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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 358 324
Rank change year-on-year +6 -34 +306
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 25 102 156
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.54% 0.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.87% 4.28% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16 52 134
10th Percentile £53,592 £45,000 £40,725
25th Percentile £60,313 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £64,688
90th Percentile £118,750 £84,875 £86,750
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 1,340 2,381 2,908
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.76% 12.66% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 924 1,376 2,476
10th Percentile £27,040 £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 £84,982 £87,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.25% +6.00% -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 10 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 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (8.00%) OCI
5 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (100.00%) BGP
2 21 (84.00%) Firewall
3 19 (76.00%) WAN
4 17 (68.00%) SD-WAN
5 14 (56.00%) VPN
6 11 (44.00%) EIGRP
6 11 (44.00%) LAN
7 8 (32.00%) Wireshark
8 7 (28.00%) IPsec
8 7 (28.00%) TCP/IP
8 7 (28.00%) VLAN
8 7 (28.00%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (28.00%) Wireless
9 6 (24.00%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (24.00%) Network Security
9 6 (24.00%) WLAN
10 5 (20.00%) BIG-IP
10 5 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 5 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Network Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (8.00%) ICT Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Network Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Network Engineering Manager
7 1 (4.00%) Firewall Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Cisco Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.00%) e-Learning
3 2 (8.00%) PKI
4 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Load Balancing
2 7 (28.00%) High Availability
3 6 (24.00%) ITIL
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (20.00%) Network Optimisation
4 5 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity
6 3 (12.00%) Change Control
6 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.00%) Line Management
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) SIEM
6 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) CCNP
1 13 (52.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) CCIE
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Firmware
1 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) pfSense
3 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Ansible
2 7 (28.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 22 (88.00%) Cisco
2 15 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 10 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 6 (24.00%) Aruba
4 6 (24.00%) F5
4 6 (24.00%) Fortinet
5 5 (20.00%) Meraki
6 4 (16.00%) VMware
6 4 (16.00%) Zscaler
7 3 (12.00%) CheckPoint
7 3 (12.00%) Dell
8 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
9 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
9 1 (4.00%) Juniper
9 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
9 1 (4.00%) Sophos