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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 345 337
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 +303
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 30 111 171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.20% 0.56% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% 4.60% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 21 57 148
10th Percentile £52,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £62,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £101,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +4.76%

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 1,407 2,413 2,985
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.20% 12.28% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 981 1,385 2,506
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £37,750 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.44% +7.00% -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 20 November 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 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
3 5 (16.67%) OCI
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 30 (100.00%) BGP
2 26 (86.67%) Firewall
3 19 (63.33%) WAN
4 18 (60.00%) VPN
5 16 (53.33%) SD-WAN
6 12 (40.00%) EIGRP
6 12 (40.00%) TCP/IP
7 11 (36.67%) VLAN
8 10 (33.33%) LAN
9 9 (30.00%) Network Security
10 8 (26.67%) Wireless
10 8 (26.67%) Wireshark
11 6 (20.00%) IPsec
11 6 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (16.67%) BIG-IP
12 5 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 5 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 5 (16.67%) WLAN
13 4 (13.33%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Police
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Network Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Senior
3 7 (23.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) ICT Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Lead Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Network Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Network Manager
6 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Network Engineering Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Design Authority
6 1 (3.33%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.67%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.33%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) High Availability
3 7 (23.33%) ITIL
4 6 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 5 (16.67%) Network Optimisation
5 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.33%) Network Design
6 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.00%) Business Continuity
7 3 (10.00%) Change Control
7 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (10.00%) Migration
7 3 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) CCNP
1 13 (43.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) CCIE
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Firmware
1 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.67%) pfSense
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Ansible
2 6 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Cisco
2 15 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 10 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 6 (20.00%) Aruba
4 6 (20.00%) F5
4 6 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 5 (16.67%) VMware
6 4 (13.33%) Meraki
6 4 (13.33%) Zscaler
7 3 (10.00%) Dell
8 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
8 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
9 1 (3.33%) HP
9 1 (3.33%) Juniper
9 1 (3.33%) SAP
9 1 (3.33%) SonicWALL
9 1 (3.33%) Sophos