OSPF Jobs in the South West

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for OSPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OSPF over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 259 256
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -54
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 24 13 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 0.18% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.93% 0.97% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 20 8 17
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,100 £47,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,869 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -28.57% +62.79%
75th Percentile £53,269 £78,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £64,020 £82,700 £76,250
England median annual salary £50,250 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.29% -8.70% +4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

OSPF is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,246 1,346 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.62% 19.13% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 934 575 693
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £26,350
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -2.70% +7.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for OSPF in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Gloucestershire -12 9 £50,286 -30.16% 2
Somerset +6 5 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Bristol +9 4 £52,500 - 4
Devon -10 3 £45,000 +0.90%
Cornwall - 2 £30,000 -
Wiltshire -8 1 £52,073 +4.15%
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England

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (83.33%) BGP
2 13 (54.17%) Firewall
3 10 (41.67%) VPN
4 9 (37.50%) WAN
5 8 (33.33%) MPLS
5 8 (33.33%) VLAN
5 8 (33.33%) Wireless
6 7 (29.17%) DNS
6 7 (29.17%) LAN
7 6 (25.00%) 802.11
7 6 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (25.00%) DHCP
7 6 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (16.67%) IPv4
8 4 (16.67%) NetScaler
8 4 (16.67%) VoIP
8 4 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Military
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Police
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Senior
3 6 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Network Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Network Operations Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Network Support
4 4 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) CMDB
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) ITIL
1 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (16.67%) Change Management
3 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 4 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (8.33%) IT Strategy
5 2 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps
6 1 (4.17%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.17%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Bash
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) CCNP
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (25.00%) CCIE
3 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) CCDP
4 4 (16.67%) CCNA
5 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
1 4 (16.67%) Puppet
2 3 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) Icinga
4 1 (4.17%) Kibana
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Cisco
2 7 (29.17%) Fortinet
2 7 (29.17%) Meraki
3 4 (16.67%) Citrix
3 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (8.33%) F5
4 2 (8.33%) Juniper
5 1 (4.17%) MikroTik
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) TP-LINK
5 1 (4.17%) ZyXEL