OSPF Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring OSPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 1 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.20% - 3.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.92% - 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £81,250
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +126.67%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary - - £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +126.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 52 58 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 10.51% 7.77% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 49 28 60
10th Percentile £28,250 - £29,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £37,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £50,625 £46,311 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,750 £62,375 £85,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £29,000 £38,000 £39,907
% change year-on-year -23.68% -4.78% +6.42%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

OSPF job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

OSPF
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing OSPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing OSPF

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) VMware