (1.78%) Splunk