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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 352 320
Rank change year-on-year +16 -32 +283
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 29 88 150
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.19% 0.52% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.09% 3.92% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 18 45 126
10th Percentile £54,229 £45,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £57,218 £53,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £50,300
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +24.25% -12.52%
75th Percentile £86,250 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £50,886
% change year-on-year +18.18% +8.08% -3.07%

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 1,388 2,244 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.18% 13.17% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 908 1,281 2,383
10th Percentile £27,780 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,238 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,875 £86,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

OSPF
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 1 January 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 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (13.79%) SaaS
4 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) OCI
7 1 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 29 (100.00%) BGP
2 26 (89.66%) Firewall
3 22 (75.86%) WAN
4 19 (65.52%) SD-WAN
5 18 (62.07%) VPN
6 13 (44.83%) LAN
7 11 (37.93%) IPsec
8 10 (34.48%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (34.48%) WLAN
9 9 (31.03%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (31.03%) EIGRP
9 9 (31.03%) Network Security
10 8 (27.59%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (27.59%) TCP/IP
10 8 (27.59%) Wireshark
11 7 (24.14%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (24.14%) MPLS
11 7 (24.14%) VLAN
11 7 (24.14%) VXLAN
11 7 (24.14%) Wireless
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Police
5 1 (3.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) Network Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Senior
3 9 (31.03%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (27.59%) Cisco Engineer
4 8 (27.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Firewall Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (6.90%) ICT Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Network Engineering Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Network Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Cisco Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Cisco Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.90%) Driving Licence
4 2 (6.90%) e-Learning
4 2 (6.90%) PKI
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (27.59%) Load Balancing
3 7 (24.14%) High Availability
4 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
4 6 (20.69%) ITIL
5 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
5 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Network Optimisation
5 5 (17.24%) Process Improvement
5 5 (17.24%) Zero Trust
6 4 (13.79%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (13.79%) Line Management
6 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.79%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (13.79%) Runbook
7 3 (10.34%) Change Control
7 3 (10.34%) DevOps
7 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) CCNP
1 12 (41.38%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) CCIE
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.34%) Firmware
3 2 (6.90%) pfSense
4 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Ansible
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (89.66%) Cisco
2 16 (55.17%) Palo Alto
3 15 (51.72%) SolarWinds
4 9 (31.03%) Fortinet
5 7 (24.14%) CheckPoint
5 7 (24.14%) F5
5 7 (24.14%) Meraki
6 5 (17.24%) Aruba
6 5 (17.24%) VMware
7 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
7 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
8 3 (10.34%) Dell
8 3 (10.34%) Zscaler
9 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
10 1 (3.45%) Arista
10 1 (3.45%) Sophos