OSPF Job Trends in the South West

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring OSPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 164 220
Rank change year-on-year -68 +56 -65
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 10 8 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.095% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.50% 1.39% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £46,600 £48,894 £52,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,197 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,811 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £57,234 £76,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 666 576 730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.36% 16.04% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 370 363 427
10th Percentile £26,740 £26,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £34,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -31.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,125 £52,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,600 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OSPF relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

OSPF job vacancy trend in the South West

OSPF
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing OSPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing OSPF

OSPF
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the South West over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the South West

OSPF
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 8 October 2026. 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 -62 6 £57,000 - 1
Somerset -24 1 - - 1
Bristol -47 1 £55,000 +3.77%
OSPF
England

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) BGP
2 9 (90.00%) Wireless
3 8 (80.00%) WAN
4 7 (70.00%) LAN
4 7 (70.00%) SD-WAN
5 6 (60.00%) VPN
5 6 (60.00%) WLAN
6 5 (50.00%) DNS
6 5 (50.00%) Firewall
6 5 (50.00%) VLAN
7 4 (40.00%) Network Security
8 3 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (30.00%) EIGRP
8 3 (30.00%) HSRP
8 3 (30.00%) VRRP
9 2 (20.00%) NGFW
10 1 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (10.00%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (40.00%) CMDB
2 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
1 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
3 4 (40.00%) ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (40.00%) Resilience Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Risk Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CCNP
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) KVM
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (10.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (50.00%) Meraki
3 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds
4 4 (40.00%) Avaya
4 4 (40.00%) F5
4 4 (40.00%) Infoblox
4 4 (40.00%) Netskope
4 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (30.00%) Aruba
6 2 (20.00%) Juniper
6 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (10.00%) Arista
7 1 (10.00%) Dell
7 1 (10.00%) HP
7 1 (10.00%) VMware