OSPF Contract Job Trends in Slough

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Slough requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Slough 1.82% - 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% - 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £368 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 - £325
75th Percentile £404 - £338
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £451 £650 £490
% change year-on-year -30.69% +32.65% -5.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3 18 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 5.45% 25.00% 37.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 26
10th Percentile £371 £218 -
25th Percentile £376 £230 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £390 £386
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +0.97% -3.56%
75th Percentile £403 £444 £400
90th Percentile £404 £465 £538
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.34
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £25.12
Median % change year-on-year - -1.81% -
75th Percentile - - £25.89
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 £21.83 £82.50
% change year-on-year +243.56% -73.54% +146.28%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in Slough

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing OSPF

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) RSVP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Fault Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BT
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper