OSPF Jobs in the North West

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 239 279
Rank change year-on-year -37 +40 +49
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 7 62 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.093% 0.55% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.46% 5.20% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6 53 14
10th Percentile £51,875 £32,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £53,438 £37,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £40,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.88% -43.66% +35.24%
75th Percentile £70,000 £50,000 £78,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £62,000 £83,125
England median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,514 1,192 1,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.05% 10.66% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 541 883 606
10th Percentile - £26,000 £26,375
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £44,250 £61,250 £62,833
90th Percentile £62,500 £70,900 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for OSPF in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the North West over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Manchester +19 4 £57,500 +43.75% 3
Cumbria - 2 £61,250 - 2
Lancashire -60 1 £60,000 +20.00% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) BGP
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (71.43%) EIGRP
4 4 (57.14%) HSRP
4 4 (57.14%) IPsec
5 2 (28.57%) LAN
5 2 (28.57%) VPN
5 2 (28.57%) WAN
6 1 (14.29%) DHCP
6 1 (14.29%) DNS
6 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
6 1 (14.29%) Network Security
6 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
6 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (14.29%) VLAN
6 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Domain Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Network Management
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) CheckPoint
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) VMware