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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 639 702
Rank change year-on-year +96 +63 -196
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 312 296 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.58% 2.09% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 252 242 351
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £52,500 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -11.74% +8.15%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,125 £82,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,250 £55,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -8.64% -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 12,087 14,146 17,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.09% 15.64% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8,543 7,281 10,354
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,011 £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 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +15 80 £52,750 +13.44% 15
London +90 76 £70,000 +7.69% 30
North of England +47 75 £42,500 -9.57% 14
North West +48 62 £40,000 -42.86% 7
Midlands +32 57 £48,500 -16.74% 5
West Midlands +45 56 £48,500 -16.74% 3
South West -11 24 £48,500 -3.00% 7
Yorkshire +61 16 £49,000 +8.89% 6
East of England +3 5 £62,500 +4.17% 4
North East -19 3 £62,500 +49.70% 2
East Midlands -18 1 £60,000 +6.67% 2
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 (2.56%) Skype for Business
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (17.31%) Azure
2 45 (14.42%) AWS
3 14 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
4 12 (3.85%) IaaS
5 7 (2.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (2.24%) PaaS
5 7 (2.24%) SaaS
6 5 (1.60%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.28%) GCP
8 2 (0.64%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.64%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.64%) OpenDNS
8 2 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.32%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 278 (89.10%) BGP
2 174 (55.77%) WAN
3 153 (49.04%) MPLS
4 151 (48.40%) LAN
5 149 (47.76%) Firewall
6 107 (34.29%) TCP/IP
7 102 (32.69%) SD-WAN
7 102 (32.69%) Wireless
8 101 (32.37%) VPN
9 81 (25.96%) VLAN
10 65 (20.83%) DNS
11 63 (20.19%) EIGRP
12 61 (19.55%) DHCP
13 50 (16.03%) IPsec
13 50 (16.03%) Network Security
14 47 (15.06%) Ethernet
15 46 (14.74%) Internet
15 46 (14.74%) Wi-Fi
16 45 (14.42%) WLAN
17 39 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.32%) MySQL
3 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.28%) JIRA
1 4 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (18.91%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (8.01%) Law
3 22 (7.05%) Telecoms
4 17 (5.45%) Finance
5 9 (2.88%) Legal
5 9 (2.88%) Retail
6 5 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (1.60%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.28%) Military
7 4 (1.28%) Publishing
8 3 (0.96%) Banking
9 2 (0.64%) Billing
9 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.64%) Electronics
9 2 (0.64%) Front Office
9 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.64%) Police
10 1 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 158 (50.64%) Network Engineer
2 50 (16.03%) Senior
3 48 (15.38%) Analyst
3 48 (15.38%) Network Analyst
4 38 (12.18%) Senior Network Engineer
5 36 (11.54%) Network Operations Analyst
5 36 (11.54%) Operations Analyst
6 25 (8.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (8.01%) Network Support
7 22 (7.05%) Architect
8 21 (6.73%) Cisco Engineer
8 21 (6.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 18 (5.77%) IP Engineer
9 18 (5.77%) IP Network Engineer
9 18 (5.77%) Support Engineer
10 15 (4.81%) Network Specialist
11 14 (4.49%) Juniper Engineer
11 14 (4.49%) Lead
11 14 (4.49%) Network Architect
12 13 (4.17%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.71%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.56%) SAML
3 7 (2.24%) HTML
3 7 (2.24%) XML
4 5 (1.60%) XMPP
5 4 (1.28%) Akka
6 3 (0.96%) CSS
7 2 (0.64%) LAMP
7 2 (0.64%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 74 (23.72%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.53%) Virtual Team
6 10 (3.21%) Client/Server
6 10 (3.21%) PKI
7 8 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (2.24%) Clustering
8 7 (2.24%) FMCG
9 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.60%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.60%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.28%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.96%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.96%) Smart City
13 2 (0.64%) Fibre Optics
13 2 (0.64%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.94%) Linux
2 18 (5.77%) VyOS
2 18 (5.77%) Windows
3 9 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.56%) Unix
5 7 (2.24%) Android
5 7 (2.24%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.64%) Debian
7 2 (0.64%) VMS
7 2 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (13.46%) Network Design
3 41 (13.14%) Customer Service
4 39 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 31 (9.94%) ITIL
5 31 (9.94%) Network Monitoring
6 30 (9.62%) Network Management
7 27 (8.65%) Load Balancing
8 26 (8.33%) Network Architecture
9 25 (8.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (6.73%) High Availability
10 21 (6.73%) Information Security
11 18 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (5.45%) Network Virtualisation
12 17 (5.45%) Project Delivery
12 17 (5.45%) Roadmaps
13 16 (5.13%) Change Management
14 15 (4.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (4.17%) DevOps
16 12 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.05%) Python
2 21 (6.73%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.88%) Bash
4 1 (0.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 157 (50.32%) Cisco Certification
2 103 (33.01%) CCNP
3 91 (29.17%) CCNA
4 57 (18.27%) CCIE
5 48 (15.38%) Security Cleared
6 44 (14.10%) CCDP
7 31 (9.94%) JNCIA
8 26 (8.33%) Degree
9 16 (5.13%) SC Cleared
10 9 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.56%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 8 (2.56%) JNCIP
11 8 (2.56%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.60%) HNC
12 5 (1.60%) HND
12 5 (1.60%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.28%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.96%) MCT
15 2 (0.64%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.09%) SLA
2 10 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (8.01%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.13%) Firmware
3 14 (4.49%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.60%) Docker
4 5 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.60%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.28%) vCloud
5 4 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.64%) pfSense
7 2 (0.64%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (13.46%) FortiGate
2 13 (4.17%) Ansible
2 13 (4.17%) Puppet
3 10 (3.21%) Terraform
4 9 (2.88%) Nagios
5 8 (2.56%) Icinga
5 8 (2.56%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.24%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.60%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.60%) SolarWinds Orion
8 5 (1.60%) WSUS
9 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.96%) Grafana
10 2 (0.64%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.64%) Nessus
10 2 (0.64%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 196 (62.82%) Cisco
2 126 (40.38%) Juniper
3 77 (24.68%) Fortinet
4 36 (11.54%) Nokia
5 32 (10.26%) Meraki
6 31 (9.94%) Microsoft
7 29 (9.29%) CheckPoint
7 29 (9.29%) Palo Alto
8 27 (8.65%) F5
9 26 (8.33%) Ruckus Wireless
10 23 (7.37%) SolarWinds
11 21 (6.73%) Aruba
12 19 (6.09%) VMware
13 18 (5.77%) Vyatta
14 11 (3.53%) Arista
14 11 (3.53%) Extreme Networks
14 11 (3.53%) HP
14 11 (3.53%) McAfee
15 10 (3.21%) Google
16 8 (2.56%) Ribbon