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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.080% - 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% - 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,761 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.35%
75th Percentile £69,390 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £65,576 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -19.35%

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 56 25 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.51% 7.91% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 48 23 142
10th Percentile £26,900 £36,500 £25,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +43.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £50,443 £76,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £74,449 £82,500 £67,968
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +37.50% -5.88%

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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto