OSPF Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring OSPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.49% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £471 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 128 79 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.48% 13.69% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 44 64
10th Percentile £306 £235 £269
25th Percentile £318 £261 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £547 £600
90th Percentile £639 £575 £646
Yorkshire median daily rate £468 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.58% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 5
10th Percentile £19.74 - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £13.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.32%
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £16.66
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.29 - £18.27
% change year-on-year - - +71.87%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

OSPF
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Leeds - 6 £450 - 1
OSPF
Yorkshire

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) OCI
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) BGP
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) SD-WAN
4 3 (50.00%) BIG-IP
4 3 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (50.00%) VXLAN
4 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (50.00%) WLAN
5 2 (33.33%) DHCP
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) Internet
5 2 (33.33%) LAN
5 2 (33.33%) Network Security
5 2 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (33.33%) Wireless
6 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
6 1 (16.67%) IPsec
6 1 (16.67%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Network Design
3 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Logistics
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Runbook
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) Arista
2 3 (50.00%) Aruba
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki