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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 315 325
Rank change year-on-year +108 +10 +34
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 92 82 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.98% 0.49% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.46% 2.97% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 87 53 64
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,700 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +12.90% -22.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £58,125
90th Percentile £66,250 £131,000 £75,375
England median annual salary £53,000 £50,250 £54,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% -6.94% -10.00%

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 1,425 2,758 2,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.13% 16.41% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 767 1,879 1,488
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,600
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,875 £62,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

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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 13 May 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 13 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
Hampshire +101 69 £53,000 +1.44% 6
Surrey +56 16 £35,000 -74.55% 1
Thames Valley +37 6 £52,500 -0.94% 11
Berkshire +19 5 £52,500 +5.00% 10
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 (11.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.87%) AWS
2 6 (6.52%) Azure
3 4 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (4.35%) SaaS
3 4 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 92 (100.00%) BGP
2 65 (70.65%) Firewall
3 61 (66.30%) EIGRP
4 49 (53.26%) Network Security
5 23 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
6 22 (23.91%) VPN
6 22 (23.91%) WAN
7 18 (19.57%) LAN
8 17 (18.48%) TCP/IP
9 14 (15.22%) DMVPN
10 13 (14.13%) IPsec
11 9 (9.78%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (9.78%) SSL
11 9 (9.78%) VLAN
12 8 (8.70%) MPLS
13 7 (7.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (6.52%) SD-WAN
15 5 (5.43%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (5.43%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (5.43%) RIP
General
1 11 (11.96%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.43%) Advertising
3 1 (1.09%) Finance
3 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (79.35%) Network Engineer
2 26 (28.26%) Network Security Engineer
2 26 (28.26%) Security Engineer
3 17 (18.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 17 (18.48%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 11 (11.96%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) 1st Line Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Cisco Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Designer
7 8 (8.70%) Network Designer
7 8 (8.70%) Network Support
7 8 (8.70%) Network Support Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) 1st Line Support
8 5 (5.43%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Cisco Support Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.35%) 802.1X
1 4 (4.35%) JSON
1 4 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.26%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.52%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (11.96%) Network Design
2 9 (9.78%) Project Delivery
3 7 (7.61%) Network Architecture
4 6 (6.52%) Boundary Protection
4 6 (6.52%) Impact Assessments
4 6 (6.52%) Presales
5 5 (5.43%) Agile
5 5 (5.43%) BCP
5 5 (5.43%) Business Continuity
5 5 (5.43%) Business Continuity Planning
5 5 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (5.43%) Data Centre Operations
5 5 (5.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (5.43%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (5.43%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (5.43%) Server Management
5 5 (5.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (4.35%) Change Management
6 4 (4.35%) Mentoring
7 2 (2.17%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 72 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 63 (68.48%) DV Cleared
3 59 (64.13%) SC Cleared
4 33 (35.87%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (20.65%) CCNA
6 16 (17.39%) CCNP
7 6 (6.52%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.17%) CCIE
9 1 (1.09%) Degree
9 1 (1.09%) JNCIA
System Software
1 12 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.09%) Firmware
3 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (29.35%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.26%) Ansible
3 2 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 83 (90.22%) Cisco
2 67 (72.83%) Fortinet
3 45 (48.91%) Juniper
4 12 (13.04%) VMware
5 7 (7.61%) McAfee
6 5 (5.43%) F5
7 2 (2.17%) Mellanox
7 2 (2.17%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.09%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.09%) Citrix
8 1 (1.09%) Dell