OSPF Job Trends in London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring OSPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 327 418
Rank change year-on-year -12 +91 +153
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 56 81 71
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.33% 0.60% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.79% 5.21% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 28 67 62
10th Percentile £60,250 £33,200 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,688 £48,750 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £103,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £95,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,009 1,554 2,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.86% 11.44% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 968 2,117
10th Percentile £28,697 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,706 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +6.40% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,000 £105,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £53,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.75% +9.28% -4.98%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in London

OSPF
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OSPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OSPF

OSPF
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for OSPF in London

OSPF
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the London region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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
Central London +7 5 £74,000 +31.56% 5
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.79%) Confluence
1 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) AWS
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 15 (26.79%) AWS Direct Connect
3 12 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (19.64%) SaaS
5 5 (8.93%) GCP
6 4 (7.14%) Datadog
7 3 (5.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.57%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.79%) Dagster
9 1 (1.79%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 56 (100.00%) BGP
2 49 (87.50%) Firewall
3 45 (80.36%) WAN
4 41 (73.21%) SD-WAN
5 38 (67.86%) VPN
6 31 (55.36%) Cisco ISE
7 28 (50.00%) LAN
8 25 (44.64%) MPLS
9 22 (39.29%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (37.50%) Wireless
11 20 (35.71%) VXLAN
12 19 (33.93%) Cisco Firepower
13 18 (32.14%) Network Security
14 17 (30.36%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (28.57%) IPsec
15 16 (28.57%) WLAN
16 14 (25.00%) NX-OS
17 13 (23.21%) EIGRP
18 12 (21.43%) VoIP
19 11 (19.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.79%) Metadata
1 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.79%) MySQL
1 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) MLflow
2 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Retail Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Banking
5 3 (5.36%) Marketing
6 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.57%) Law
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (89.29%) Network Engineer
2 14 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 14 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Senior
3 12 (21.43%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (17.86%) Firewall Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Network Operations Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Network Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Network Operations Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Sales Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.36%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.79%) Kafka
3 1 (1.79%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.79%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (16.07%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.93%) PKI
3 5 (8.93%) Security Posture
4 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.79%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.79%) e-Health
7 1 (1.79%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.79%) IoT
7 1 (1.79%) MPEG
7 1 (1.79%) Robotics
7 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 13 (23.21%) Load Balancing
3 13 (23.21%) Network Segmentation
4 12 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (19.64%) High Availability
5 11 (19.64%) ITIL
5 11 (19.64%) Kalman Filter
5 11 (19.64%) Network Monitoring
6 9 (16.07%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 9 (16.07%) Network Design
6 9 (16.07%) Runbook
7 7 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.71%) Observability
9 5 (8.93%) Business Continuity
9 5 (8.93%) Change Management
9 5 (8.93%) Low Latency
10 4 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (53.57%) CCNP
3 11 (19.64%) CCIE
4 10 (17.86%) Degree
5 6 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Certification
6 5 (8.93%) CCNA
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.57%) CCSA
8 2 (3.57%) CCSE
9 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) NIST
2 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.57%) PMO
4 2 (3.57%) SLA
5 1 (1.79%) GDPR
5 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.79%) Docker
3 1 (1.79%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Ansible
1 8 (14.29%) Check_MK
2 7 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 4 (7.14%) Nagios
4 2 (3.57%) Terraform
5 1 (1.79%) Argo
5 1 (1.79%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (1.79%) Grafana
5 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (94.64%) Cisco
2 34 (60.71%) SolarWinds
3 27 (48.21%) Palo Alto
4 22 (39.29%) Meraki
5 20 (35.71%) Fortinet
6 16 (28.57%) CheckPoint
7 13 (23.21%) Arista
8 11 (19.64%) Dynatrace
9 9 (16.07%) ServiceNow
10 7 (12.50%) F5
11 6 (10.71%) Infoblox
12 5 (8.93%) Juniper
12 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
13 4 (7.14%) Aruba
14 3 (5.36%) ForeScout
14 3 (5.36%) SevOne
14 3 (5.36%) Splunk
14 3 (5.36%) VMware
15 2 (3.57%) Google
15 2 (3.57%) Motorola