OSPF Jobs in the North of England

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 308 359
Rank change year-on-year -9 +51 +51
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 24 75 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.14% 3.45% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14 67 47
10th Percentile £43,799 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £42,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.12% -9.57% +14.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £48,750 £58,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £55,000 £78,600
England median annual salary £53,000 £50,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.95% -7.34% -9.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,102 2,175 3,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.96% 12.30% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 880 1,662 1,261
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -5.56% -1.10%
75th Percentile £52,625 £61,250 £58,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the North of England.

Salary trend for OSPF in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Yorkshire +65 16 £75,000 +55.44% 15
North West -57 8 £57,500 +43.75% 4
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England

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (20.83%) GCP
5 4 (16.67%) OCI
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (95.83%) BGP
2 20 (83.33%) Firewall
3 17 (70.83%) TCP/IP
4 11 (45.83%) EIGRP
5 9 (37.50%) Network Security
6 8 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (33.33%) VPN
6 8 (33.33%) Wireless
7 7 (29.17%) IPsec
7 7 (29.17%) MPLS
7 7 (29.17%) WAN
8 6 (25.00%) SD-WAN
8 6 (25.00%) VLAN
9 5 (20.83%) HSRP
10 3 (12.50%) LAN
10 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (8.33%) PSTN
11 2 (8.33%) VoIP
11 2 (8.33%) WLAN
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Local Government
4 2 (8.33%) Police
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Domain Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (20.83%) Incident Management
3 5 (20.83%) ITSM
3 5 (20.83%) Line Management
3 5 (20.83%) Network Design
3 5 (20.83%) Network Management
3 5 (20.83%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) Degree
3 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (12.50%) CCNA
5 1 (4.17%) CCIE
5 1 (4.17%) CCNP
5 1 (4.17%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) Docker
3 4 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Ansible
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (20.83%) WSUS
4 1 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.17%) SCCM
4 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Cisco
2 10 (41.67%) VMware
3 8 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (20.83%) Draytek
5 5 (20.83%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.17%) Juniper