OSPF Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.00% 2.54% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.38% 16.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £511 £517 -
25th Percentile £512 £558 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% - -
75th Percentile £543 £630 -
90th Percentile £553 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £599 -
% change year-on-year -12.32% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 64 31 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.63% 15.74% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 19 75
10th Percentile £262 £257 £338
25th Percentile £476 £476 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £583 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% +10.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £630 £560
90th Percentile £643 £666 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £552 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +8.72% -3.33% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £24.00
% change year-on-year +153.52% -40.83% -

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OSPF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

OSPF job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing OSPF

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing OSPF

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) BGP
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) IPsec
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) BIG-IP
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (50.00%) ICMP
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) MPLS
3 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) NGFW
3 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
5 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 3 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) ITSM
4 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Network Management
5 1 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) CCDA
3 1 (16.67%) CCDP
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCIP
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) CASB
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) F5
3 3 (50.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (16.67%) Arista
4 1 (16.67%) Aruba
4 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds