OSPF Contract Job Trends in West London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.88% 0.47% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 2.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £371 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% - -
75th Percentile £423 £488 -
90th Percentile £456 - -
London median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 72 42 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 23.00% 19.53% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 30 51
10th Percentile £312 £197 £133
25th Percentile £369 £225 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £388
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -3.35% -9.24%
75th Percentile £500 £459 £519
90th Percentile £523 £581 £613
London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - £23.59 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year - -47.87% +21.57%
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile - - £80.40
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in West London

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in West London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in West London

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

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

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Hillingdon - 4 £413 -
OSPF
London

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Akamai
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 8 (88.89%) Network Security
3 7 (77.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (77.78%) SD-WAN
3 7 (77.78%) WAN
4 6 (66.67%) VLAN
4 6 (66.67%) VPN
4 6 (66.67%) Wireless
5 5 (55.56%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (55.56%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (55.56%) DHCP
5 5 (55.56%) DNS
5 5 (55.56%) LAN
5 5 (55.56%) SSL
5 5 (55.56%) WLAN
6 4 (44.44%) DMVPN
6 4 (44.44%) EIGRP
7 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Network Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Security Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Tech Ops
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) CCNP
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (55.56%) CCSA
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) CCIE
4 1 (11.11%) CCSE
4 1 (11.11%) JNCIE
4 1 (11.11%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Juniper
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) F5
3 6 (66.67%) CheckPoint
4 5 (55.56%) Meraki
4 5 (55.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 1 (11.11%) Remedy
5 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (11.11%) Zscaler