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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 398 318
Rank change year-on-year +13 -80 +408
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 44 109 199
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.44% 2.94% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 25 57 177
10th Percentile £49,488 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 1,804 3,712 3,301
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.11% 15.90% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,043 1,607 2,760
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

OSPF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OSPF trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OSPF
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing OSPF

OSPF
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OSPF over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

OSPF salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) AWS
2 17 (38.64%) Azure
3 10 (22.73%) AWS Direct Connect
4 7 (15.91%) GCP
5 6 (13.64%) OCI
6 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (97.73%) BGP
2 39 (88.64%) Firewall
3 31 (70.45%) VPN
4 27 (61.36%) WAN
5 23 (52.27%) SD-WAN
6 16 (36.36%) TCP/IP
6 16 (36.36%) WLAN
7 15 (34.09%) Cisco Firepower
7 15 (34.09%) IPsec
7 15 (34.09%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (31.82%) LAN
8 14 (31.82%) MPLS
8 14 (31.82%) VLAN
9 13 (29.55%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (25.00%) Wireless
11 10 (22.73%) EIGRP
11 10 (22.73%) NX-OS
12 9 (20.45%) Network Security
13 7 (15.91%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (15.91%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JMeter
2 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Electronics
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (61.36%) Network Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Lead
3 9 (20.45%) Senior
4 7 (15.91%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Infoblox Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Network Operations Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Lead Network Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) ICT Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Test Leader
9 1 (2.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Games Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (43.18%) Data Centre
2 10 (22.73%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Load Balancing
2 13 (29.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (22.73%) Change Management
3 10 (22.73%) Cloud Security
3 10 (22.73%) Process Improvement
4 9 (20.45%) Network Design
4 9 (20.45%) Task Automation
5 8 (18.18%) High Availability
6 7 (15.91%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (13.64%) ITIL
7 6 (13.64%) Network Architecture
8 5 (11.36%) Data Centre Operations
8 5 (11.36%) Incident Response
8 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (11.36%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (11.36%) Network Optimisation
8 5 (11.36%) Network Segmentation
8 5 (11.36%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (6.82%) Bash
3 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (20.45%) CCNP
3 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.55%) CCIE
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CCNA
5 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.27%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
1 2 (4.55%) SLA
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Firmware
2 2 (4.55%) pfSense
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Ansible
2 4 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (4.55%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (4.55%) Iperf
4 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (72.73%) Cisco
2 21 (47.73%) SolarWinds
3 15 (34.09%) Palo Alto
4 11 (25.00%) CheckPoint
5 10 (22.73%) Dynatrace
5 10 (22.73%) Infoblox
5 10 (22.73%) Meraki
6 9 (20.45%) Fortinet
7 7 (15.91%) F5
8 6 (13.64%) Aruba
8 6 (13.64%) VMware
9 3 (6.82%) Zscaler
10 2 (4.55%) Dell
11 1 (2.27%) HP
11 1 (2.27%) Juniper
11 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
11 1 (2.27%) Riverbed
11 1 (2.27%) SAP
11 1 (2.27%) SonicWALL