OSPF Jobs in the South West

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 161 271 263
Rank change year-on-year +110 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 15 24 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.84% 1.92% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 8
10th Percentile £48,254 £41,250 £43,100
25th Percentile £49,795 £46,250 £46,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,121 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -3.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £57,057 £53,269 £78,500
90th Percentile £57,102 £64,020 £82,700
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 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 529 1,250 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.80% 13.46% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 327 923 553
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,057 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

OSPF
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

OSPF
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

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 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
Somerset +10 6 £56,121 +18.15%
Gloucestershire +62 4 £45,000 -10.51% 4
Bristol +64 3 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Devon +22 2 £51,729 +14.95% 2
OSPF
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 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) Firewall
1 11 (73.33%) WAN
2 9 (60.00%) EIGRP
3 7 (46.67%) BGP
3 7 (46.67%) VPN
4 6 (40.00%) RIP
4 6 (40.00%) SNMP
4 6 (40.00%) SSH
5 5 (33.33%) LAN
5 5 (33.33%) Network Security
5 5 (33.33%) VLAN
6 4 (26.67%) MPLS
6 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
7 3 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (13.33%) IPv4
9 1 (6.67%) SSL
9 1 (6.67%) WLAN
General
1 6 (40.00%) Police
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Senior
3 6 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Network Management
2 7 (46.67%) Network Design
3 6 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (40.00%) Inventory Management
3 6 (40.00%) Line Management
3 6 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 6 (40.00%) Technical Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) Business Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
6 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
6 2 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
6 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
6 2 (13.33%) Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CCIE
3 2 (13.33%) CCNP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Cisco
2 9 (60.00%) SolarWinds
3 8 (53.33%) CheckPoint
4 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
5 4 (26.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (13.33%) Citrix
6 2 (13.33%) F5
6 2 (13.33%) Juniper
7 1 (6.67%) Meraki
7 1 (6.67%) VMware