OSPF Jobs in Gloucestershire

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring OSPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OSPF over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 127 114
Rank change year-on-year +64 -13 -7
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 5 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.97% 0.40% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.26% 2.24% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £65,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -32.64% +2.86%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,563 £78,500
90th Percentile - £70,625 -
South West median annual salary £56,121 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.71% -7.62% -25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 54 312 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.42% 17.62% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 23 229 83
10th Percentile £27,900 £27,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,125 £31,625 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +14.12% -16.67%
75th Percentile £58,125 £56,250 £61,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £77,250
South West median annual salary £37,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -22.11% +5.56% -6.25%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Gloucestershire

OSPF
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for OSPF in Gloucestershire

OSPF
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Cheltenham +42 4 - -
OSPF
South West

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) IPv4
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) MPLS
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Re-Platforming
1 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (40.00%) CCIE
3 2 (40.00%) CCNP
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) VMware