OSPF Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring OSPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.063% - 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.33% - 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,761 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.35%
75th Percentile £69,390 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £65,576 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +56.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 75 37 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.69% 8.98% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 65 33 166
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,770 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +37.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £48,750 £68,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £58,800 £82,500 £67,968
North East median annual salary £35,000 £49,375 £42,500
% change year-on-year -29.11% +16.18% +4.47%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OSPF relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

OSPF job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

OSPF
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing OSPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing OSPF

OSPF
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £65,576 - 4
OSPF
North East

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto