Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 588 535
Rank change year-on-year +77 -53 +244
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 223 324 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.33% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.83% 2.59% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 157 243 331
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -5.97%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,167 12,526 13,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.14% 12.58% 15.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,811 8,336 7,508
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £47,500 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -7.90% -1.77%
75th Percentile £56,625 £63,750 £70,083
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -35.56% - -5.26%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the UK over the 6 months to 19 July 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
England +31 206 £54,500 +2.83% 93
UK excluding London +22 116 £52,500 +5.00% 61
London +110 101 £65,000 -7.14% 55
Work from Home +20 56 £65,000 +13.04% 38
South East +7 55 £52,000 -5.45% 17
North of England -7 26 £60,000 +37.14% 14
Yorkshire +39 18 £75,000 +57.89% 4
South West +92 11 £55,000 +13.40% 3
Scotland +92 8 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North West -39 8 £60,000 +41.18% 10
Midlands +45 7 £35,000 -27.84% 9
West Midlands +29 7 £35,000 -27.84% 5
East of England +10 5 £50,000 -20.00% 2
Wales +35 3 £55,000 +18.28% 5
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 -

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.45%) IIS
2 1 (0.45%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 19 (8.52%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.45%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 71 (31.84%) Azure
2 64 (28.70%) AWS
3 22 (9.87%) GCP
4 14 (6.28%) AWS Direct Connect
5 9 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.69%) OCI
7 5 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.90%) Akamai
9 2 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.90%) Serverless
10 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.45%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.45%) IaaS
10 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 212 (95.07%) BGP
2 169 (75.78%) Firewall
3 104 (46.64%) VPN
4 100 (44.84%) WAN
5 77 (34.53%) TCP/IP
6 76 (34.08%) LAN
7 73 (32.74%) MPLS
8 69 (30.94%) EIGRP
9 67 (30.04%) Network Security
10 57 (25.56%) SD-WAN
11 52 (23.32%) VLAN
12 49 (21.97%) IPsec
13 40 (17.94%) Cisco ASA
14 39 (17.49%) Wireless
15 33 (14.80%) Wi-Fi
16 32 (14.35%) WLAN
17 28 (12.56%) Cisco Firepower
18 26 (11.66%) Cisco Nexus
19 25 (11.21%) VXLAN
20 24 (10.76%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.90%) JMeter
1 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.45%) GitLab
2 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 55 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.56%) Finance
3 25 (11.21%) Banking
4 19 (8.52%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.38%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.93%) Retail
8 10 (4.48%) Mandarin Language
9 6 (2.69%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.69%) Police
10 5 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.24%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.79%) Automotive
11 4 (1.79%) Local Government
11 4 (1.79%) Marketing
12 3 (1.35%) Advertising
13 2 (0.90%) Aviation
13 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (65.02%) Network Engineer
2 28 (12.56%) Senior
3 22 (9.87%) Senior Network Engineer
4 18 (8.07%) Cisco Engineer
4 18 (8.07%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 18 (8.07%) Lead
5 15 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (5.83%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (4.93%) IT Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) 1st Line Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) Data Centre Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) Data Network Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) NOC Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) Operations Engineer
9 9 (4.04%) Network Operations Engineer
9 9 (4.04%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.52%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.69%) Middleware
3 4 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (0.45%) .NET
4 1 (0.45%) JSON
4 1 (0.45%) SAML
4 1 (0.45%) XMPP
4 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (32.29%) Data Centre
2 29 (13.00%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.04%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.69%) IPTV
4 6 (2.69%) PMI
5 5 (2.24%) PKI
6 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.79%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.35%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.90%) IoT
8 2 (0.90%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.45%) Clustering
9 1 (0.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.45%) SCADA
9 1 (0.45%) Smartcard
9 1 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.28%) Linux
2 13 (5.83%) Windows
3 7 (3.14%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.69%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.79%) Mac OS X
6 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (18.83%) Network Monitoring
3 27 (12.11%) High Availability
3 27 (12.11%) Network Design
4 26 (11.66%) Network Management
5 25 (11.21%) ITIL
6 24 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (9.42%) Change Management
8 21 (9.42%) Load Balancing
8 21 (9.42%) Network Architecture
9 20 (8.97%) Network Segmentation
9 20 (8.97%) Project Delivery
10 19 (8.52%) Migration
11 18 (8.07%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (7.62%) Incident Management
12 17 (7.62%) Incident Response
12 17 (7.62%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 14 (6.28%) Computer Science
13 14 (6.28%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 46 (20.63%) Python
2 17 (7.62%) Bash
3 15 (6.73%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.04%) SQL
5 2 (0.90%) C++
5 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.90%) R
6 1 (0.45%) C#
6 1 (0.45%) Java
6 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (41.26%) Cisco Certification
2 63 (28.25%) CCNA
3 57 (25.56%) CCNP
4 50 (22.42%) Security Cleared
5 44 (19.73%) Degree
6 42 (18.83%) SC Cleared
7 31 (13.90%) DV Cleared
8 20 (8.97%) CCIE
9 14 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.69%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.69%) PMI Certification
11 5 (2.24%) CCSA
11 5 (2.24%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.79%) CCSE
12 4 (1.79%) CISSP
12 4 (1.79%) HNC
12 4 (1.79%) HND
12 4 (1.79%) MCSE
12 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.79%) QA
2 3 (1.35%) PMO
3 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (6.28%) Hyper-V
3 12 (5.38%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.04%) Firmware
4 9 (4.04%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.79%) Docker
6 3 (1.35%) ProxySG
6 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.90%) vSphere
8 1 (0.45%) pfSense
8 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (15.70%) FortiGate
2 34 (15.25%) Ansible
3 13 (5.83%) Nagios
4 11 (4.93%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.69%) WSUS
6 5 (2.24%) Terraform
7 2 (0.90%) Iperf
7 2 (0.90%) Puppet
7 2 (0.90%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.45%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.45%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.45%) Nessus
8 1 (0.45%) SCCM
8 1 (0.45%) vRealize
8 1 (0.45%) WMI
Vendors
1 167 (74.89%) Cisco
2 79 (35.43%) Fortinet
3 66 (29.60%) Juniper
4 60 (26.91%) SolarWinds
5 45 (20.18%) CheckPoint
6 33 (14.80%) Palo Alto
7 32 (14.35%) VMware
8 30 (13.45%) F5
9 25 (11.21%) Meraki
10 19 (8.52%) Microsoft
11 14 (6.28%) Dynatrace
12 13 (5.83%) Infoblox
13 12 (5.38%) Arista
14 11 (4.93%) Aruba
15 9 (4.04%) Ubiquiti
16 8 (3.59%) McAfee
17 6 (2.69%) Bloomberg
17 6 (2.69%) Refinitiv
18 5 (2.24%) Draytek
18 5 (2.24%) ServiceNow