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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 259 303
Rank change year-on-year -57 +44 +160
Contract jobs citing OSPF 73 110 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.73% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.68% 7.25% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 67 63
10th Percentile £353 £250 £351
25th Percentile £408 £376 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £798
90th Percentile £618 £751 £900
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +9.62%
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 £33.44
% change year-on-year - -2.81% +1.33%

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 1,286 1,517 2,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.02% 10.01% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 933 1,359
10th Percentile £311 £256 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 13 56
10th Percentile £20.76 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +35.92% +3.00%
75th Percentile £33.19 £43.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £62.35 £76.91 £76.88
England median hourly rate £34.50 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -15.85% -27.36% +26.28%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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
West London -9 9 £400 -16.83%
Central London +3 8 £575 -20.96% 3
South London -4 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 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
3 2 (2.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.44%) AWS
1 12 (16.44%) Azure
2 6 (8.22%) Akamai
3 4 (5.48%) GCP
4 2 (2.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.37%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) PaaS
5 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (100.00%) BGP
2 51 (69.86%) Firewall
3 33 (45.21%) WAN
4 27 (36.99%) Network Security
4 27 (36.99%) VPN
5 22 (30.14%) SD-WAN
6 19 (26.03%) DNS
6 19 (26.03%) EIGRP
6 19 (26.03%) IPsec
7 17 (23.29%) LAN
8 16 (21.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 15 (20.55%) Cisco Nexus
9 15 (20.55%) MPLS
10 12 (16.44%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (16.44%) VLAN
10 12 (16.44%) VXLAN
10 12 (16.44%) Wireless
11 11 (15.07%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (15.07%) SSL
11 11 (15.07%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Git
2 3 (4.11%) GitLab
2 3 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.81%) Finance
3 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Retail
6 3 (4.11%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.74%) Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Military
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (69.86%) Network Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Cisco Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Senior
4 10 (13.70%) Juniper Engineer
5 9 (12.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Architect
6 8 (10.96%) Network Security Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Security Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) Consultant
8 5 (6.85%) Network Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Network Specialist
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Network Specialist
8 5 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.85%) WAN Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Network Consultant
10 3 (4.11%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) Jinja
1 4 (5.48%) VML
2 3 (4.11%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (32.88%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.96%) PKI
3 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.37%) SCADA
4 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.55%) Migration
2 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.81%) Network Monitoring
4 11 (15.07%) Change Management
5 10 (13.70%) High Availability
5 10 (13.70%) Network Segmentation
6 9 (12.33%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (12.33%) Load Balancing
7 8 (10.96%) Agile
7 8 (10.96%) ITIL
8 7 (9.59%) DevOps
8 7 (9.59%) Low Latency
8 7 (9.59%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (8.22%) Change Control
9 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (6.85%) Configuration Management
10 5 (6.85%) Runbook
10 5 (6.85%) Security Architecture
11 4 (5.48%) Network Design
11 4 (5.48%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.62%) Python
2 8 (10.96%) Bash
3 6 (8.22%) C++
3 6 (8.22%) Perl
4 1 (1.37%) Go
4 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (47.95%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (41.10%) CCNP
3 18 (24.66%) CCIE
4 11 (15.07%) Security Cleared
5 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
6 6 (8.22%) CCSA
6 6 (8.22%) JNCIA
6 6 (8.22%) JNCIE
6 6 (8.22%) JNCIS
7 5 (6.85%) CCSE
7 5 (6.85%) JNCIP
8 3 (4.11%) CCNA
8 3 (4.11%) Degree
9 2 (2.74%) CISSP
10 1 (1.37%) CCDE
10 1 (1.37%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.37%) CWNA
10 1 (1.37%) GIAC
10 1 (1.37%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) SLA
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) NIST
2 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (15.07%) Firmware
2 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.11%) Docker
3 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.74%) KVM
3 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (34.25%) Ansible
2 12 (16.44%) FortiGate
3 9 (12.33%) Terraform
4 4 (5.48%) CA Spectrum
5 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (78.08%) Cisco
2 33 (45.21%) Juniper
3 27 (36.99%) F5
4 22 (30.14%) Fortinet
5 19 (26.03%) CheckPoint
6 18 (24.66%) Arista
7 13 (17.81%) Meraki
7 13 (17.81%) Palo Alto
8 12 (16.44%) SolarWinds
9 10 (13.70%) Zscaler
10 7 (9.59%) Aruba
11 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
11 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow
12 5 (6.85%) Remedy
13 3 (4.11%) Extreme Networks
13 3 (4.11%) Splunk
13 3 (4.11%) VMware
14 2 (2.74%) Dell
14 2 (2.74%) LogicMonitor
14 2 (2.74%) NVIDIA