Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 403 712 691
Rank change year-on-year +309 -21 -244
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 363 397 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.42% 2.52% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 293 298 368
10th Percentile £38,600 £31,938 £33,025
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,218 15,777 16,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.19% 12.54% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,418 10,533 11,407
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

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 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Top 17 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 29 November 2023. 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 +284 337 £52,500 - 109
UK excluding London +244 236 £50,000 - 73
Work from Home +279 165 £52,500 -4.55% 45
London +228 109 £60,500 +5.22% 42
South West +103 68 £50,000 - 17
South East +146 64 £52,500 +1.94% 19
Midlands +157 48 £57,500 -4.17% 16
North of England +101 47 £47,500 +5.56% 19
West Midlands +148 42 £57,500 -16.36% 14
North West +107 31 £45,000 -10.00% 11
East of England +121 21 £73,750 +21.90%
North East +45 13 £85,000 +70.00% 3
Scotland +65 12 £57,500 +7.48% 2
Yorkshire +64 10 £52,500 +16.67% 5
East Midlands +47 6 £60,000 +23.71% 2
Wales +14 2 £39,250 -
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 - 1

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 13 (3.58%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.48%) Confluence
3 5 (1.38%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.83%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Gunicorn
5 1 (0.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) uWSGI
Applications
1 11 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 97 (26.72%) Azure
2 50 (13.77%) AWS
3 25 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.86%) IaaS
5 10 (2.75%) OpenShift
6 8 (2.20%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.65%) GCP
8 6 (1.65%) Nutanix
8 6 (1.65%) Rubrik
9 5 (1.38%) PaaS
10 4 (1.10%) SaaS
11 3 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.55%) GitHub
12 2 (0.55%) Serverless
12 2 (0.55%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 310 (85.40%) BGP
2 256 (70.52%) Firewall
3 195 (53.72%) WAN
4 148 (40.77%) MPLS
5 135 (37.19%) VPN
6 127 (34.99%) Wireless
7 120 (33.06%) LAN
8 111 (30.58%) SD-WAN
9 90 (24.79%) VLAN
10 89 (24.52%) Cisco ASA
11 74 (20.39%) IPsec
12 70 (19.28%) DNS
13 68 (18.73%) TCP/IP
14 63 (17.36%) DHCP
15 55 (15.15%) EIGRP
15 55 (15.15%) Network Security
16 51 (14.05%) Cisco Nexus
17 39 (10.74%) BIG-IP
18 34 (9.37%) Wi-Fi
19 32 (8.82%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.93%) Big Data
1 7 (1.93%) Data Lake
2 3 (0.83%) GIS
3 2 (0.55%) InfluxDB
3 2 (0.55%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.55%) MySQL
3 2 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (1.65%) JIRA
3 1 (0.28%) GitLab
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 112 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.22%) Telecoms
3 35 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.37%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.61%) Finance
6 14 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.03%) Law
8 10 (2.75%) Legal
9 9 (2.48%) Retail
10 8 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.93%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.10%) Police
14 3 (0.83%) Aviation
14 3 (0.83%) Banking
14 3 (0.83%) French Language
14 3 (0.83%) German Language
14 3 (0.83%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 192 (52.89%) Network Engineer
2 54 (14.88%) Architect
2 54 (14.88%) Senior
3 42 (11.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 35 (9.64%) Network Architect
5 22 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 22 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (5.79%) Support Engineer
7 20 (5.51%) Lead
7 20 (5.51%) Network Support
8 16 (4.41%) Cisco Engineer
8 16 (4.41%) Network Support Engineer
9 15 (4.13%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 15 (4.13%) Analyst
9 15 (4.13%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (4.13%) Network Analyst
10 14 (3.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) 3rd Line Support
11 13 (3.58%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.44%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.55%) CSS
3 2 (0.55%) LAMP
3 2 (0.55%) LEMP Stack
3 2 (0.55%) XMPP
4 1 (0.28%) HTML
4 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 135 (37.19%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.48%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.20%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.65%) Reinsurance
7 6 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.38%) IoT
8 5 (1.38%) PKI
8 5 (1.38%) Replication
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.55%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.55%) IVR
11 2 (0.55%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.55%) Smart City
12 1 (0.28%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.28%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.70%) Linux
2 45 (12.40%) Windows
3 28 (7.71%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.86%) Unix
5 13 (3.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (2.75%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.55%) CentOS
11 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.28%) CatOS
11 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.28%) VMS
11 1 (0.28%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (20.39%) ITIL
3 65 (17.91%) Load Balancing
4 53 (14.60%) Network Design
5 45 (12.40%) Network Management
6 38 (10.47%) Network Architecture
7 36 (9.92%) Network Monitoring
8 33 (9.09%) Project Delivery
9 31 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (7.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (6.61%) Configuration Management
12 22 (6.06%) Network Virtualisation
13 21 (5.79%) DevOps
13 21 (5.79%) Task Automation
14 19 (5.23%) Agile
14 19 (5.23%) Collaborative Working
15 18 (4.96%) Change Management
15 18 (4.96%) Customer Service
15 18 (4.96%) Mentoring
16 17 (4.68%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 37 (10.19%) Python
2 31 (8.54%) PowerShell
3 24 (6.61%) Bash
4 6 (1.65%) Perl
5 3 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 186 (51.24%) Cisco Certification
2 133 (36.64%) CCNP
3 94 (25.90%) Security Cleared
4 79 (21.76%) CCNA
5 55 (15.15%) CCIE
6 50 (13.77%) SC Cleared
7 47 (12.95%) Degree
8 29 (7.99%) JNCIA
9 15 (4.13%) DV Cleared
10 14 (3.86%) JNCIP
11 13 (3.58%) JNCIS
12 12 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (3.03%) GIAC
13 11 (3.03%) RHCE
14 10 (2.75%) AWS Certification
14 10 (2.75%) JNCIE
15 9 (2.48%) Network+ Certification
16 8 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (1.93%) CCIE Routing and Switching
17 7 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.44%) SLA
2 9 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 35 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (5.79%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.68%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.41%) Docker
4 16 (4.41%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.20%) vSphere
6 7 (1.93%) Firmware
7 6 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.83%) vCloud
8 3 (0.83%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 75 (20.66%) FortiGate
2 43 (11.85%) Ansible
3 24 (6.61%) Puppet
4 19 (5.23%) Icinga
5 16 (4.41%) Terraform
6 14 (3.86%) Kubernetes
7 12 (3.31%) Grafana
8 10 (2.75%) Cisco CUCM
9 9 (2.48%) Nagios
10 6 (1.65%) Cacti
10 6 (1.65%) Nessus
11 4 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
12 3 (0.83%) Stealthwatch
12 3 (0.83%) WhatsUp Gold
12 3 (0.83%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.28%) Kibana
14 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.28%) RANCID
14 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 256 (70.52%) Cisco
2 110 (30.30%) Juniper
3 101 (27.82%) Fortinet
4 87 (23.97%) CheckPoint
5 82 (22.59%) Meraki
6 65 (17.91%) F5
7 61 (16.80%) Palo Alto
8 55 (15.15%) Aruba
9 54 (14.88%) VMware
10 49 (13.50%) Microsoft
11 38 (10.47%) SolarWinds
12 22 (6.06%) Dell
13 15 (4.13%) Riverbed
14 14 (3.86%) Huawei
15 11 (3.03%) Citrix
15 11 (3.03%) Oracle
15 11 (3.03%) Red Hat
16 10 (2.75%) HP
17 9 (2.48%) Ericsson
18 8 (2.20%) Veeam