OSPF Contracts in West London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring OSPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OSPF over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 46 66
Rank change year-on-year +25 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing OSPF 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 4.41% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.52% 1.49% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £321 - -
25th Percentile £325 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £315
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +54.76% -
75th Percentile £453 £506 -
90th Percentile £466 - -
London median daily rate £478 £488 £600
% change year-on-year -2.05% -18.75% +20.00%

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 54 67 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 23.79% 18.06% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 54 70
10th Percentile £227 £204 £139
25th Percentile £272 £218 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £315 £581
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% -45.81% +29.89%
75th Percentile £453 £526 £700
90th Percentile £528 £575 £838
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - - £31.25
25th Percentile - - £34.44
Median hourly rate £52.00 £23.80 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.49% -63.38% +242.11%
75th Percentile - £44.40 £75.00
90th Percentile - £56.76 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £23.65 £36.27
% change year-on-year +58.56% -34.79% +31.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in West London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSPF in West London.

Daily rate trend for OSPF in West London

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Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSPF in West London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSPF in West London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OSPF in West London.

Hourly rate trend for OSPF in West London

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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 25 June 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 - 8 £400 - 9
OSPF
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) BGP
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) VLAN
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
2 8 (80.00%) Network Security
2 8 (80.00%) WAN
3 7 (70.00%) DHCP
3 7 (70.00%) DNS
3 7 (70.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (70.00%) LAN
4 6 (60.00%) EIGRP
4 6 (60.00%) SD-WAN
4 6 (60.00%) SSL
5 5 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (50.00%) DMVPN
5 5 (50.00%) WLAN
6 4 (40.00%) Wireless
7 3 (30.00%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (10.00%) IPsec
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aviation
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Network Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Security Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Check Point Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Check Point Support
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Support
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Network Management
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (70.00%) CCNP
2 7 (70.00%) CCSA
3 3 (30.00%) CCNA
3 3 (30.00%) JNCIA
4 2 (20.00%) CCSE
4 2 (20.00%) JNCIS
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (80.00%) Juniper
3 7 (70.00%) F5
4 6 (60.00%) CheckPoint
4 6 (60.00%) SolarWinds
5 5 (50.00%) Meraki