OSPF Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring OSPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OSPF over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 441 436
Rank change year-on-year +40 -5 +294
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 56 135 180
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.40% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.01% 2.67% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 39 109 168
10th Percentile £43,539 £45,400 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £78,500
90th Percentile - £80,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -5.97%

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 5,547 5,056 4,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 14.82% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,983 3,127 3,239
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £54,213 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,258 £80,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% -6.86% -2.86%

OSPF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OSPF trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OSPF
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OSPF.

OSPF salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

OSPF
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OSPF over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

OSPF salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 24 (42.86%) AWS
1 24 (42.86%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) AWS Direct Connect
3 7 (12.50%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) OCI
5 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.57%) SaaS
5 2 (3.57%) Serverless
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (91.07%) BGP
2 41 (73.21%) Firewall
3 32 (57.14%) VPN
4 30 (53.57%) WAN
5 23 (41.07%) MPLS
6 21 (37.50%) IPsec
7 19 (33.93%) SD-WAN
8 18 (32.14%) Cisco ASA
8 18 (32.14%) LAN
8 18 (32.14%) WLAN
9 16 (28.57%) TCP/IP
9 16 (28.57%) Wireless
10 15 (26.79%) Cisco Firepower
10 15 (26.79%) VLAN
10 15 (26.79%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (21.43%) EIGRP
12 11 (19.64%) Cisco ISE
13 10 (17.86%) NX-OS
14 9 (16.07%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (16.07%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JMeter
1 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (12.50%) Finance
2 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Police
4 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Local Government
6 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.57%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Electronics
7 1 (1.79%) Games
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 15 (26.79%) Senior
3 12 (21.43%) Lead
4 10 (17.86%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Infoblox Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Network Operations Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Cisco Network Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.57%) JSON
2 2 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (41.07%) Data Centre
2 10 (17.86%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.36%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) PKI
4 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Windows
2 2 (3.57%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (23.21%) Network Design
4 12 (21.43%) Change Management
4 12 (21.43%) Cloud Security
5 9 (16.07%) Load Balancing
5 9 (16.07%) Task Automation
6 7 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.71%) Kalman Filter
7 6 (10.71%) Network Architecture
7 6 (10.71%) Network Management
7 6 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (8.93%) Data Centre Operations
8 5 (8.93%) Network Segmentation
8 5 (8.93%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (8.93%) Product Management
8 5 (8.93%) Product Requirements
8 5 (8.93%) Runbook
8 5 (8.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) Python
2 3 (5.36%) C++
3 2 (3.57%) Bash
3 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) CCNP
4 3 (5.36%) CCIE
4 3 (5.36%) CCNA
4 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Firmware
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) Ansible
2 4 (7.14%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.57%) Iperf
3 2 (3.57%) Puppet
3 2 (3.57%) Terraform
4 1 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (69.64%) Cisco
2 21 (37.50%) SolarWinds
3 18 (32.14%) CheckPoint
4 13 (23.21%) Fortinet
5 12 (21.43%) Palo Alto
6 10 (17.86%) Dynatrace
6 10 (17.86%) Infoblox
7 9 (16.07%) Juniper
7 9 (16.07%) Meraki
8 6 (10.71%) F5
9 4 (7.14%) Aruba
9 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
10 3 (5.36%) McAfee
10 3 (5.36%) Riverbed
10 3 (5.36%) VMware
11 2 (3.57%) Arista
12 1 (1.79%) Dell
12 1 (1.79%) HP
12 1 (1.79%) LogRhythm
12 1 (1.79%) Zscaler