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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 280 335
Rank change year-on-year -3 +55 +152
Contract jobs citing OSPF 90 101 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.64% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.11% 6.62% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 62 63
10th Percentile £383 £250 £413
25th Percentile £428 £393 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £596 £650 £745
90th Percentile £664 £771 £875
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.63 £31.63 -
25th Percentile £37.19 £32.19 £32.00
Median hourly rate £38.75 £33.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -0.74% +19.30%
75th Percentile £39.69 £34.69 £36.00
90th Percentile £39.88 £34.88 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -1.52% +21.10%

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 1,266 1,525 2,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.45% 9.63% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 936 1,503
10th Percentile £281 £256 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £711 £713 £750
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 46
10th Percentile £18.69 £23.80 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +41.90% +9.79%
75th Percentile £40.00 £61.69 £61.31
90th Percentile £62.65 £75.27 £78.75
England median hourly rate £32.77 £57.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -42.76% +1.35% +37.68%

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 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
Central London +16 16 £654 +3.81% 16
West London +2 9 £400 -16.83%
East London 0 2 £535 +141.88% 3
South London -2 2 - -
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 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) nginx
2 2 (2.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.44%) AWS
2 15 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (7.78%) Akamai
4 6 (6.67%) GCP
5 3 (3.33%) SaaS
6 2 (2.22%) GitHub
6 2 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.11%) IaaS
7 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (100.00%) BGP
2 58 (64.44%) Firewall
3 36 (40.00%) WAN
4 30 (33.33%) VPN
5 26 (28.89%) MPLS
5 26 (28.89%) Network Security
6 24 (26.67%) SD-WAN
7 23 (25.56%) IPsec
8 21 (23.33%) DNS
9 19 (21.11%) LAN
10 18 (20.00%) EIGRP
10 18 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 18 (20.00%) Multicast
11 17 (18.89%) Ethernet VPN
12 16 (17.78%) Cisco Nexus
12 16 (17.78%) VXLAN
13 14 (15.56%) VLAN
14 13 (14.44%) Cisco ISE
14 13 (14.44%) TCP/IP
15 12 (13.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Git
2 5 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.33%) GitLab
4 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Finance
3 9 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (7.78%) Banking
6 6 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.11%) Law
10 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 19 (21.11%) Cisco Engineer
2 19 (21.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 14 (15.56%) Senior
4 12 (13.33%) Juniper Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) WAN Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Architect
7 8 (8.89%) Consultant
7 8 (8.89%) Network Security Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Network Architect
9 5 (5.56%) Network Consultant
9 5 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Network Specialist
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) Jinja
2 3 (3.33%) SAML
3 2 (2.22%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.22%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.78%) PKI
3 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.11%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.11%) SCADA
4 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Linux
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
2 16 (17.78%) Migration
2 16 (17.78%) Network Segmentation
3 14 (15.56%) Change Control
3 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (12.22%) Low Latency
5 10 (11.11%) High Availability
6 9 (10.00%) Change Management
6 9 (10.00%) DevOps
6 9 (10.00%) ITIL
6 9 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (8.89%) Agile
8 7 (7.78%) CI/CD
8 7 (7.78%) Network Design
9 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (5.56%) Patch Management
10 5 (5.56%) Validation
10 5 (5.56%) Zero Trust
11 4 (4.44%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 37 (41.11%) Python
2 10 (11.11%) Bash
3 6 (6.67%) C++
3 6 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (1.11%) Go
4 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (43.33%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (34.44%) CCNP
3 16 (17.78%) CCIE
4 13 (14.44%) Security Cleared
5 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
6 9 (10.00%) JNCIA
7 8 (8.89%) JNCIS
8 6 (6.67%) CCSA
8 6 (6.67%) Degree
9 5 (5.56%) JNCIE
10 4 (4.44%) CCSE
10 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (4.44%) JNCIP
11 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
11 3 (3.33%) CCNA
12 2 (2.22%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
13 1 (1.11%) CCDE
13 1 (1.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) GDPR
1 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.11%) NIST
1 1 (1.11%) SLA
1 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (16.67%) Firmware
2 4 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.33%) Docker
4 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.22%) KVM
Systems Management
1 39 (43.33%) Ansible
2 10 (11.11%) Terraform
3 9 (10.00%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.44%) CA Spectrum
5 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.22%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.11%) Icinga
7 1 (1.11%) Nagios
7 1 (1.11%) Observium
Vendors
1 63 (70.00%) Cisco
2 36 (40.00%) Juniper
3 31 (34.44%) Fortinet
4 28 (31.11%) Arista
5 26 (28.89%) F5
6 18 (20.00%) Palo Alto
7 17 (18.89%) CheckPoint
7 17 (18.89%) SolarWinds
8 9 (10.00%) Meraki
9 7 (7.78%) Zscaler
10 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
11 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
11 5 (5.56%) VMware
12 4 (4.44%) Remedy
13 3 (3.33%) Splunk
14 2 (2.22%) Aruba
14 2 (2.22%) Dell
14 2 (2.22%) Extreme Networks
14 2 (2.22%) LogicMonitor
14 2 (2.22%) NVIDIA