OSPF Jobs in England

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OSPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OSPF over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 584 719
Rank change year-on-year +35 +135 -180
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 320 320 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.59% 2.35% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 237 267 358
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £36,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.54% +8.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

OSPF is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,342 13,631 19,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.10% 16.49% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,528 6,936 10,460
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,244
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,475 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in England

OSPF
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OSPF in England.

Salary trend for OSPF in England

OSPF
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in England

OSPF
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +7 92 £52,750 +13.44% 20
London +28 85 £70,000 +7.69% 24
North of England +48 77 £42,500 -9.57% 16
North West +40 64 £40,000 -42.86% 11
Midlands -23 48 £48,500 -15.65% 2
West Midlands +9 47 £48,500 -11.82% 2
Yorkshire +52 16 £47,500 +5.56% 5
South West -35 16 £48,500 -3.00% 5
East of England -18 7 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North East -26 3 £62,500 +35.14% 1
East Midlands -44 1 £60,000 +4.35%
OSPF
UK

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.50%) Skype for Business
2 2 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (16.25%) Azure
2 49 (15.31%) AWS
3 12 (3.75%) AWS Direct Connect
3 12 (3.75%) IaaS
3 12 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.13%) PaaS
4 10 (3.13%) SaaS
5 8 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.56%) GCP
7 4 (1.25%) Mimecast
8 3 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (0.94%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.63%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.63%) OpenDNS
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.31%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.31%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 284 (88.75%) BGP
2 166 (51.88%) Firewall
3 164 (51.25%) WAN
4 151 (47.19%) MPLS
5 139 (43.44%) LAN
6 105 (32.81%) VPN
7 99 (30.94%) TCP/IP
8 98 (30.63%) Wireless
9 96 (30.00%) SD-WAN
10 75 (23.44%) EIGRP
11 74 (23.13%) VLAN
12 60 (18.75%) IPsec
13 59 (18.44%) DHCP
13 59 (18.44%) Network Security
14 54 (16.88%) DNS
15 50 (15.63%) Wi-Fi
16 49 (15.31%) Cisco ASA
17 46 (14.38%) DMVPN
17 46 (14.38%) Internet
18 45 (14.06%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.56%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.63%) MariaDB
2 2 (0.63%) MySQL
2 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.56%) JIRA
2 4 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.31%) GitLab
3 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.44%) Law
3 25 (7.81%) Finance
4 21 (6.56%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.44%) Retail
7 9 (2.81%) Legal
8 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.25%) Publishing
9 3 (0.94%) Billing
9 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.94%) Military
10 2 (0.63%) Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Electronics
10 2 (0.63%) Front Office
10 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.31%) Automotive
11 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 167 (52.19%) Network Engineer
2 53 (16.56%) Senior
3 42 (13.13%) Analyst
3 42 (13.13%) Network Analyst
4 39 (12.19%) Senior Network Engineer
5 31 (9.69%) Network Operations Analyst
5 31 (9.69%) Operations Analyst
6 29 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (7.81%) Network Support
8 22 (6.88%) Cisco Engineer
8 22 (6.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 21 (6.56%) Architect
10 18 (5.63%) Support Engineer
11 17 (5.31%) IP Engineer
11 17 (5.31%) IP Network Engineer
12 16 (5.00%) Network Specialist
13 14 (4.38%) Juniper Engineer
13 14 (4.38%) Lead
14 13 (4.06%) Network Architect
14 13 (4.06%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (15.00%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.50%) SAML
3 7 (2.19%) HTML
3 7 (2.19%) XML
4 5 (1.56%) XMPP
5 4 (1.25%) Akka
6 3 (0.94%) CSS
7 2 (0.63%) LAMP
7 2 (0.63%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.31%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.31%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 79 (24.69%) Data Centre
2 26 (8.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (4.06%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.06%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 10 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (2.50%) PKI
6 8 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (2.19%) Clustering
7 7 (2.19%) FMCG
8 6 (1.88%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.94%) Smart City
11 2 (0.63%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.63%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.06%) Linux
2 17 (5.31%) VyOS
3 16 (5.00%) Windows
4 10 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.50%) Unix
6 7 (2.19%) Android
6 7 (2.19%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.25%) Debian
8 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.63%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
10 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (15.31%) Network Design
2 45 (14.06%) Customer Service
3 40 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 37 (11.56%) Network Management
5 34 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 30 (9.38%) ITIL
8 26 (8.13%) Network Monitoring
9 25 (7.81%) Load Balancing
10 23 (7.19%) Information Security
11 22 (6.88%) High Availability
12 20 (6.25%) Network Architecture
13 18 (5.63%) Network Virtualisation
13 18 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (5.31%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (5.31%) Roadmaps
15 16 (5.00%) Project Delivery
16 15 (4.69%) Change Management
17 14 (4.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (4.06%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.81%) Python
2 22 (6.88%) PowerShell
3 8 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (0.31%) Go
4 1 (0.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 146 (45.63%) Cisco Certification
2 97 (30.31%) CCNP
3 82 (25.63%) CCNA
4 58 (18.13%) Security Cleared
5 45 (14.06%) CCIE
6 36 (11.25%) CCDP
7 29 (9.06%) JNCIA
8 26 (8.13%) Degree
9 20 (6.25%) SC Cleared
10 11 (3.44%) JNCIP
11 9 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.81%) JNCIS
12 8 (2.50%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 5 (1.56%) HNC
13 5 (1.56%) HND
13 5 (1.56%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.25%) Chartered Engineer
15 3 (0.94%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.94%) MCT
16 2 (0.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.19%) SLA
2 9 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.63%) Firmware
3 11 (3.44%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.56%) Docker
5 4 (1.25%) pfSense
5 4 (1.25%) vCloud
5 4 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.63%) NFS
7 2 (0.63%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (16.88%) FortiGate
2 14 (4.38%) Ansible
3 12 (3.75%) Puppet
4 10 (3.13%) Terraform
5 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.19%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (2.19%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.88%) WSUS
8 4 (1.25%) Nagios
8 4 (1.25%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.63%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.63%) Icinga
9 2 (0.63%) SCCM
10 1 (0.31%) CASB
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.31%) Grafana
10 1 (0.31%) Nessus
Vendors
1 211 (65.94%) Cisco
2 128 (40.00%) Juniper
3 87 (27.19%) Fortinet
4 40 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 35 (10.94%) Microsoft
5 35 (10.94%) Nokia
6 34 (10.63%) CheckPoint
6 34 (10.63%) Meraki
7 28 (8.75%) F5
8 27 (8.44%) SolarWinds
9 25 (7.81%) Aruba
10 24 (7.50%) Ruckus Wireless
11 18 (5.63%) McAfee
12 17 (5.31%) Vyatta
13 15 (4.69%) VMware
14 14 (4.38%) Citrix
15 13 (4.06%) Extreme Networks
16 12 (3.75%) HP
17 11 (3.44%) Arista
18 10 (3.13%) Google