Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 598 749
Rank change year-on-year +5 +151 -209
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 326 376 577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.40% 2.44% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 249 311 383
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.54% +8.15%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £85,000 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,603 15,428 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 16.28% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,727 11,819
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,419 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +72 314 £52,500 -4.55% 78
UK excluding London -10 237 £48,500 +2.11% 61
Work from Home +9 127 £51,500 -20.77% 50
South East -5 87 £52,750 +13.44% 19
London +67 82 £70,000 +7.69% 33
North of England +53 77 £42,500 -9.57% 13
North West +34 62 £40,000 -42.86% 8
Midlands +4 50 £48,500 -17.45% 7
West Midlands +15 49 £48,500 -19.17% 6
Yorkshire +49 18 £47,500 +5.56% 5
South West -31 16 £48,500 -3.00% 5
Scotland -65 8 £65,000 - 12
East of England -12 7 £62,500 +4.17% 2
North East -23 3 £62,500 +47.06% 1
Wales +5 1 £46,500 - 1
East Midlands -25 1 £60,000 +4.35% 1

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.45%) Skype for Business
2 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.18%) Azure
2 48 (14.72%) AWS
3 14 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.68%) AWS Direct Connect
4 12 (3.68%) IaaS
5 10 (3.07%) PaaS
5 10 (3.07%) SaaS
6 8 (2.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (1.53%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.53%) GCP
8 4 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.92%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.61%) OpenDNS
10 2 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.31%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 289 (88.65%) BGP
2 179 (54.91%) WAN
3 169 (51.84%) Firewall
4 161 (49.39%) MPLS
5 153 (46.93%) LAN
6 110 (33.74%) VPN
7 108 (33.13%) TCP/IP
8 106 (32.52%) SD-WAN
9 104 (31.90%) Wireless
10 75 (23.01%) VLAN
11 74 (22.70%) EIGRP
12 63 (19.33%) DHCP
13 61 (18.71%) IPsec
14 60 (18.40%) Network Security
15 58 (17.79%) DNS
16 54 (16.56%) Wi-Fi
17 49 (15.03%) Ethernet
18 47 (14.42%) Internet
19 45 (13.80%) Cisco ASA
19 45 (13.80%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.31%) MySQL
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.53%) JIRA
2 4 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.31%) GitLab
3 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (16.87%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.28%) Law
3 25 (7.67%) Finance
4 22 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.75%) Telecoms
5 11 (3.37%) Retail
6 10 (3.07%) Legal
7 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.23%) Publishing
9 3 (0.92%) Billing
9 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Military
10 2 (0.61%) Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Electronics
10 2 (0.61%) Front Office
10 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.31%) Automotive
11 1 (0.31%) Police
11 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (51.53%) Network Engineer
2 54 (16.56%) Senior
3 43 (13.19%) Analyst
3 43 (13.19%) Network Analyst
4 42 (12.88%) Senior Network Engineer
5 32 (9.82%) Network Operations Analyst
5 32 (9.82%) Operations Analyst
6 28 (8.59%) Network Support
7 27 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (6.75%) Cisco Engineer
8 22 (6.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 21 (6.44%) Architect
10 19 (5.83%) Support Engineer
11 18 (5.52%) IP Engineer
11 18 (5.52%) IP Network Engineer
12 17 (5.21%) Network Specialist
13 14 (4.29%) Juniper Engineer
13 14 (4.29%) Lead
13 14 (4.29%) Network Support Engineer
14 13 (3.99%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.72%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.45%) SAML
3 7 (2.15%) HTML
3 7 (2.15%) XML
4 5 (1.53%) XMPP
5 4 (1.23%) Akka
6 3 (0.92%) CSS
7 2 (0.61%) LAMP
7 2 (0.61%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.31%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.31%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 84 (25.77%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.99%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.68%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.07%) Client/Server
6 9 (2.76%) Clustering
7 8 (2.45%) PKI
7 8 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.15%) FMCG
9 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.23%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.92%) Smart City
13 2 (0.61%) Fibre Optics
13 2 (0.61%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.28%) Linux
2 18 (5.52%) VyOS
3 14 (4.29%) Windows
4 9 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.45%) Unix
6 7 (2.15%) Android
6 7 (2.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.92%) Debian
8 2 (0.61%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.31%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (15.34%) Network Design
2 45 (13.80%) Customer Service
3 42 (12.88%) Mentoring
4 37 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (11.04%) Network Management
6 30 (9.20%) Network Monitoring
7 29 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (8.59%) ITIL
9 26 (7.98%) Load Balancing
10 25 (7.67%) Network Architecture
11 23 (7.06%) Information Security
12 22 (6.75%) High Availability
13 21 (6.44%) Roadmaps
14 19 (5.83%) Network Virtualisation
14 19 (5.83%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (5.21%) Project Delivery
16 16 (4.91%) Change Management
17 15 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (3.99%) Cybersecurity
19 12 (3.68%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.36%) Python
2 21 (6.44%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.15%) Bash
4 1 (0.31%) Go
4 1 (0.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (47.85%) Cisco Certification
2 103 (31.60%) CCNP
3 88 (26.99%) CCNA
4 57 (17.48%) Security Cleared
5 52 (15.95%) CCIE
6 39 (11.96%) CCDP
7 31 (9.51%) JNCIA
8 27 (8.28%) Degree
9 19 (5.83%) SC Cleared
10 12 (3.68%) JNCIP
11 9 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.76%) JNCIS
12 8 (2.45%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 5 (1.53%) HNC
13 5 (1.53%) HND
13 5 (1.53%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
15 3 (0.92%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.92%) MCT
16 2 (0.61%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.44%) SLA
2 11 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (0.92%) NIST
3 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (7.36%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.91%) Firmware
3 13 (3.99%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.23%) Docker
5 4 (1.23%) vCloud
6 3 (0.92%) pfSense
6 3 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.61%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.31%) NFS
8 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (15.64%) FortiGate
2 15 (4.60%) Ansible
3 13 (3.99%) Puppet
4 9 (2.76%) Failover Clustering
4 9 (2.76%) Terraform
5 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.45%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.84%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.84%) WSUS
7 4 (1.23%) Nagios
7 4 (1.23%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.61%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.61%) Icinga
9 1 (0.31%) CASB
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.31%) Grafana
9 1 (0.31%) Nessus
9 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 213 (65.34%) Cisco
2 133 (40.80%) Juniper
3 87 (26.69%) Fortinet
4 40 (12.27%) Palo Alto
5 36 (11.04%) Nokia
6 35 (10.74%) Meraki
6 35 (10.74%) Microsoft
7 31 (9.51%) CheckPoint
8 29 (8.90%) F5
9 27 (8.28%) SolarWinds
10 26 (7.98%) Ruckus Wireless
11 23 (7.06%) Aruba
12 18 (5.52%) VMware
12 18 (5.52%) Vyatta
13 17 (5.21%) McAfee
14 12 (3.68%) Extreme Networks
14 12 (3.68%) HP
15 11 (3.37%) Arista
16 10 (3.07%) Citrix
16 10 (3.07%) Google