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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 365 440
Rank change year-on-year -3 +75 +59
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 38 54 126
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.21% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.90% 3.25% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 17 40 108
10th Percentile £46,600 £43,799 £44,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £51,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £56,121 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.99% +12.24% -28.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £92,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £53,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year +32.08% +5.47% -8.64%

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 2,004 1,661 5,089
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.87% 11.49% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 971 1,201 3,372
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,068 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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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 10 May 2026.

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 26 (68.42%) Azure
2 20 (52.63%) AWS
3 11 (28.95%) AWS Direct Connect
3 11 (28.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (23.68%) SaaS
5 3 (7.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.26%) GCP
6 2 (5.26%) OCI
6 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.63%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 38 (100.00%) BGP
2 37 (97.37%) Firewall
3 26 (68.42%) WAN
4 25 (65.79%) SD-WAN
5 24 (63.16%) LAN
6 23 (60.53%) Cisco ISE
7 21 (55.26%) VPN
8 20 (52.63%) MPLS
9 19 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (47.37%) Network Security
10 18 (47.37%) VXLAN
10 18 (47.37%) WLAN
11 17 (44.74%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (36.84%) NX-OS
13 13 (34.21%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (34.21%) IPsec
14 10 (26.32%) Wireless
15 9 (23.68%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (23.68%) NetScaler
16 8 (21.05%) VLAN
General
1 7 (18.42%) Finance
2 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Banking
3 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Marketing
3 1 (2.63%) Police
3 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Retail
3 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (78.95%) Network Engineer
2 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (31.58%) Senior
3 10 (26.32%) Cisco Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) Firewall Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Network Operations Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Operations Engineer
5 7 (18.42%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Network Security Specialist
8 2 (5.26%) Network Specialist
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Security Specialist
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) 802.1X
2 3 (7.89%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.63%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (36.84%) Data Centre
2 9 (23.68%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (7.89%) PKI
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.26%) e-Learning
5 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (34.21%) Network Segmentation
2 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (34.21%) Zero Trust
3 12 (31.58%) Cloud Security
4 9 (23.68%) Kalman Filter
4 9 (23.68%) Runbook
5 5 (13.16%) High Availability
5 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.53%) Load Balancing
6 4 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.53%) Threat Management
7 3 (7.89%) DDoS Mitigation
7 3 (7.89%) Fintech
7 3 (7.89%) Line Management
7 3 (7.89%) Migration
7 3 (7.89%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) Python
2 3 (7.89%) Bash
2 3 (7.89%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) CCNP
1 6 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) CCIE
3 2 (5.26%) CCNA
3 2 (5.26%) CCSA
3 2 (5.26%) CCSE
3 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) FortiGate
2 5 (13.16%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) CASB
4 1 (2.63%) Check_MK
4 1 (2.63%) Nagios
4 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (92.11%) Cisco
2 18 (47.37%) Palo Alto
3 17 (44.74%) Fortinet
3 17 (44.74%) SolarWinds
4 16 (42.11%) Meraki
5 15 (39.47%) CheckPoint
6 11 (28.95%) Dynatrace
7 9 (23.68%) ServiceNow
8 5 (13.16%) F5
9 3 (7.89%) Arista
9 3 (7.89%) Juniper
10 2 (5.26%) Aruba
10 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.63%) VMware