OSPF Job Trends in Birmingham

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring OSPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 121 73
Rank change year-on-year +22 -48 +72
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 4 5 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.23% 0.27% 2.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.45% 1.98% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 19
10th Percentile £58,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £85,000
90th Percentile £75,500 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £63,750 £35,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +82.14% -36.36% -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

OSPF falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 163 253 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.48% 13.41% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 99 103 207
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,625 £43,375 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £68,125 £68,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OSPF relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

OSPF job vacancy trend in Birmingham

OSPF
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing OSPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing OSPF

OSPF
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for OSPF in Birmingham

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) IPsec
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (75.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Control
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Value Proposition
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Presales
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Meraki
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
2 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Zscaler