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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 361 311
Rank change year-on-year +13 -50 +316
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 24 106 165
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.54% 0.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.78% 4.37% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 16 53 143
10th Percentile £53,592 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,313 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £63,125
90th Percentile £118,750 £85,000 £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 1,347 2,424 2,938
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.88% 12.45% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 935 1,397 2,507
10th Percentile £26,687 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,235 £86,086
UK median annual salary £37,500 £53,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.31% +6.10% -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 30 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 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) BGP
2 20 (83.33%) Firewall
3 18 (75.00%) WAN
4 16 (66.67%) SD-WAN
5 13 (54.17%) VPN
6 11 (45.83%) EIGRP
7 10 (41.67%) LAN
8 8 (33.33%) Wireshark
9 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
9 7 (29.17%) VLAN
9 7 (29.17%) Wireless
10 6 (25.00%) IPsec
10 6 (25.00%) Network Security
10 6 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (20.83%) BIG-IP
11 5 (20.83%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (20.83%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (20.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 5 (20.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (20.83%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Senior
3 6 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Network Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (8.33%) ICT Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Network Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Network Engineering Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Firewall Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Cisco Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Switch Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Technical Design Authority
7 1 (4.17%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) e-Learning
3 2 (8.33%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 7 (29.17%) High Availability
3 6 (25.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
4 5 (20.83%) Network Optimisation
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Process Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 3 (12.50%) Change Control
6 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.50%) Line Management
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) CCNP
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) CCIE
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Firmware
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) pfSense
3 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Ansible
2 7 (29.17%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Cisco
2 15 (62.50%) Palo Alto
3 9 (37.50%) SolarWinds
4 6 (25.00%) Aruba
4 6 (25.00%) F5
5 5 (20.83%) Fortinet
6 4 (16.67%) Meraki
6 4 (16.67%) VMware
6 4 (16.67%) Zscaler
7 3 (12.50%) Dell
8 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
8 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
9 1 (4.17%) Juniper
9 1 (4.17%) Sophos