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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 347 432
Rank change year-on-year -27 +85 +81
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 28 52 124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.40% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 3.23% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8 42 110
10th Percentile £57,087 £43,799 £44,750
25th Percentile £66,781 £48,672 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,375 £56,121 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.65% +12.24% -31.03%
75th Percentile £101,250 £85,000 £62,063
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +32.08% +6.00% -9.09%

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 1,892 1,612 4,436
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.13% 12.53% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 961 1,194 3,473
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -7.77%

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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 5 April 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 19 (67.86%) Azure
2 16 (57.14%) AWS
3 11 (39.29%) AWS Direct Connect
4 9 (32.14%) SaaS
4 9 (32.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (100.00%) BGP
2 27 (96.43%) Firewall
3 21 (75.00%) SD-WAN
4 20 (71.43%) WAN
5 19 (67.86%) LAN
6 18 (64.29%) Cisco ISE
6 18 (64.29%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (60.71%) Cisco ASA
8 16 (57.14%) MPLS
8 16 (57.14%) VPN
9 15 (53.57%) VXLAN
9 15 (53.57%) WLAN
10 13 (46.43%) NX-OS
11 12 (42.86%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (42.86%) IPsec
12 11 (39.29%) Network Security
13 9 (32.14%) NetScaler
14 7 (25.00%) Wireless
15 6 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
15 6 (21.43%) VLAN
General
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Police
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (82.14%) Network Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) Cisco Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) Firewall Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) Senior
4 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 9 (32.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (32.14%) Network Operations Engineer
4 9 (32.14%) Operations Engineer
5 7 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (17.86%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Network Engineering Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Network Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) 802.1X
1 2 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Data Centre
2 9 (32.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (7.14%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (39.29%) Cloud Security
2 11 (39.29%) Network Segmentation
2 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (35.71%) Zero Trust
4 9 (32.14%) Kalman Filter
4 9 (32.14%) Runbook
5 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 4 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.71%) Line Management
6 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.71%) Migration
6 3 (10.71%) Threat Management
7 2 (7.14%) DDoS Mitigation
7 2 (7.14%) Fintech
7 2 (7.14%) High Availability
7 2 (7.14%) Network Architecture
7 2 (7.14%) Project Management
7 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) Bash
2 2 (7.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) CCNP
1 7 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.71%) CCIE
4 2 (7.14%) CCNA
4 2 (7.14%) CCSA
4 2 (7.14%) CCSE
4 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) Cisco
2 16 (57.14%) Fortinet
3 15 (53.57%) SolarWinds
4 14 (50.00%) CheckPoint
5 13 (46.43%) Meraki
6 11 (39.29%) Dynatrace
7 10 (35.71%) Palo Alto
8 9 (32.14%) ServiceNow
9 4 (14.29%) F5
10 1 (3.57%) Arista
10 1 (3.57%) Sophos
10 1 (3.57%) VMware