OSPF Job Trends in Cheltenham

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring OSPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.11% 2.13% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.86% 27.27% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,000 - £48,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 35 11 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 3.84% 7.80% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 28 4 36
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,800 £48,750
25th Percentile £44,063 £32,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £69,688 £70,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,125 £79,875 £70,625
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +17.65%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

OSPF
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing OSPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing OSPF

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware