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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 250 308
Rank change year-on-year -64 +58 +155
Contract jobs citing OSPF 62 107 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.74% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.89% 7.45% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 63 53
10th Percentile £351 £355 £323
25th Percentile £442 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -8.89% +17.80%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £730
90th Percentile £636 £771 £860
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +3.96%
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 - £32.50 £33.72
% change year-on-year - -3.62% +2.18%

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 1,268 1,436 1,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.79% 9.91% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 881 1,267
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 59
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £27.25 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £75.31 £76.50
England median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +5.00% -38.04% +50.64%

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 2 January 2026.

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 2 January 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
Central London -1 6 £625 -8.26% 3
West London - 4 £400 - 1
South London -7 2 - -
East London +1 1 - - 2
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 4 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.84%) Confluence
3 2 (3.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.97%) Azure
2 9 (14.52%) AWS
3 4 (6.45%) GCP
4 3 (4.84%) Akamai
4 3 (4.84%) Route 53
4 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.61%) IaaS
6 1 (1.61%) PaaS
6 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (100.00%) BGP
2 43 (69.35%) Firewall
3 28 (45.16%) WAN
4 21 (33.87%) Network Security
5 20 (32.26%) VPN
6 16 (25.81%) IPsec
6 16 (25.81%) SD-WAN
7 15 (24.19%) LAN
8 14 (22.58%) EIGRP
9 13 (20.97%) MPLS
10 12 (19.35%) Cisco Nexus
10 12 (19.35%) DNS
10 12 (19.35%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (17.74%) TCP/IP
12 10 (16.13%) VXLAN
12 10 (16.13%) Wireless
13 9 (14.52%) Cisco IOS
13 9 (14.52%) Ethernet VPN
14 8 (12.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 8 (12.90%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) GitLab
3 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Public Sector
3 11 (17.74%) Finance
4 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Retail
5 3 (4.84%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.84%) Military
5 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (72.58%) Network Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Cisco Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Senior
3 8 (12.90%) Architect
4 7 (11.29%) Juniper Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Network Security Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Security Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Consultant
6 5 (8.06%) Network Architect
6 5 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.06%) WAN Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Lead
7 4 (6.45%) Network Specialist
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Network Specialist
8 3 (4.84%) Lead Network Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) 802.1X
2 4 (6.45%) Jinja
2 4 (6.45%) VML
3 3 (4.84%) SAML
4 1 (1.61%) CSS
4 1 (1.61%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.26%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.90%) PKI
3 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.61%) SCADA
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Windows
2 4 (6.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.81%) Migration
2 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (14.52%) ITIL
4 9 (14.52%) Load Balancing
4 9 (14.52%) Network Monitoring
5 8 (12.90%) Agile
5 8 (12.90%) Change Management
5 8 (12.90%) Kalman Filter
6 7 (11.29%) High Availability
7 6 (9.68%) Change Control
7 6 (9.68%) DevOps
7 6 (9.68%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (8.06%) Low Latency
8 5 (8.06%) Performance Management
8 5 (8.06%) Runbook
8 5 (8.06%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (35.48%) Python
2 7 (11.29%) Bash
3 5 (8.06%) C++
3 5 (8.06%) Perl
4 1 (1.61%) Go
4 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (43.55%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (35.48%) CCNP
3 17 (27.42%) CCIE
4 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
5 11 (17.74%) SC Cleared
6 6 (9.68%) JNCIA
6 6 (9.68%) JNCIE
6 6 (9.68%) JNCIS
7 5 (8.06%) CCSE
7 5 (8.06%) JNCIP
8 3 (4.84%) Degree
9 2 (3.23%) CCNA
9 2 (3.23%) CISSP
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.61%) CCDE
10 1 (1.61%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.61%) CCSA
10 1 (1.61%) CWNA
10 1 (1.61%) GIAC
10 1 (1.61%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) SLA
2 1 (1.61%) GDPR
2 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) NIST
2 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Firmware
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.84%) Docker
3 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.23%) KVM
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (33.87%) Ansible
2 10 (16.13%) FortiGate
3 9 (14.52%) Terraform
4 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (70.97%) Cisco
2 23 (37.10%) Juniper
3 20 (32.26%) Fortinet
4 18 (29.03%) F5
5 15 (24.19%) Arista
5 15 (24.19%) Palo Alto
6 13 (20.97%) CheckPoint
7 10 (16.13%) Zscaler
8 8 (12.90%) Aruba
8 8 (12.90%) Meraki
9 6 (9.68%) ServiceNow
10 5 (8.06%) Remedy
11 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
11 4 (6.45%) SolarWinds
11 4 (6.45%) Splunk
12 3 (4.84%) Extreme Networks
12 3 (4.84%) VMware
13 2 (3.23%) Dell
13 2 (3.23%) NVIDIA
14 1 (1.61%) EMC