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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 236 295
Rank change year-on-year -97 +59 +101
Contract jobs citing OSPF 72 111 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.89% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.14% 8.40% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 58 70
10th Percentile £305 £360 £335
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £600 £531 £586
90th Percentile £673 £626 £863
England median daily rate £456 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -8.80% +5.26% -6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £36.63 £23.35
25th Percentile - £37.19 £23.50
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - +61.46% -
75th Percentile - £39.69 £24.50
90th Percentile - £39.88 £24.65
England median hourly rate £71.17 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +89.77% +56.25% -61.29%

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 1,400 1,322 1,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.87% 10.61% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 847 1,126
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £717 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 55
10th Percentile £19.49 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.65 £32.33 £17.32
Median hourly rate £25.63 £42.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.69% +80.85% -45.35%
75th Percentile £29.00 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £93.25 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.52% -21.48% +116.22%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -17 3 £425 -15.00% 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 (4.17%) Confluence
1 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.00%) Azure
2 15 (20.83%) AWS
3 7 (9.72%) GCP
3 7 (9.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (6.94%) Route 53
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%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.78%) GitHub
5 2 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (100.00%) BGP
2 58 (80.56%) Firewall
3 45 (62.50%) WAN
4 33 (45.83%) Network Security
5 30 (41.67%) LAN
6 21 (29.17%) Multicast
7 19 (26.39%) VPN
8 18 (25.00%) MPLS
9 17 (23.61%) EIGRP
9 17 (23.61%) SD-WAN
10 15 (20.83%) VLAN
11 13 (18.06%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (15.28%) Wireless
14 10 (13.89%) TCP/IP
15 9 (12.50%) VXLAN
15 9 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
16 8 (11.11%) NX-OS
17 7 (9.72%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 21 (29.17%) Finance
2 13 (18.06%) Financial Institution
3 10 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.72%) Banking
5 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Retail
5 6 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.78%) Military
7 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Legal
8 1 (1.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (54.17%) Network Engineer
2 18 (25.00%) Senior
3 14 (19.44%) Architect
4 8 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Network Architect
6 4 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Data Centre Architect
7 3 (4.17%) Lead
7 3 (4.17%) Lead Network Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Network Security Architect
7 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.78%) AWS Architect
8 2 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (2.78%) Designer
8 2 (2.78%) Firewall Architect
8 2 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Network Operations Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 4 (5.56%) Jinja
2 4 (5.56%) VML
3 3 (4.17%) REST
4 2 (2.78%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.78%) CSS
4 2 (2.78%) HTML
5 1 (1.39%) LDAP
5 1 (1.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (40.28%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.78%) PKI
4 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) SCADA
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.67%) Migration
2 10 (13.89%) Change Management
2 10 (13.89%) Load Balancing
2 10 (13.89%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (13.89%) Performance Management
3 9 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 9 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (12.50%) ITIL
3 9 (12.50%) Low Latency
3 9 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (12.50%) Runbook
3 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (11.11%) DevOps
4 8 (11.11%) High Availability
5 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
5 7 (9.72%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.78%) Python
2 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.39%) Bash
3 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (34.72%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (27.78%) CCNP
3 17 (23.61%) CCIE
4 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
5 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 6 (8.33%) Degree
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (5.56%) JNCIP
8 3 (4.17%) CCSE
8 3 (4.17%) JNCIE
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.78%) JNCIS
9 2 (2.78%) VCAP
9 2 (2.78%) VCDX
10 1 (1.39%) CISSP
10 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.39%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (30.56%) Ansible
2 11 (15.28%) Terraform
3 8 (11.11%) 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 53 (73.61%) Cisco
2 29 (40.28%) Palo Alto
3 24 (33.33%) F5
4 19 (26.39%) CheckPoint
5 17 (23.61%) Fortinet
6 16 (22.22%) Arista
7 11 (15.28%) Juniper
8 9 (12.50%) Zscaler
9 7 (9.72%) Aruba
10 6 (8.33%) Meraki
11 4 (5.56%) VMware
12 3 (4.17%) Nokia
12 3 (4.17%) Remedy
12 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
13 2 (2.78%) AVEVA
13 2 (2.78%) Broadcom
13 2 (2.78%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (2.78%) Netskope
13 2 (2.78%) Solace
13 2 (2.78%) Splunk