OSPF Jobs in London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 392 401
Rank change year-on-year +89 +9 +254
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 96 77 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.75% 0.38% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.89% 2.49% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 56 63 119
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,411 £42,850
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,875 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,700 £95,000
England median annual salary £56,121 £54,699 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.60% -0.55% -7.54%

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 1,962 3,092 2,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.27% 15.30% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 886 1,371 2,393
10th Percentile £31,338 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% -2.91% -1.90%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in London

OSPF
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for OSPF in London

OSPF
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in London over the 6 months to 14 August 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 14 August 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 +27 5 £75,000 -18.92% 2
West London - 3 - - 1
East London - 2 - -
South London - 1 £50,000 -
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 8 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.04%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.79%) AWS
2 39 (40.63%) Azure
3 14 (14.58%) AWS Direct Connect
4 13 (13.54%) GCP
5 4 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Akamai
7 1 (1.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (98.96%) BGP
2 84 (87.50%) Firewall
3 61 (63.54%) VPN
4 47 (48.96%) WAN
5 42 (43.75%) MPLS
6 37 (38.54%) LAN
7 32 (33.33%) SD-WAN
8 29 (30.21%) IPsec
9 27 (28.13%) WLAN
10 26 (27.08%) Network Security
11 23 (23.96%) EIGRP
11 23 (23.96%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (22.92%) Wireless
13 20 (20.83%) NX-OS
14 19 (19.79%) TCP/IP
15 18 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (17.71%) Cisco ISE
16 17 (17.71%) VXLAN
17 15 (15.63%) Cisco Firepower
18 14 (14.58%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.04%) Finance
3 24 (25.00%) Banking
4 14 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (10.42%) Mandarin Language
6 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.29%) Telecoms
8 6 (6.25%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.17%) Marketing
10 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.04%) Aviation
12 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.04%) Games
12 1 (1.04%) Legal
12 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (76.04%) Network Engineer
2 16 (16.67%) Senior
3 14 (14.58%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (10.42%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (10.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Network Operations Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Operations Engineer
6 7 (7.29%) Data Centre Engineer
6 7 (7.29%) Data Network Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Lead
8 5 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Infoblox Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Deployment Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.54%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (1.04%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (40.63%) Data Centre
2 24 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.25%) IPTV
4 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.08%) PKI
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.04%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (27.08%) High Availability
3 21 (21.88%) Network Monitoring
4 19 (19.79%) Incident Response
5 17 (17.71%) ITIL
5 17 (17.71%) Load Balancing
6 15 (15.63%) Change Management
6 15 (15.63%) Network Segmentation
7 14 (14.58%) Process Improvement
7 14 (14.58%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (13.54%) Cloud Security
8 13 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (11.46%) Cost Optimisation
10 11 (11.46%) Incident Management
10 11 (11.46%) Information Security
10 11 (11.46%) Network Architecture
10 11 (11.46%) Network Management
10 11 (11.46%) Penetration Testing
10 11 (11.46%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.29%) Python
2 13 (13.54%) Bash
3 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (52.08%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (41.67%) CCNP
3 32 (33.33%) CCNA
4 27 (28.13%) Degree
5 15 (15.63%) CCIE
6 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.21%) CCSA
8 4 (4.17%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.17%) CCSE
9 2 (2.08%) CWDP
9 2 (2.08%) CWNA
9 2 (2.08%) JNCIP
9 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.08%) Security Cleared
10 1 (1.04%) CCDP
10 1 (1.04%) CEH
10 1 (1.04%) CWNE
10 1 (1.04%) CWSP
10 1 (1.04%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.04%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) PMO
2 2 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) NIST
3 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Firmware
2 4 (4.17%) ProxySG
2 4 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.13%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.08%) pfSense
5 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) Ansible
2 11 (11.46%) Nagios
3 5 (5.21%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.13%) Terraform
5 1 (1.04%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.04%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.04%) vRealize
5 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (77.08%) Cisco
2 51 (53.13%) SolarWinds
3 34 (35.42%) CheckPoint
4 26 (27.08%) Fortinet
5 24 (25.00%) F5
6 20 (20.83%) Meraki
6 20 (20.83%) Palo Alto
7 19 (19.79%) Juniper
8 14 (14.58%) Dynatrace
8 14 (14.58%) Infoblox
9 13 (13.54%) Arista
10 6 (6.25%) Aruba
10 6 (6.25%) Bloomberg
10 6 (6.25%) Refinitiv
11 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
12 4 (4.17%) Blue Coat
12 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
12 4 (4.17%) Motorola
12 4 (4.17%) Riverbed
13 3 (3.13%) VMware