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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 304 389
Rank change year-on-year +73 +85 +110
Contract jobs citing OSPF 111 92 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.92% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.81% 5.51% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 67 48
10th Percentile £386 £328 £413
25th Percentile £427 £388 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.02% +17.50%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £669
90th Percentile £667 £805 £830
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
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 1,260 1,671 2,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.40% 9.56% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,128 1,814
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £713 £738 £775
England median daily rate £495 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -0.92% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 52 51
10th Percentile £21.03 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.71 £22.69
Median hourly rate £38.75 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +62.82% -34.87% +26.83%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £69.75
90th Percentile £61.85 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.57 £40.00 £17.07
% change year-on-year -8.57% +134.40% -28.63%

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 29 May 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 29 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
Central London +13 11 £654 +27.61% 2
West London - 10 £400 - 5
East London +21 2 £543 - 2
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 (2.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.42%) AWS
2 10 (9.01%) Azure
3 3 (2.70%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.80%) GCP
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Akamai
5 1 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.90%) Datadog
5 1 (0.90%) GitHub
5 1 (0.90%) IaaS
5 1 (0.90%) npm
5 1 (0.90%) PaaS
5 1 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (100.00%) BGP
2 71 (63.96%) Firewall
3 50 (45.05%) VPN
4 42 (37.84%) MPLS
4 42 (37.84%) Network Security
5 37 (33.33%) WAN
6 33 (29.73%) Multicast
7 28 (25.23%) EIGRP
8 23 (20.72%) LAN
9 22 (19.82%) HSRP
9 22 (19.82%) IPsec
10 19 (17.12%) Cisco IOS
10 19 (17.12%) SD-WAN
11 18 (16.22%) VLAN
12 17 (15.32%) VRRP
13 16 (14.41%) DNS
14 15 (13.51%) Wireless
15 13 (11.71%) RIP
15 13 (11.71%) SSL
15 13 (11.71%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 32 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (18.02%) Finance
3 14 (12.61%) Banking
4 10 (9.01%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.31%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.90%) Aviation
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Marketing
7 1 (0.90%) Military
7 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (65.77%) Network Engineer
2 20 (18.02%) Cisco Engineer
2 20 (18.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 12 (10.81%) Implementation Engineer
4 9 (8.11%) WAN Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Core Network Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Principal Network Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Architect
6 7 (6.31%) Consultant
6 7 (6.31%) Network Security Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Security Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Senior
7 6 (5.41%) Deployment Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Network Deployment Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Network Consultant
8 5 (4.50%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.80%) JSON
3 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.42%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.50%) Hedge funds
2 5 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.80%) Derivative
4 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.90%) PKI
5 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) CatOS
2 4 (3.60%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.63%) Network Monitoring
2 30 (27.03%) Migration
3 18 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (13.51%) ITIL
4 15 (13.51%) Low Latency
5 14 (12.61%) Project Delivery
5 14 (12.61%) Service Management
6 12 (10.81%) Matrix Organization
7 10 (9.01%) Network Design
7 10 (9.01%) Validation
8 8 (7.21%) Change Management
8 8 (7.21%) High Availability
9 6 (5.41%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (4.50%) Analytics
10 5 (4.50%) Computer Science
10 5 (4.50%) Configuration Management
10 5 (4.50%) Customer Service
10 5 (4.50%) Network Management
11 4 (3.60%) CI/CD
11 4 (3.60%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.03%) Python
2 5 (4.50%) Bash
3 4 (3.60%) Perl
4 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 59 (53.15%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (39.64%) CCNP
3 22 (19.82%) CCIE
4 12 (10.81%) CCNA
5 11 (9.91%) Degree
6 8 (7.21%) CCSA
7 6 (5.41%) CCSE
7 6 (5.41%) JNCIA
8 5 (4.50%) CCIE Service Provider
8 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.50%) Security Cleared
9 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
10 3 (2.70%) CCIE Data Center
10 3 (2.70%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.70%) SLA
2 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (6.31%) Firmware
2 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (34.23%) Ansible
2 11 (9.91%) FortiGate
3 8 (7.21%) ZABBIX
4 5 (4.50%) Nagios
4 5 (4.50%) Puppet
5 4 (3.60%) CA Spectrum
5 4 (3.60%) Terraform
6 3 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.80%) Icinga
7 2 (1.80%) Observium
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco LMS
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.90%) Netcool
8 1 (0.90%) OpenView
8 1 (0.90%) OPNET
8 1 (0.90%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 80 (72.07%) Cisco
2 32 (28.83%) Fortinet
3 30 (27.03%) Arista
4 22 (19.82%) Juniper
5 21 (18.92%) CheckPoint
6 20 (18.02%) Palo Alto
6 20 (18.02%) SolarWinds
7 14 (12.61%) F5
8 12 (10.81%) Meraki
9 7 (6.31%) Nokia
10 3 (2.70%) Aruba
10 3 (2.70%) IBM
10 3 (2.70%) McAfee
10 3 (2.70%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.70%) Solace
10 3 (2.70%) TIBCO
10 3 (2.70%) VMware
10 3 (2.70%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.80%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.80%) Splunk