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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing OSPF 7 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.91% - 2.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.64% - 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £511 - £448
25th Percentile £524 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £769 - -
90th Percentile £779 - £630
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

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 81 24 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.52% 10.26% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 10 41
10th Percentile £391 £463 £406
25th Percentile £512 £484 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £527 £511
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% +3.08% -5.37%
75th Percentile £623 £556 £550
90th Percentile £651 £596 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £590 £508 £505
% change year-on-year +16.26% +0.50% -6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £16.10 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - -
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £22.58
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £22.58
% change year-on-year +172.68% -37.11% +15.79%

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 22 August 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 7 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) IPsec
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 5 (71.43%) ICMP
2 5 (71.43%) NGFW
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (57.14%) DNS
3 4 (57.14%) MPLS
3 4 (57.14%) Network Security
3 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
3 4 (57.14%) VLAN
3 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Lead Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leader
3 2 (28.57%) Network Technical Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (57.14%) Private Cloud
2 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
2 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) DDoS Mitigation
3 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) CCNP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (57.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) F5
1 7 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) Google
4 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow