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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 354 312
Rank change year-on-year +20 -42 +302
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 28 92 148
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 0.53% 0.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.07% 4.05% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 18 49 126
10th Percentile £54,229 £45,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £57,218 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £50,886
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +22.82% -9.94%
75th Percentile £86,250 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +6.80% -1.90%

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 1,354 2,271 2,790
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.84% 13.14% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,316 2,360
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,147 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -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 25 December 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 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) SaaS
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) OCI
6 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (100.00%) BGP
2 25 (89.29%) Firewall
3 21 (75.00%) WAN
4 18 (64.29%) SD-WAN
5 17 (60.71%) VPN
6 12 (42.86%) LAN
7 10 (35.71%) IPsec
8 9 (32.14%) EIGRP
8 9 (32.14%) Network Security
8 9 (32.14%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (32.14%) WLAN
9 8 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (28.57%) TCP/IP
9 8 (28.57%) Wireshark
10 7 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (25.00%) VLAN
10 7 (25.00%) Wireless
11 6 (21.43%) BIG-IP
11 6 (21.43%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (21.43%) MPLS
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Police
5 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) Senior
3 9 (32.14%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (7.14%) ICT Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Network Engineering Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Network Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Cisco Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 2 (7.14%) e-Learning
3 2 (7.14%) PKI
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Load Balancing
1 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.00%) High Availability
3 6 (21.43%) ITIL
4 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
4 5 (17.86%) Incident Response
4 5 (17.86%) Network Optimisation
4 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Line Management
5 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.29%) Zero Trust
6 3 (10.71%) Change Control
6 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (10.71%) Low Latency
6 3 (10.71%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (10.71%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) CCNP
1 12 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) CCIE
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Firmware
3 2 (7.14%) pfSense
4 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Ansible
2 6 (21.43%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (89.29%) Cisco
2 16 (57.14%) Palo Alto
3 14 (50.00%) SolarWinds
4 8 (28.57%) Fortinet
5 7 (25.00%) F5
6 6 (21.43%) CheckPoint
6 6 (21.43%) Meraki
7 5 (17.86%) Aruba
7 5 (17.86%) VMware
8 3 (10.71%) Dell
8 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
8 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
8 3 (10.71%) Zscaler
9 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
10 1 (3.57%) Arista
10 1 (3.57%) Sophos