OSPF Contract Job Trends in Reading

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 64 94
Rank change year-on-year -9 +30 -27
Contract jobs citing OSPF 12 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.20% 0.63% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.60% 3.33% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £503 - £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £354
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.25%
75th Percentile £523 - £369
90th Percentile £527 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £438 £650 £354
% change year-on-year -32.69% +83.75% -29.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 125 120 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.51% 18.84% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 49 118
10th Percentile £257 £250 £205
25th Percentile £406 £330 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £480 £400
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +20.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £612 £613 £591
90th Percentile £688 £650 £609
Berkshire median daily rate £439 £484 £425
% change year-on-year -9.30% +13.82% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 9
10th Percentile - - £75.51
25th Percentile £16.01 - £87.46
Median hourly rate £36.67 - £87.53
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.57%
75th Percentile £63.50 - -
90th Percentile £81.80 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.25 £24.66 £83.77
% change year-on-year +71.33% -70.56% +168.05%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in Reading

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OSPF

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OSPF

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) BGP
2 11 (91.67%) BIG-IP
2 11 (91.67%) Cisco ISE
2 11 (91.67%) Firewall
2 11 (91.67%) LAN
2 11 (91.67%) VXLAN
2 11 (91.67%) WAN
3 10 (83.33%) DHCP
3 10 (83.33%) DNS
3 10 (83.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 10 (83.33%) Junos
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
5 1 (8.33%) SIGTRAN
5 1 (8.33%) tcpdump
5 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (8.33%) Billing
1 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Firewall Specialist
3 4 (33.33%) Network Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Core Network Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IP Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Support
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Clustering
1 10 (83.33%) Data Centre
1 10 (83.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) iSeries
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) High Availability
1 10 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
1 10 (83.33%) Load Balancing
1 10 (83.33%) Observability
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) ITSM
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
4 2 (16.67%) Availability Management
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Change Control
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Network Design
5 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
5 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Project Governance
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (41.67%) JNCIA
3 5 (41.67%) JNCIP
3 5 (41.67%) JNCIS
4 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
1 12 (100.00%) F5
2 11 (91.67%) Juniper
3 10 (83.33%) SolarWinds
3 10 (83.33%) Splunk
4 9 (75.00%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (8.33%) Meraki
5 1 (8.33%) NetScout
5 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto