OSPF Jobs in the Midlands

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England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for OSPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OSPF over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 298 301
Rank change year-on-year +37 +3 -35
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 57 28 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.49% 0.29% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.59% 1.63% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41 23 45
10th Percentile - £41,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +9.09% +10.28%
75th Percentile £53,750 £75,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £81,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £50,250 £52,500 £59,483
% change year-on-year -4.29% -11.74% +8.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

OSPF is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,588 1,721 1,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.64% 17.88% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 728 1,089
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,283 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,375 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -0.29% -3.33%
75th Percentile £54,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,850
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for OSPF in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +61 56 £48,500 -19.17% 3
East Midlands -20 1 £60,000 +6.67% 3
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England

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.51%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.02%) AWS
2 3 (5.26%) Azure
3 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.51%) Mimecast
3 2 (3.51%) OpenDNS
4 1 (1.75%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 50 (87.72%) BGP
2 43 (75.44%) LAN
2 43 (75.44%) WAN
3 42 (73.68%) MPLS
4 39 (68.42%) SD-WAN
5 35 (61.40%) WLAN
6 18 (31.58%) VLAN
7 15 (26.32%) Firewall
7 15 (26.32%) Wireless
8 12 (21.05%) EIGRP
9 11 (19.30%) VPN
10 10 (17.54%) Network Security
11 9 (15.79%) DNS
11 9 (15.79%) HSRP
11 9 (15.79%) VRRP
11 9 (15.79%) Wireshark
12 7 (12.28%) Spanning Tree
12 7 (12.28%) VoIP
13 6 (10.53%) TCP/IP
14 5 (8.77%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Retail
3 6 (10.53%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.26%) Legal
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Law
6 1 (1.75%) Automotive
6 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (57.89%) Analyst
1 33 (57.89%) Network Analyst
2 32 (56.14%) Network Operations Analyst
2 32 (56.14%) Operations Analyst
3 15 (26.32%) Network Engineer
4 12 (21.05%) Senior
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Network Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Operations Analyst
6 5 (8.77%) Mobile Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Presales Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Presales Network Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) IT Support
8 2 (3.51%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) LAMP
1 2 (3.51%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) FMCG
2 5 (8.77%) PKI
3 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
1 3 (5.26%) Windows
1 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.75%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.79%) Change Management
2 8 (14.04%) Network Architecture
2 8 (14.04%) Network Virtualisation
3 7 (12.28%) Business Analysis
3 7 (12.28%) Demand Management
3 7 (12.28%) High Availability
3 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (12.28%) Project Delivery
3 7 (12.28%) Release Management
4 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (8.77%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (8.77%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 5 (8.77%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (7.02%) Load Balancing
5 4 (7.02%) Migration
6 3 (5.26%) Presales
6 3 (5.26%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (3.51%) DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (3.51%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (61.40%) CCNP
1 35 (61.40%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (57.89%) CCDP
2 33 (57.89%) CCIE
3 28 (49.12%) CCNA
4 7 (12.28%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.51%) Degree
6 1 (1.75%) HNC
6 1 (1.75%) HND
6 1 (1.75%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.75%) MCSE
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Firmware
2 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (3.51%) Docker
3 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.51%) pfSense
3 2 (3.51%) Terminal Services
3 2 (3.51%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Nagios
2 2 (3.51%) Ansible
2 2 (3.51%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.75%) Icinga
Vendors
1 27 (47.37%) Cisco
2 15 (26.32%) Juniper
3 13 (22.81%) Aruba
4 8 (14.04%) Palo Alto
5 7 (12.28%) CheckPoint
5 7 (12.28%) Ekahau
5 7 (12.28%) HP
6 6 (10.53%) Ericsson
6 6 (10.53%) Nokia
7 5 (8.77%) Meraki
8 4 (7.02%) F5
8 4 (7.02%) Fortinet
9 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
10 2 (3.51%) Acronis
10 2 (3.51%) Citrix
10 2 (3.51%) Riverbed
10 2 (3.51%) SonicWALL
10 2 (3.51%) Sophos
10 2 (3.51%) Veeam
10 2 (3.51%) Veritas