OSPF Contract Job Trends in London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 285 328
Rank change year-on-year -16 +43 +162
Contract jobs citing OSPF 77 107 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.84% 7.02% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 60
10th Percentile £369 £250 £352
25th Percentile £434 £363 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £575 £666 £745
90th Percentile £663 £750 £878
England median daily rate £493 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £31.63 £26.58
25th Percentile - £32.19 £30.06
Median hourly rate - £33.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year - -5.59% -30.48%
75th Percentile - £34.69 £49.88
90th Percentile - £34.88 £69.90
England median hourly rate £57.50 £33.75 £33.22
% change year-on-year +70.37% +1.60% +0.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,319 1,525 2,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.38% 9.58% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 944 1,451
10th Percentile £300 £261 £233
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £704 £725 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 15 55
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.67 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.13 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% +49.06% +6.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £50.25 £60.88
90th Percentile £61.78 £75.92 £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -29.98% -14.04% +25.53%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in London

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OSPF

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in London over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in London

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OSPF

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the London region over the 6 months to 23 November 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
Central London +12 11 £600 -11.93% 5
West London -4 9 £400 -16.83%
South London -5 2 - -
East London +3 1 - -
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) nginx
2 2 (2.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.78%) AWS
2 14 (18.18%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) Akamai
4 6 (7.79%) GCP
5 3 (3.90%) SaaS
6 2 (2.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.60%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.30%) IaaS
7 1 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (100.00%) BGP
2 55 (71.43%) Firewall
3 33 (42.86%) WAN
4 27 (35.06%) Network Security
5 26 (33.77%) VPN
6 23 (29.87%) SD-WAN
7 21 (27.27%) IPsec
8 19 (24.68%) DNS
8 19 (24.68%) MPLS
9 18 (23.38%) LAN
10 16 (20.78%) EIGRP
10 16 (20.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 15 (19.48%) VLAN
12 13 (16.88%) Cisco ISE
12 13 (16.88%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (16.88%) VXLAN
13 12 (15.58%) Ethernet VPN
13 12 (15.58%) Multicast
13 12 (15.58%) Wireless
13 12 (15.58%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) GitLab
2 3 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.38%) Finance
3 11 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.39%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Banking
5 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.60%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Law
8 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 17 (22.08%) Cisco Engineer
2 17 (22.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 13 (16.88%) Senior
4 12 (15.58%) Juniper Engineer
5 10 (12.99%) Senior Network Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Network Security Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Security Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Architect
7 7 (9.09%) WAN Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Consultant
9 5 (6.49%) Network Specialist
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Network Specialist
9 5 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Network Architect
10 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) Jinja
2 3 (3.90%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.90%) SAML
3 1 (1.30%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.87%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.39%) PKI
3 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.60%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.60%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.30%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.30%) SCADA
4 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
1 5 (6.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.08%) Network Monitoring
2 15 (19.48%) Network Segmentation
3 14 (18.18%) Migration
4 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (14.29%) Change Control
5 11 (14.29%) Change Management
5 11 (14.29%) High Availability
6 9 (11.69%) Agile
6 9 (11.69%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (11.69%) Low Latency
7 8 (10.39%) ITIL
8 7 (9.09%) DevOps
8 7 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (7.79%) Load Balancing
9 6 (7.79%) Network Design
10 5 (6.49%) CI/CD
10 5 (6.49%) Patch Management
10 5 (6.49%) Zero Trust
11 4 (5.19%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 29 (37.66%) Python
2 8 (10.39%) Bash
3 6 (7.79%) C++
3 6 (7.79%) Perl
4 1 (1.30%) Go
4 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (44.16%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (36.36%) CCNP
3 15 (19.48%) CCIE
4 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
6 8 (10.39%) JNCIA
7 7 (9.09%) JNCIS
8 6 (7.79%) CCSA
9 5 (6.49%) JNCIE
10 4 (5.19%) CCSE
10 4 (5.19%) JNCIP
11 3 (3.90%) CCNA
11 3 (3.90%) Degree
12 2 (2.60%) CISSP
12 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
13 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
13 1 (1.30%) CCDE
13 1 (1.30%) CCIE Data Center
13 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (1.30%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) SLA
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) NIST
2 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Firmware
2 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.19%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.90%) Docker
4 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.60%) KVM
Systems Management
1 29 (37.66%) Ansible
2 13 (16.88%) FortiGate
3 8 (10.39%) Terraform
4 4 (5.19%) CA Spectrum
5 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.60%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.30%) Icinga
7 1 (1.30%) Nagios
7 1 (1.30%) Observium
Vendors
1 58 (75.32%) Cisco
2 35 (45.45%) Juniper
3 28 (36.36%) Fortinet
4 27 (35.06%) F5
5 20 (25.97%) Arista
6 16 (20.78%) Palo Alto
7 15 (19.48%) CheckPoint
8 14 (18.18%) SolarWinds
9 10 (12.99%) Meraki
10 9 (11.69%) Zscaler
11 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
12 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
12 5 (6.49%) VMware
13 4 (5.19%) Remedy
14 3 (3.90%) Aruba
14 3 (3.90%) Extreme Networks
14 3 (3.90%) Splunk
15 2 (2.60%) Dell
15 2 (2.60%) LogicMonitor
15 2 (2.60%) NVIDIA