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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 238 280
Rank change year-on-year -92 +42 +145
Contract jobs citing OSPF 62 114 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.88% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.65% 8.70% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 68 74
10th Percentile £305 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £427 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £571 £661 £697
90th Percentile £788 £750 £863
England median daily rate £445 £520 £488
% change year-on-year -14.42% +6.67% -2.50%
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 1,334 1,311 1,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.26% 10.13% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 825 1,198
10th Percentile £258 £256 £200
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £619
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 73
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.78
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +59.09% -14.43%
75th Percentile £39.32 £43.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £60.35 £61.40
England median hourly rate £40.02 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.34% -12.50% +110.53%

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 11 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 11 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 -24 2 £363 -43.14% 2
East London - 1 - - 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 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 13 (20.97%) AWS
1 13 (20.97%) Azure
2 7 (11.29%) GCP
2 7 (11.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (8.06%) Route 53
4 3 (4.84%) SaaS
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.61%) IaaS
6 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (100.00%) BGP
2 51 (82.26%) Firewall
3 42 (67.74%) WAN
4 33 (53.23%) Network Security
5 29 (46.77%) LAN
6 19 (30.65%) SD-WAN
6 19 (30.65%) VPN
7 17 (27.42%) EIGRP
7 17 (27.42%) Multicast
8 15 (24.19%) Cisco ASA
9 14 (22.58%) Cisco IOS
9 14 (22.58%) MPLS
10 11 (17.74%) NX-OS
10 11 (17.74%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (16.13%) TCP/IP
12 9 (14.52%) Cisco Nexus
12 9 (14.52%) VLAN
13 8 (12.90%) HSRP
13 8 (12.90%) VXLAN
13 8 (12.90%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 16 (25.81%) Finance
2 14 (22.58%) Financial Institution
3 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Banking
5 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Retail
6 3 (4.84%) Military
6 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Architect
3 11 (17.74%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Network Security Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Security 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%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Data Centre Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Firewall Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Firewall Engineer
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
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
Miscellaneous
1 22 (35.48%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.84%) PKI
2 3 (4.84%) SCADA
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (1.61%) BYOD
4 1 (1.61%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Migration
2 12 (19.35%) Change Management
2 12 (19.35%) Load Balancing
2 12 (19.35%) Performance Management
3 11 (17.74%) Network Monitoring
4 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (11.29%) High Availability
7 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
8 6 (9.68%) Agile
8 6 (9.68%) Break/Fix
8 6 (9.68%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.68%) ITIL
8 6 (9.68%) Network Design
8 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (8.06%) AI
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.13%) Python
2 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (40.32%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (30.65%) CCIE
2 19 (30.65%) CCNP
3 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
4 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.45%) JNCIP
6 3 (4.84%) CCSE
6 3 (4.84%) CISSP
6 3 (4.84%) Degree
6 3 (4.84%) JNCIE
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.23%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.61%) CCSA
8 1 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.61%) GSEC
8 1 (1.61%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.61%) VCAP
8 1 (1.61%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) 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 13 (20.97%) Ansible
2 9 (14.52%) FortiGate
3 8 (12.90%) Terraform
4 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (77.42%) Cisco
2 25 (40.32%) F5
3 23 (37.10%) Palo Alto
4 19 (30.65%) CheckPoint
5 16 (25.81%) Fortinet
6 13 (20.97%) Arista
7 12 (19.35%) Juniper
8 9 (14.52%) Aruba
8 9 (14.52%) Zscaler
9 7 (11.29%) Meraki
10 3 (4.84%) Remedy
10 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
10 3 (4.84%) VMware
11 2 (3.23%) AVEVA
11 2 (3.23%) Broadcom
11 2 (3.23%) Google
11 2 (3.23%) SAP
11 2 (3.23%) Solace
11 2 (3.23%) Splunk
11 2 (3.23%) Symantec