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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 285 398
Rank change year-on-year +39 +113 +106
Contract jobs citing OSPF 107 106 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 0.59% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.14% 6.17% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 73 52
10th Percentile £325 £321 £413
25th Percentile £425 £375 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £531 £580 £650
90th Percentile £639 £863 £829
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £24.50 -
England median hourly rate £19.00 £24.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -22.45% -60.48% +125.45%

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 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in London

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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

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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 1 May 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 - 10 £400 - 1
Central London +9 8 £500 - 4
East London +15 2 £543 +4.33%
South London - 2 £600 -
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 3 (2.80%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.87%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.50%) AWS
2 10 (9.35%) Azure
3 3 (2.80%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.87%) GCP
5 1 (0.93%) Akamai
5 1 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.93%) Datadog
5 1 (0.93%) GitHub
5 1 (0.93%) IaaS
5 1 (0.93%) npm
5 1 (0.93%) PaaS
5 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (100.00%) BGP
2 69 (64.49%) Firewall
3 51 (47.66%) VPN
4 47 (43.93%) Network Security
5 40 (37.38%) MPLS
6 34 (31.78%) WAN
7 33 (30.84%) EIGRP
8 28 (26.17%) Multicast
9 21 (19.63%) HSRP
10 20 (18.69%) LAN
11 19 (17.76%) IPsec
12 18 (16.82%) DNS
12 18 (16.82%) VLAN
13 17 (15.89%) Cisco IOS
13 17 (15.89%) SD-WAN
13 17 (15.89%) VRRP
14 16 (14.95%) Wireless
15 15 (14.02%) TCP/IP
16 13 (12.15%) RIP
16 13 (12.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.43%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (19.63%) Finance
4 13 (12.15%) Telecoms
5 10 (9.35%) Banking
6 6 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Electronics
9 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Aviation
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (63.55%) Network Engineer
2 18 (16.82%) Cisco Engineer
2 18 (16.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) Consultant
3 10 (9.35%) Implementation Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Architect
5 8 (7.48%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Principal Network Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Core Network Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Network Security Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Security Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Senior
6 7 (6.54%) WAN Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Deployment Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Network Architect
7 6 (5.61%) Network Consultant
7 6 (5.61%) Network Deployment Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) WAN Specialist
9 4 (3.74%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.02%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.87%) JSON
3 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.63%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.67%) Hedge funds
2 5 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.87%) Clustering
4 2 (1.87%) Derivative
4 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.87%) NHS
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.93%) PKI
5 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Linux
2 5 (4.67%) CatOS
3 4 (3.74%) Unix
4 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.84%) Network Monitoring
2 30 (28.04%) Migration
3 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (14.95%) ITIL
5 14 (13.08%) Project Delivery
5 14 (13.08%) Service Management
6 13 (12.15%) Low Latency
7 12 (11.21%) Matrix Organization
7 12 (11.21%) Network Design
8 9 (8.41%) Network Management
9 8 (7.48%) High Availability
9 8 (7.48%) Validation
10 7 (6.54%) Analytics
10 7 (6.54%) Change Management
10 7 (6.54%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (5.61%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (4.67%) Configuration Management
12 5 (4.67%) Customer Service
12 5 (4.67%) Network Virtualisation
13 4 (3.74%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.23%) Python
2 6 (5.61%) Bash
2 6 (5.61%) Perl
3 2 (1.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 58 (54.21%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (40.19%) CCNP
3 22 (20.56%) CCIE
4 13 (12.15%) CCNA
5 12 (11.21%) Degree
6 8 (7.48%) CCSA
7 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
8 6 (5.61%) CCSE
9 5 (4.67%) CCIE Service Provider
9 5 (4.67%) JNCIA
10 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
11 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.87%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.87%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) SLA
2 2 (1.87%) DICOM
2 2 (1.87%) HL7
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (4.67%) Firmware
1 5 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.80%) VMware NSX
2 3 (2.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (30.84%) Ansible
2 11 (10.28%) FortiGate
3 8 (7.48%) ZABBIX
4 5 (4.67%) Puppet
5 4 (3.74%) CA Spectrum
5 4 (3.74%) Nagios
5 4 (3.74%) Terraform
6 3 (2.80%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.93%) Icinga
7 1 (0.93%) Netcool
7 1 (0.93%) Observium
7 1 (0.93%) OpenView
7 1 (0.93%) OPNET
7 1 (0.93%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 76 (71.03%) Cisco
2 29 (27.10%) Fortinet
3 23 (21.50%) Juniper
4 22 (20.56%) Arista
5 21 (19.63%) SolarWinds
6 20 (18.69%) CheckPoint
7 18 (16.82%) Palo Alto
8 14 (13.08%) F5
9 12 (11.21%) Meraki
10 7 (6.54%) Nokia
11 6 (5.61%) VMware
12 4 (3.74%) Splunk
13 3 (2.80%) IBM
13 3 (2.80%) McAfee
13 3 (2.80%) Red Hat
13 3 (2.80%) Solace
13 3 (2.80%) TIBCO
13 3 (2.80%) Zscaler
14 2 (1.87%) Extreme Networks
14 2 (1.87%) Microsoft