OSPF Contract Job Trends in South London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 37 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.97% 0.87% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.35% 9.52% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 -
London median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.25
London median hourly rate - £33.75 £35.75
% change year-on-year - -5.59% -30.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 46 21 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 22.22% 9.13% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 43
10th Percentile - £190 £192
25th Percentile £413 £358 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -20.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £578 £516 £638
90th Percentile £611 £538 £675
London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.25
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OSPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OSPF

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OSPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OSPF

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Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the South London region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Bromley - 2 - -
OSPF
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 2 (100.00%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds