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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 33 43
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing OSPF 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.80% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.82% 4.55% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £511 - £526
25th Percentile £513 £490 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -18.37% +2.08%
75th Percentile £560 £510 £697
90th Percentile £698 - £729
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +7.50% -18.37% +2.08%

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 68 22 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.03% 12.29% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 12 46
10th Percentile £306 £294 £391
25th Percentile £463 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £610 £545 £550
90th Percentile £643 £559 £656
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate - - £22.55
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.52
% change year-on-year - -36.94% +18.53%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in Milton Keynes

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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) BGP
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) IPsec
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
2 5 (83.33%) BIG-IP
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (83.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (83.33%) ICMP
2 5 (83.33%) LAN
2 5 (83.33%) NGFW
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (66.67%) Network Security
3 4 (66.67%) Wireless
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (50.00%) MPLS
4 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (50.00%) VPN
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (16.67%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
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%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 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
1 6 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) F5
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
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%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) Zscaler