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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 332 346
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 +244
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 50 106 93
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.92% 5.24% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 27 67 74
10th Percentile £59,500 £33,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £56,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,250 £96,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -0.99%

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 1,711 2,021 2,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.49% 12.75% 12.60%
Number of salaries quoted 910 1,140 1,754
10th Percentile £28,697 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,688 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,375 £100,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
Central London +19 5 £74,000 +9.63% 13
East London - 2 - - 2
West London - 2 - - 1
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 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.00%) nginx
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) Azure
2 20 (40.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (8.00%) GCP
4 4 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (6.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (6.00%) SaaS
6 2 (4.00%) Dagster
7 1 (2.00%) Datadog
7 1 (2.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 50 (100.00%) BGP
2 44 (88.00%) Firewall
3 35 (70.00%) VPN
4 33 (66.00%) WAN
5 24 (48.00%) LAN
5 24 (48.00%) Wireless
6 19 (38.00%) EIGRP
6 19 (38.00%) SD-WAN
7 18 (36.00%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (26.00%) Network Security
8 13 (26.00%) TCP/IP
8 13 (26.00%) WLAN
9 12 (24.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 11 (22.00%) MPLS
10 11 (22.00%) VXLAN
11 10 (20.00%) IPsec
12 9 (18.00%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (18.00%) VLAN
13 8 (16.00%) Wireshark
14 7 (14.00%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (4.00%) Metadata
1 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.00%) MySQL
1 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) GitLab
2 2 (4.00%) Jaeger
2 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.00%) MLflow
2 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Marketing
5 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Agriculture
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Law
6 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Aviation
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (84.00%) Network Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) Senior
3 13 (26.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Deployment Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) ICT Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Sales Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) 802.1X
2 3 (6.00%) REST
3 2 (4.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.00%) Kafka
3 2 (4.00%) Keycloak
3 2 (4.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.00%) IoT
4 2 (4.00%) MPEG
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) PKI
4 2 (4.00%) Robotics
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.00%) e-Health
5 1 (2.00%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) Load Balancing
2 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (22.00%) High Availability
4 10 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 9 (18.00%) Kalman Filter
5 9 (18.00%) Network Monitoring
6 8 (16.00%) Incident Response
6 8 (16.00%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (14.00%) Cloud Security
7 7 (14.00%) Network Optimisation
8 6 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (12.00%) ITIL
8 6 (12.00%) Systems Analysis
8 6 (12.00%) Zero Trust
9 5 (10.00%) Business Continuity
9 5 (10.00%) Change Management
9 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (10.00%) Low Latency
9 5 (10.00%) Migration
9 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) Python
2 2 (4.00%) Bash
2 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (56.00%) CCNP
3 17 (34.00%) Degree
4 15 (30.00%) CCIE
5 9 (18.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (12.00%) CCNA
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
9 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
9 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
10 1 (2.00%) CCSA
10 1 (2.00%) CWDP
10 1 (2.00%) CWNA
10 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (2.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) PMO
2 4 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.00%) NIST
4 2 (4.00%) SLA
5 1 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.00%) ProxySG
3 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.00%) Docker
3 2 (4.00%) NFS
3 2 (4.00%) pfSense
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Ansible
2 5 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 4 (8.00%) Terraform
4 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.00%) Argo
5 2 (4.00%) CA Spectrum
5 2 (4.00%) Grafana
5 2 (4.00%) Nagios
5 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (88.00%) Cisco
2 22 (44.00%) SolarWinds
3 17 (34.00%) Palo Alto
4 14 (28.00%) F5
5 12 (24.00%) CheckPoint
6 11 (22.00%) Fortinet
6 11 (22.00%) Meraki
7 8 (16.00%) Arista
7 8 (16.00%) Aruba
7 8 (16.00%) Juniper
8 7 (14.00%) Infoblox
9 6 (12.00%) Motorola
10 5 (10.00%) ServiceNow
11 4 (8.00%) Blue Coat
12 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
12 3 (6.00%) Ekahau
13 2 (4.00%) MikroTik
13 2 (4.00%) Sonatype
13 2 (4.00%) Starlink
13 2 (4.00%) Ubiquiti