OSPF Contract Job Trends in the North East

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 35 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 13 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.95% 0.33% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.70% 3.13% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £351
25th Percentile - - £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £250 £425
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% -41.18% -
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 66 32 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 9.90% 10.53% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 24
10th Percentile £191 £153 £293
25th Percentile £381 £213 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £441
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -26.22% +57.32%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £591
90th Percentile £650 £628 £648
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile - - £29.80
25th Percentile £21.33 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 - £47.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £49.00 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.34% -1.70% +128.15%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OSPF

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OSPF

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the North East region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 13 £650 - 3
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
1 13 (100.00%) OCI
2 6 (46.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) BGP
1 13 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 13 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
1 13 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 12 (92.31%) Ethernet VPN
2 12 (92.31%) SD-WAN
3 11 (84.62%) WAN
4 6 (46.15%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (46.15%) WLAN
5 1 (7.69%) Network Security
5 1 (7.69%) NGFW
5 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) GitLab
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (76.92%) Senior
1 10 (76.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (92.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) Load Balancing
3 9 (69.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (53.85%) Network Design
5 6 (46.15%) High Availability
6 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
7 4 (30.77%) DevOps
7 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
8 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
9 1 (7.69%) Backlog Management
9 1 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
9 1 (7.69%) Operational Stability
9 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Ansible
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) F5
1 13 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 12 (92.31%) Arista
3 11 (84.62%) Aruba
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint