OSPF Jobs in the South East

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 269 282
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +104
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 55 111 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.66% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.53% 4.26% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 50 69 59
10th Percentile £31,500 £41,263 £44,100
25th Percentile £41,563 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,375 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £52,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.37% -4.09% -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,558 2,606 2,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.12% 15.59% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 800 1,700 1,352
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,250 £27,025
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +2.15% -2.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £73,775 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £36,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -24.21% -5.47% -4.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for OSPF in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the South East over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Hampshire +56 32 £53,000 -3.64% 5
Surrey +38 16 £35,000 -74.55% 1
Thames Valley +8 6 £52,500 -0.94% 2
Berkshire -1 5 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £45,000 -
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 11 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.91%) AWS
2 5 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.82%) SaaS
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (100.00%) BGP
2 33 (60.00%) Firewall
3 31 (56.36%) EIGRP
4 20 (36.36%) Network Security
4 20 (36.36%) WAN
5 18 (32.73%) LAN
6 16 (29.09%) Cisco ASA
7 15 (27.27%) VPN
8 12 (21.82%) TCP/IP
9 9 (16.36%) IPsec
9 9 (16.36%) VLAN
10 8 (14.55%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (14.55%) DMVPN
11 7 (12.73%) MPLS
12 6 (10.91%) SD-WAN
13 5 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (9.09%) HSRP
13 5 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (7.27%) SSL
General
1 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.45%) Advertising
3 1 (1.82%) Finance
3 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (67.27%) Network Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) 1st Line Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Designer
3 8 (14.55%) Network Designer
3 8 (14.55%) Network Security Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Security Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
4 5 (9.09%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco Support
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco Support Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) IT Support
4 5 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Network Support
4 5 (9.09%) Network Support Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.82%) JSON
2 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (34.55%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.91%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.18%) Network Design
1 10 (18.18%) Project Delivery
2 7 (12.73%) Impact Assessments
3 6 (10.91%) Presales
4 5 (9.09%) BCP
4 5 (9.09%) Business Continuity
4 5 (9.09%) Business Continuity Planning
4 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (9.09%) Data Centre Operations
4 5 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (9.09%) Network Architecture
4 5 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (9.09%) Server Management
4 5 (9.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (7.27%) Agile
5 4 (7.27%) Mentoring
6 2 (3.64%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (3.64%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (1.82%) Customer Service
Qualifications
1 34 (61.82%) Security Cleared
2 29 (52.73%) SC Cleared
3 28 (50.91%) DV Cleared
4 21 (38.18%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (30.91%) CCNA
6 10 (18.18%) CCNP
7 6 (10.91%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.82%) CCIE
8 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.82%) JNCIA
System Software
1 11 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (38.18%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 49 (89.09%) Cisco
2 38 (69.09%) Juniper
3 37 (67.27%) Fortinet
4 11 (20.00%) VMware
5 7 (12.73%) McAfee
6 4 (7.27%) F5
7 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.82%) SonicWALL