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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 251 287
Rank change year-on-year -103 +36 +123
Contract jobs citing OSPF 69 106 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.83% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.92% 7.99% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 60 71
10th Percentile £333 £325 £316
25th Percentile £400 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +2.56% -9.30%
75th Percentile £600 £539 £566
90th Percentile £713 £665 £863
England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.45
25th Percentile - - £23.75
Median hourly rate - - £24.50
75th Percentile - - £31.75
90th Percentile - - £35.95
England median hourly rate £71.17 £19.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +274.55% -22.45% -60.48%

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 1,402 1,327 1,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.00% 10.42% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 858 1,166
10th Percentile £300 £264 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -10.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £614
90th Percentile £700 £729 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 66
10th Percentile £19.93 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £43.75 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.78% +92.31% -50.54%
75th Percentile £29.04 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £88.00 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.60 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -8.39% +111.30%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -15 2 £363 -27.50% 3
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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.19%) Azure
2 15 (21.74%) AWS
3 7 (10.14%) GCP
3 7 (10.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (7.25%) Route 53
5 3 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub
6 2 (2.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (100.00%) BGP
2 56 (81.16%) Firewall
3 44 (63.77%) WAN
4 32 (46.38%) Network Security
5 30 (43.48%) LAN
6 20 (28.99%) Multicast
7 19 (27.54%) VPN
8 18 (26.09%) SD-WAN
9 17 (24.64%) MPLS
10 16 (23.19%) EIGRP
11 15 (21.74%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (20.29%) Cisco IOS
12 14 (20.29%) VLAN
13 10 (14.49%) NX-OS
14 9 (13.04%) TCP/IP
14 9 (13.04%) VXLAN
14 9 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (11.59%) Wireless
16 7 (10.14%) Cisco Nexus
16 7 (10.14%) Ethernet VPN
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (2.90%) GitLab
General
1 20 (28.99%) Finance
2 15 (21.74%) Financial Institution
3 8 (11.59%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.70%) Retail
4 6 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.25%) Banking
5 5 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Military
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (52.17%) Network Engineer
2 16 (23.19%) Senior
3 14 (20.29%) Architect
4 7 (10.14%) Network Architect
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Data Centre Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Lead
6 3 (4.35%) Lead Network Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Network Security Architect
6 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Security Architect
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Data Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Designer
7 2 (2.90%) Firewall Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) 802.1X
2 4 (5.80%) Jinja
2 4 (5.80%) VML
3 3 (4.35%) REST
4 2 (2.90%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.90%) CSS
4 2 (2.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (40.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.90%) PKI
4 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) SCADA
5 1 (1.45%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (1.45%) BYOD
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.39%) Change Management
1 12 (17.39%) Load Balancing
1 12 (17.39%) Migration
1 12 (17.39%) Performance Management
2 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (14.49%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (11.59%) Cloud Security
5 8 (11.59%) High Availability
5 8 (11.59%) ITIL
5 8 (11.59%) Low Latency
5 8 (11.59%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (10.14%) DevOps
6 7 (10.14%) Incident Management
6 7 (10.14%) Mentoring
6 7 (10.14%) Runbook
7 6 (8.70%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.09%) Python
2 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (26.09%) CCIE
2 18 (26.09%) CCNP
3 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
4 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.25%) Degree
6 4 (5.80%) JNCIP
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.35%) CCSE
7 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.35%) JNCIE
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.90%) CISSP
8 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.90%) JNCIS
8 2 (2.90%) VCAP
8 2 (2.90%) VCDX
9 1 (1.45%) CCNA
9 1 (1.45%) CWNA
9 1 (1.45%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (30.43%) Ansible
2 11 (15.94%) Terraform
3 10 (14.49%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 51 (73.91%) Cisco
2 26 (37.68%) Palo Alto
3 25 (36.23%) F5
4 19 (27.54%) CheckPoint
5 18 (26.09%) Fortinet
6 15 (21.74%) Arista
7 11 (15.94%) Juniper
8 10 (14.49%) Zscaler
9 8 (11.59%) Aruba
10 5 (7.25%) Meraki
11 4 (5.80%) VMware
12 3 (4.35%) Nokia
12 3 (4.35%) Remedy
12 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
13 2 (2.90%) AVEVA
13 2 (2.90%) Broadcom
13 2 (2.90%) Globalscape
13 2 (2.90%) Netskope
13 2 (2.90%) Solace
13 2 (2.90%) Splunk