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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 239 283
Rank change year-on-year -100 +44 +150
Contract jobs citing OSPF 62 117 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.92% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.59% 8.82% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 67 71
10th Percentile £305 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -3.85% -2.12%
75th Percentile £595 £666 £710
90th Percentile £788 £750 £863
England median daily rate £445 £525 £487
% change year-on-year -15.24% +7.86% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £31.63 £23.55
25th Percentile - £32.19 £24.00
Median hourly rate - £33.75 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.87% +8.77%
75th Percentile - £34.69 £49.88
90th Percentile - £34.88 £69.90
England median hourly rate £71.33 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +119.48% +30.00% -25.37%

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 1,352 1,326 1,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.22% 10.37% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 842 1,194
10th Percentile £260 £263 £205
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £496
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% +0.76% -9.77%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 15 70
10th Percentile £20.31 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.21 £26.54 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% +70.45% -14.43%
75th Percentile £38.75 £48.13 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.75 £57.95 £60.18
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +71.69%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -23 2 £363 -43.14% 5
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 (4.84%) Confluence
1 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.58%) AWS
2 13 (20.97%) Azure
3 7 (11.29%) GCP
3 7 (11.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (8.06%) Route 53
5 3 (4.84%) SaaS
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.61%) IaaS
7 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (100.00%) BGP
2 51 (82.26%) Firewall
3 41 (66.13%) WAN
4 34 (54.84%) Network Security
5 29 (46.77%) LAN
6 19 (30.65%) VPN
7 18 (29.03%) SD-WAN
8 17 (27.42%) EIGRP
8 17 (27.42%) Multicast
9 16 (25.81%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (24.19%) MPLS
11 13 (20.97%) Cisco IOS
12 11 (17.74%) NX-OS
13 10 (16.13%) TCP/IP
13 10 (16.13%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (14.52%) VXLAN
15 8 (12.90%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (12.90%) HSRP
15 8 (12.90%) Wireless
16 7 (11.29%) VRRP
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 17 (27.42%) Finance
2 15 (24.19%) Financial Institution
3 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Banking
4 6 (9.68%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Retail
6 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.84%) Military
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (46.77%) Network Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) Architect
3 12 (19.35%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Network Security Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Data Centre Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Lead
6 3 (4.84%) Lead Network Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Administrator
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Firewall Architect
7 2 (3.23%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Network Operations Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Network Support
7 2 (3.23%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) 802.1X
2 4 (6.45%) Jinja
2 4 (6.45%) VML
3 2 (3.23%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.23%) CSS
3 2 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (1.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (37.10%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.84%) PKI
2 3 (4.84%) SCADA
3 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (1.61%) BYOD
4 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.35%) Change Management
1 12 (19.35%) Load Balancing
1 12 (19.35%) Performance Management
2 11 (17.74%) Migration
2 11 (17.74%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (17.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (14.52%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (12.90%) High Availability
4 8 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
5 7 (11.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (9.68%) Agile
6 6 (9.68%) Break/Fix
6 6 (9.68%) CI/CD
6 6 (9.68%) ITIL
6 6 (9.68%) Network Design
7 5 (8.06%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) Python
2 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (38.71%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (30.65%) CCIE
3 18 (29.03%) CCNP
4 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
5 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.45%) JNCIP
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.84%) CCSE
7 3 (4.84%) CISSP
7 3 (4.84%) Degree
7 3 (4.84%) JNCIE
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.23%) JNCIS
8 2 (3.23%) VCAP
8 2 (3.23%) VCDX
9 1 (1.61%) CCNA
9 1 (1.61%) CWNA
9 1 (1.61%) GSEC
9 1 (1.61%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Firmware
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (24.19%) Ansible
2 9 (14.52%) FortiGate
2 9 (14.52%) Terraform
3 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (74.19%) Cisco
2 24 (38.71%) F5
2 24 (38.71%) Palo Alto
3 20 (32.26%) CheckPoint
4 15 (24.19%) Fortinet
5 13 (20.97%) Arista
6 11 (17.74%) Juniper
7 9 (14.52%) Aruba
7 9 (14.52%) Zscaler
8 6 (9.68%) Meraki
9 4 (6.45%) VMware
10 3 (4.84%) Remedy
10 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
11 2 (3.23%) AVEVA
11 2 (3.23%) Broadcom
11 2 (3.23%) Databricks
11 2 (3.23%) Globalscape
11 2 (3.23%) Netskope
11 2 (3.23%) Solace
11 2 (3.23%) Splunk