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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 235 310
Rank change year-on-year -130 +75 +68
Contract jobs citing OSPF 71 117 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.91% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.70% 8.82% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 64 65
10th Percentile £379 £375 £323
25th Percentile £400 £420 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -2.56% -22.00%
75th Percentile £600 £539 £550
90th Percentile £660 £660 £685
England median daily rate £480 £475 £481
% change year-on-year +1.05% -1.30% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £36.63 -
25th Percentile - £37.19 £23.25
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - +64.89% -
75th Percentile - £39.69 £23.75
90th Percentile - £39.88 -
England median hourly rate £71.17 £40.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +77.91% +88.24% -65.73%

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 1,512 1,326 1,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.85% 10.34% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 854 1,100
10th Percentile £300 £263 £227
25th Percentile £408 £389 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £623
90th Percentile £712 £723 £738
England median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 50
10th Percentile £16.04 £19.07 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £17.09
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.56% -37.81%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £27.88 £41.00 £46.69
% change year-on-year -32.00% -12.19% +125.50%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -26 4 £425 -30.84% 2
West London -29 1 £525 +31.25% 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 2 (2.82%) Confluence
1 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.80%) Azure
2 18 (25.35%) AWS
3 10 (14.08%) GCP
4 5 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) Route 53
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (2.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 71 (100.00%) BGP
2 55 (77.46%) Firewall
3 46 (64.79%) WAN
4 33 (46.48%) Network Security
5 28 (39.44%) LAN
6 24 (33.80%) MPLS
7 22 (30.99%) SD-WAN
7 22 (30.99%) VPN
8 20 (28.17%) Multicast
9 19 (26.76%) VLAN
10 14 (19.72%) EIGRP
11 13 (18.31%) Cisco IOS
12 12 (16.90%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (15.49%) VXLAN
14 10 (14.08%) Wireless
15 9 (12.68%) Ethernet VPN
16 8 (11.27%) DNS
16 8 (11.27%) TCP/IP
17 7 (9.86%) NX-OS
18 6 (8.45%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Git
General
1 23 (32.39%) Finance
2 12 (16.90%) Financial Institution
2 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Telecoms
4 7 (9.86%) Banking
5 6 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.23%) Retail
7 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Military
8 1 (1.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (52.11%) Network Engineer
2 20 (28.17%) Senior
3 13 (18.31%) Architect
4 10 (14.08%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Network Architect
6 5 (7.04%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Data Centre Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Administrator
9 2 (2.82%) AWS Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Designer
9 2 (2.82%) Network Security Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) Jinja
1 4 (5.63%) REST
2 3 (4.23%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.82%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.41%) CSS
4 1 (1.41%) HTML
4 1 (1.41%) LDAP
4 1 (1.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (43.66%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.82%) SCADA
4 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (1.41%) BYOD
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Windows
2 4 (5.63%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.49%) Cloud Security
1 11 (15.49%) Migration
1 11 (15.49%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (14.08%) Low Latency
2 10 (14.08%) Network Design
3 9 (12.68%) AI
3 9 (12.68%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (12.68%) ITIL
3 9 (12.68%) Runbook
3 9 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (12.68%) Zero Trust
4 8 (11.27%) Analytics
4 8 (11.27%) Change Management
4 8 (11.27%) DevOps
4 8 (11.27%) Performance Management
4 8 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (9.86%) Change Control
5 7 (9.86%) Load Balancing
5 7 (9.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.58%) Python
2 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.41%) Bash
3 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (23.94%) CCNP
3 15 (21.13%) CCIE
4 6 (8.45%) Degree
5 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
6 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.23%) CISSP
7 3 (4.23%) JNCIP
8 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.82%) CCIE Security
8 2 (2.82%) CCSE
8 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.82%) JNCIE
8 2 (2.82%) VCAP
8 2 (2.82%) VCDX
9 1 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.41%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (30.99%) Ansible
2 13 (18.31%) Terraform
3 10 (14.08%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.41%) CASB
5 1 (1.41%) QRadar
5 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (71.83%) Cisco
2 28 (39.44%) Palo Alto
3 19 (26.76%) F5
4 18 (25.35%) Fortinet
5 16 (22.54%) Arista
6 13 (18.31%) Juniper
7 12 (16.90%) CheckPoint
8 10 (14.08%) Zscaler
9 5 (7.04%) VMware
10 4 (5.63%) Meraki
11 3 (4.23%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (4.23%) Nokia
11 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.82%) AVEVA
12 2 (2.82%) Citrix
12 2 (2.82%) Databricks
12 2 (2.82%) Google
12 2 (2.82%) Remedy
12 2 (2.82%) SAP
12 2 (2.82%) Solace