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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 250 311
Rank change year-on-year -113 +61 +62
Contract jobs citing OSPF 72 120 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.88% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.65% 8.54% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 65 67
10th Percentile - £375 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% - -26.92%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £538
90th Percentile £655 £659 £595
England median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
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 £71.33 £40.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +78.33% +88.24% -65.73%

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 1,549 1,405 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.83% 10.32% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 906 1,096
10th Percentile £300 £273 £226
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £725 £717 £725
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 46
10th Percentile £18.02 £19.33 £14.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.15 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.88 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% +26.05% -34.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.27% -1.16% +56.36%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -20 4 £425 -35.26% 7
West London -31 1 £525 +31.17% 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 1 (1.39%) Confluence
1 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.11%) Azure
2 17 (23.61%) AWS
3 10 (13.89%) GCP
4 4 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (5.56%) GitHub
4 4 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (2.78%) Route 53
5 2 (2.78%) SaaS
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 72 (100.00%) BGP
2 54 (75.00%) Firewall
3 43 (59.72%) WAN
4 30 (41.67%) Network Security
5 27 (37.50%) LAN
6 24 (33.33%) MPLS
7 23 (31.94%) VPN
8 21 (29.17%) SD-WAN
8 21 (29.17%) VLAN
9 20 (27.78%) Multicast
10 15 (20.83%) EIGRP
11 13 (18.06%) Cisco IOS
12 12 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (15.28%) VXLAN
14 9 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
14 9 (12.50%) Wireless
15 8 (11.11%) DNS
15 8 (11.11%) HSRP
16 7 (9.72%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Git
General
1 23 (31.94%) Finance
2 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.72%) Banking
6 6 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.17%) Retail
8 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (52.78%) Network Engineer
2 21 (29.17%) Senior
3 11 (15.28%) Architect
3 11 (15.28%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Network Security Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Security Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Designer
5 4 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Network Designer
5 4 (5.56%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Data Centre Architect
7 2 (2.78%) Administrator
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Architect
7 2 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Data Architect
7 2 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) Jinja
1 4 (5.56%) REST
2 2 (2.78%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.78%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.78%) SAML
3 1 (1.39%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (40.28%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.78%) SCADA
4 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.39%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (1.39%) BYOD
5 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
1 4 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.67%) Cloud Security
1 12 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (15.28%) Zero Trust
3 10 (13.89%) High Availability
3 10 (13.89%) Low Latency
3 10 (13.89%) Migration
4 9 (12.50%) AI
4 9 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (12.50%) Network Design
4 9 (12.50%) Runbook
4 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (11.11%) Analytics
5 8 (11.11%) DevOps
5 8 (11.11%) ITIL
6 7 (9.72%) Change Control
6 7 (9.72%) Change Management
6 7 (9.72%) Load Balancing
6 7 (9.72%) Performance Management
6 7 (9.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) Python
2 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (20.83%) CCNP
3 14 (19.44%) CCIE
4 5 (6.94%) Degree
5 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.17%) CISSP
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.78%) CCIE Security
7 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.78%) JNCIP
7 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.78%) VCAP
7 2 (2.78%) VCDX
8 1 (1.39%) CCSE
8 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.39%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.39%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (30.56%) Ansible
2 13 (18.06%) Terraform
3 10 (13.89%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.39%) CASB
5 1 (1.39%) QRadar
5 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (75.00%) Cisco
2 28 (38.89%) Palo Alto
3 19 (26.39%) F5
4 18 (25.00%) Fortinet
5 16 (22.22%) Arista
6 14 (19.44%) Juniper
7 10 (13.89%) CheckPoint
7 10 (13.89%) Zscaler
8 5 (6.94%) VMware
9 4 (5.56%) Meraki
10 3 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (4.17%) Nokia
10 3 (4.17%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.78%) AVEVA
11 2 (2.78%) Citrix
11 2 (2.78%) Databricks
11 2 (2.78%) Globalscape
11 2 (2.78%) Google
11 2 (2.78%) SAP
11 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow