OSPF Jobs in Wales

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 119 133
Rank change year-on-year +43 +14 -
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 3 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.28% 0.049% 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.39% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £40,686 - -
25th Percentile £45,117 £44,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £48,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £53,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.95% -8.18% -7.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 452 255 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 42.84% 12.51% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 290 146 81
10th Percentile £15,052 £26,250 £24,125
25th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £40,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.06% +6.58% -15.56%
75th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,775 £57,500 £69,196
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in Wales

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Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for OSPF in Wales

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Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in Wales over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OSPF in Wales

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Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Wales region over the 6 months to 14 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
South Wales +32 1 £55,000 +18.28% 4
West Wales - 1 £37,733 -
OSPF
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Iperf
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) LogRhythm
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) Tufin