OSPF Contracts in London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring OSPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OSPF over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 302 378
Rank change year-on-year +62 +76 +131
Contract jobs citing OSPF 120 94 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.75% 5.56% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 69 61
10th Percentile £375 £250 £438
25th Percentile £413 £350 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -24.00% +21.89%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £813
90th Percentile £660 £645 £875
England median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 £23.25 -
Median hourly rate £38.75 £23.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.89% - -
75th Percentile £39.69 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £21.25 £62.00
% change year-on-year +88.24% -65.73% +138.46%

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 1,371 1,691 2,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.32% 9.61% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 1,113 1,889
10th Percentile £263 £228 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £669
90th Percentile £717 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 49 49
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.91 £16.86 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -34.87% +32.87%
75th Percentile £49.38 £41.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £62.05 £60.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in London

OSPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSPF in London.

Daily rate trend for OSPF in London

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in London

OSPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in London.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in London

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 6 July 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 +27 17 £400 -16.83% 13
Central London +17 15 £657 +28.10% 35
South London - 4 £600 -
East London +13 2 £543 +117.00% 5
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.67%) nginx
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.00%) AWS
2 9 (7.50%) Azure
3 7 (5.83%) Akamai
4 3 (2.50%) GCP
4 3 (2.50%) GitHub
5 2 (1.67%) SaaS
5 2 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Datadog
6 1 (0.83%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 120 (100.00%) BGP
2 86 (71.67%) Firewall
3 49 (40.83%) VPN
4 43 (35.83%) WAN
5 40 (33.33%) Network Security
6 38 (31.67%) MPLS
7 34 (28.33%) Multicast
8 32 (26.67%) EIGRP
9 27 (22.50%) LAN
10 26 (21.67%) SD-WAN
11 24 (20.00%) VLAN
12 23 (19.17%) DNS
12 23 (19.17%) IPsec
13 21 (17.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 20 (16.67%) HSRP
15 18 (15.00%) Cisco IOS
15 18 (15.00%) Wireless
16 16 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
16 16 (13.33%) SSL
16 16 (13.33%) VRRP
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.50%) Git
2 3 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.17%) Finance
3 20 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.50%) Banking
5 10 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Aviation
10 1 (0.83%) Law
10 1 (0.83%) Military
10 1 (0.83%) Police
Job Titles
1 88 (73.33%) Network Engineer
2 27 (22.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 27 (22.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 13 (10.83%) Implementation Engineer
4 12 (10.00%) WAN Engineer
5 10 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
5 10 (8.33%) Security Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Core Network Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Senior
8 7 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Consultant
8 7 (5.83%) Juniper Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Python Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Administrator
9 6 (5.00%) Deployment Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Network Administrator
9 6 (5.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Principal Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.67%) JSON
3 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.83%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.33%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.67%) Derivative
3 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.67%) PKI
3 2 (1.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) CatOS
1 5 (4.17%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Unix
3 2 (1.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 27 (22.50%) Migration
3 20 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (12.50%) ITIL
5 14 (11.67%) Low Latency
6 13 (10.83%) High Availability
6 13 (10.83%) Network Segmentation
7 12 (10.00%) Change Management
7 12 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
7 12 (10.00%) Validation
8 11 (9.17%) Service Management
9 10 (8.33%) Change Control
10 8 (6.67%) Patch Management
10 8 (6.67%) Project Delivery
11 7 (5.83%) Network Design
12 6 (5.00%) Computer Science
13 5 (4.17%) CI/CD
13 5 (4.17%) Configuration Management
14 4 (3.33%) Network Management
14 4 (3.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.67%) Python
2 6 (5.00%) Bash
3 5 (4.17%) Perl
4 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.83%) C++
Qualifications
1 65 (54.17%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (43.33%) CCNP
3 18 (15.00%) CCIE
4 14 (11.67%) CCNA
5 13 (10.83%) CCSA
6 10 (8.33%) Degree
6 10 (8.33%) Security Cleared
7 9 (7.50%) JNCIA
8 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
9 6 (5.00%) CCSE
9 6 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (4.17%) CCIE Service Provider
10 5 (4.17%) JNCIS
11 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.83%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.67%) SLA
2 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (11.67%) Firmware
2 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (35.00%) Ansible
2 10 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 8 (6.67%) CA Spectrum
3 8 (6.67%) ZABBIX
4 4 (3.33%) Nagios
4 4 (3.33%) Puppet
4 4 (3.33%) Terraform
5 2 (1.67%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.67%) Icinga
5 2 (1.67%) Observium
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.83%) Netcool
6 1 (0.83%) OpenView
6 1 (0.83%) OPNET
6 1 (0.83%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 91 (75.83%) Cisco
2 38 (31.67%) Fortinet
3 37 (30.83%) Juniper
4 32 (26.67%) Arista
5 30 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 29 (24.17%) CheckPoint
7 28 (23.33%) F5
8 21 (17.50%) Palo Alto
9 16 (13.33%) Meraki
10 7 (5.83%) Nokia
11 4 (3.33%) Microsoft
12 3 (2.50%) Aruba
12 3 (2.50%) McAfee
12 3 (2.50%) VMware
13 2 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (1.67%) Splunk
14 1 (0.83%) ForeScout
14 1 (0.83%) Refinitiv
14 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.83%) Zscaler