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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 646 703
Rank change year-on-year +109 +57 -184
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 315 294 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.32% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.59% 2.06% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 255 241 348
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -11.74% +8.15%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,750 £82,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% -4.35% +4.55%

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 12,141 14,305 17,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.25% 15.51% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 8,576 7,403 10,457
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,286
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 4 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 4 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 +16 81 £53,000 +13.98% 15
London +88 77 £65,000 - 31
North of England +39 76 £42,500 -7.61% 11
North West +53 63 £40,000 -42.86% 4
Midlands +46 57 £48,500 -19.17% 8
West Midlands +50 56 £48,500 -19.17% 4
South West -5 24 £48,500 -3.00% 7
Yorkshire +69 16 £49,000 +8.89% 6
East of England +14 5 £62,500 -9.09% 5
North East -20 3 £62,500 +49.70% 2
East Midlands -17 1 £60,000 +6.67% 4
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 (2.54%) Skype for Business
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) uWSGI
Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 55 (17.46%) Azure
2 46 (14.60%) AWS
3 14 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.81%) AWS Direct Connect
4 12 (3.81%) IaaS
5 7 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (2.22%) PaaS
5 7 (2.22%) SaaS
6 5 (1.59%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.27%) GCP
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.63%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.63%) OpenDNS
8 2 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.32%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 281 (89.21%) BGP
2 176 (55.87%) WAN
3 155 (49.21%) MPLS
4 154 (48.89%) LAN
5 152 (48.25%) Firewall
6 107 (33.97%) TCP/IP
7 103 (32.70%) VPN
8 102 (32.38%) SD-WAN
8 102 (32.38%) Wireless
9 80 (25.40%) VLAN
10 65 (20.63%) DNS
11 64 (20.32%) DHCP
12 63 (20.00%) EIGRP
13 52 (16.51%) IPsec
13 52 (16.51%) Network Security
14 48 (15.24%) Internet
15 47 (14.92%) Ethernet
15 47 (14.92%) Wi-Fi
16 45 (14.29%) WLAN
17 39 (12.38%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.59%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.63%) 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 (1.27%) JIRA
1 4 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.94%) Law
3 24 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (7.62%) Telecoms
4 18 (5.71%) Finance
5 10 (3.17%) Legal
6 9 (2.86%) Retail
7 5 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.59%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.27%) Military
8 4 (1.27%) Publishing
9 3 (0.95%) Banking
9 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Billing
10 2 (0.63%) Electronics
10 2 (0.63%) Front Office
10 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.63%) Police
11 1 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 161 (51.11%) Network Engineer
2 50 (15.87%) Senior
3 49 (15.56%) Analyst
3 49 (15.56%) Network Analyst
4 38 (12.06%) Senior Network Engineer
5 36 (11.43%) Network Operations Analyst
5 36 (11.43%) Operations Analyst
6 27 (8.57%) Network Support
7 25 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (6.98%) Architect
9 21 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
9 21 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 20 (6.35%) IP Engineer
10 20 (6.35%) IP Network Engineer
10 20 (6.35%) Support Engineer
11 15 (4.76%) Network Specialist
11 15 (4.76%) Network Support Engineer
12 14 (4.44%) Juniper Engineer
12 14 (4.44%) Lead
12 14 (4.44%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.56%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.54%) SAML
3 7 (2.22%) HTML
3 7 (2.22%) XML
4 5 (1.59%) XMPP
5 4 (1.27%) Akka
6 3 (0.95%) CSS
7 2 (0.63%) LAMP
7 2 (0.63%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 74 (23.49%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (4.13%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.81%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.49%) Virtual Team
6 10 (3.17%) Client/Server
6 10 (3.17%) PKI
7 8 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (2.22%) Clustering
8 7 (2.22%) FMCG
9 6 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.59%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.27%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.95%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.95%) Smart City
13 2 (0.63%) Molecular Biology
13 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.16%) Linux
2 19 (6.03%) VyOS
2 19 (6.03%) Windows
3 9 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.54%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.54%) Unix
5 7 (2.22%) Android
6 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
7 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Debian
8 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (13.65%) Network Design
1 43 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (13.33%) Customer Service
3 39 (12.38%) Mentoring
4 31 (9.84%) ITIL
5 30 (9.52%) Network Management
5 30 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
6 27 (8.57%) Load Balancing
7 25 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (7.94%) Network Architecture
8 21 (6.67%) High Availability
8 21 (6.67%) Information Security
9 18 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (5.40%) Change Management
10 17 (5.40%) Network Virtualisation
10 17 (5.40%) Project Delivery
10 17 (5.40%) Roadmaps
11 15 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (4.13%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (4.13%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.98%) Python
2 21 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (0.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (50.16%) Cisco Certification
2 102 (32.38%) CCNP
3 93 (29.52%) CCNA
4 57 (18.10%) CCIE
5 50 (15.87%) Security Cleared
6 44 (13.97%) CCDP
7 33 (10.48%) JNCIA
8 25 (7.94%) Degree
9 17 (5.40%) SC Cleared
10 9 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.54%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 8 (2.54%) JNCIP
12 7 (2.22%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.59%) HNC
13 5 (1.59%) HND
13 5 (1.59%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.27%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.95%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.95%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.03%) SLA
2 10 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.08%) Firmware
3 14 (4.44%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.59%) Docker
5 5 (1.59%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.27%) vCloud
6 4 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.95%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.63%) pfSense
8 2 (0.63%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (13.65%) FortiGate
2 13 (4.13%) Ansible
2 13 (4.13%) Puppet
3 10 (3.17%) Terraform
4 8 (2.54%) Nagios
4 8 (2.54%) Progress Chef
4 8 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (2.22%) Icinga
6 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.59%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.59%) SolarWinds Orion
7 5 (1.59%) WSUS
8 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.95%) Grafana
9 2 (0.63%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.63%) Nessus
9 2 (0.63%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 197 (62.54%) Cisco
2 128 (40.63%) Juniper
3 78 (24.76%) Fortinet
4 37 (11.75%) Nokia
5 32 (10.16%) Meraki
6 31 (9.84%) Microsoft
6 31 (9.84%) Palo Alto
7 29 (9.21%) CheckPoint
8 27 (8.57%) F5
8 27 (8.57%) Ruckus Wireless
9 22 (6.98%) SolarWinds
10 21 (6.67%) Aruba
10 21 (6.67%) VMware
11 19 (6.03%) Vyatta
12 11 (3.49%) Arista
12 11 (3.49%) Extreme Networks
12 11 (3.49%) HP
12 11 (3.49%) McAfee
13 10 (3.17%) Google
14 8 (2.54%) Tufin