OSPF Job Trends in Manchester

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring OSPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 156 167
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +62
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 3 5 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.056% 0.23% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 2.33% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 44
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £52,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £56,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% +40.63% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,938 £48,750
90th Percentile - £78,875 £55,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% +43.75% -42.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 573 215 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.63% 9.68% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 194 134 444
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,875 £35,590
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,539 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,712 £77,500 £76,250
North West median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -5.26%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in Manchester

OSPF
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OSPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OSPF

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) gRPC
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Aruba
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco