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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 246 290
Rank change year-on-year -92 +44 +121
Contract jobs citing OSPF 69 109 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.86% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.95% 8.24% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 60 69
10th Percentile £333 £325 £316
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £494 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +1.28% -9.30%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £588
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 4
10th Percentile - - £23.55
25th Percentile - - £24.00
Median hourly rate - - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £49.88
90th Percentile - - £69.90
England median hourly rate £71.17 £19.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +274.55% -38.71% -50.00%

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 1,395 1,323 1,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.06% 10.45% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 855 1,157
10th Percentile £300 £265 £206
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £607
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 65
10th Percentile £20.23 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £26.54 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.07% +93.18% -38.89%
75th Percentile £33.90 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £43.85 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.94% -6.25% +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 16 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 16 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 -16 2 £363 -27.50% 4
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 15 (21.74%) AWS
1 15 (21.74%) Azure
2 7 (10.14%) GCP
2 7 (10.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (7.25%) Route 53
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (2.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.90%) SaaS
5 1 (1.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 69 (100.00%) BGP
2 56 (81.16%) Firewall
3 45 (65.22%) WAN
4 32 (46.38%) Network Security
5 31 (44.93%) 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%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (23.19%) EIGRP
11 14 (20.29%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (18.84%) 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 7 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 5 (7.25%) Banking
6 5 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.25%) Retail
7 3 (4.35%) Military
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (50.72%) Network Engineer
2 17 (24.64%) 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%) Firewall Architect
7 2 (2.90%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Network Operations Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Network Support
7 2 (2.90%) Operations 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 27 (39.13%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.35%) PKI
4 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
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%) High Availability
5 8 (11.59%) ITIL
5 8 (11.59%) Low Latency
5 8 (11.59%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (10.14%) Cloud Security
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%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.70%) Break/Fix
Programming Languages
1 17 (24.64%) 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 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
4 10 (14.49%) 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%) GIAC
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 20 (28.99%) Ansible
2 10 (14.49%) FortiGate
2 10 (14.49%) Terraform
3 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 51 (73.91%) Cisco
2 26 (37.68%) Palo Alto
3 24 (34.78%) F5
4 19 (27.54%) CheckPoint
5 18 (26.09%) Fortinet
6 15 (21.74%) Arista
7 11 (15.94%) Juniper
8 9 (13.04%) 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%) Databricks
13 2 (2.90%) Netskope
13 2 (2.90%) Solace
13 2 (2.90%) Splunk