Hybrid/Remote OSPF Job Trends

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring OSPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 366 312
Rank change year-on-year -11 -54 +346
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 37 110 197
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.23% 0.54% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.17% 4.56% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25 57 172
10th Percentile £53,274 £45,000 £40,050
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £101,500 £88,625
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,708 2,412 3,147
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.47% 11.94% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 984 1,415 2,623
10th Percentile £25,825 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £74,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.62% +5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OSPF and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

OSPF job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OSPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OSPF

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OSPF over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

OSPF salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 14 (37.84%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) GCP
4 6 (16.22%) OCI
5 5 (13.51%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 37 (100.00%) BGP
2 32 (86.49%) Firewall
3 25 (67.57%) VPN
4 23 (62.16%) WAN
5 19 (51.35%) SD-WAN
6 14 (37.84%) TCP/IP
7 11 (29.73%) EIGRP
7 11 (29.73%) LAN
7 11 (29.73%) VLAN
8 10 (27.03%) IPsec
8 10 (27.03%) Network Security
9 9 (24.32%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (24.32%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (24.32%) Wireless
9 9 (24.32%) WLAN
10 8 (21.62%) MPLS
10 8 (21.62%) Wireshark
11 7 (18.92%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (16.22%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (13.51%) BIG-IP
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Electronics
5 1 (2.70%) Games
5 1 (2.70%) Law
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (70.27%) Network Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Lead Network Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Cisco Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Cisco Network Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) ICT Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Infoblox Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Network Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Network Operations Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Games Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Load Balancing
2 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (21.62%) High Availability
4 8 (21.62%) Task Automation
5 7 (18.92%) ITIL
5 7 (18.92%) Process Improvement
5 7 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (16.22%) Network Design
7 5 (13.51%) Change Management
7 5 (13.51%) Incident Response
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.51%) Network Optimisation
8 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security
8 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
9 3 (8.11%) Change Control
9 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
9 3 (8.11%) DevOps
9 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (29.73%) CCNP
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) CCIE
5 2 (5.41%) Degree
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Firmware
2 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.41%) pfSense
4 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Ansible
2 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (75.68%) Cisco
2 15 (40.54%) Palo Alto
3 14 (37.84%) SolarWinds
4 7 (18.92%) F5
4 7 (18.92%) Fortinet
4 7 (18.92%) Meraki
5 6 (16.22%) Aruba
5 6 (16.22%) CheckPoint
6 5 (13.51%) VMware
7 4 (10.81%) Dynatrace
7 4 (10.81%) Infoblox
7 4 (10.81%) Zscaler
8 3 (8.11%) Dell
9 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.70%) HP
10 1 (2.70%) Juniper
10 1 (2.70%) Riverbed
10 1 (2.70%) SAP
10 1 (2.70%) SonicWALL