OSPF Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 391 732
Rank change year-on-year -37 +341 -234
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 105 195 180
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.59% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.51% 5.02% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 82 176 147
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £46,813 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year - -7.54% +8.15%

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 4,190 3,882 9,409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.00% 11.83% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,346 3,097 5,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,456
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.85% +2.65%
75th Percentile £67,968 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

OSPF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OSPF trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing OSPF over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

OSPF salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.95%) AWS
2 20 (19.05%) Azure
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.81%) Cloudflare
4 4 (3.81%) Mimecast
5 3 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.86%) SaaS
6 2 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.95%) IaaS
7 1 (0.95%) PaaS
7 1 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 91 (86.67%) BGP
2 72 (68.57%) Firewall
3 48 (45.71%) WAN
4 46 (43.81%) VPN
5 43 (40.95%) LAN
6 38 (36.19%) MPLS
7 33 (31.43%) TCP/IP
8 32 (30.48%) Network Security
9 30 (28.57%) SD-WAN
10 26 (24.76%) VLAN
11 25 (23.81%) IPsec
12 22 (20.95%) Wireless
13 19 (18.10%) EIGRP
14 16 (15.24%) DNS
15 13 (12.38%) WLAN
16 12 (11.43%) HSRP
17 11 (10.48%) RIP
18 10 (9.52%) Intrusion Detection
19 9 (8.57%) Cisco IOS
19 9 (8.57%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.81%) MariaDB
1 4 (3.81%) MySQL
1 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.95%) GitLab
1 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (16.19%) Finance
2 16 (15.24%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.57%) Law
4 7 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.71%) Legal
6 3 (2.86%) Publishing
6 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.95%) Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Front Office
8 1 (0.95%) Military
8 1 (0.95%) Police
Job Titles
1 63 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 28 (26.67%) Senior
3 26 (24.76%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (13.33%) Analyst
4 14 (13.33%) Network Analyst
5 13 (12.38%) Network Operations Analyst
5 13 (12.38%) Operations Analyst
6 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Network Security Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Security Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Cisco Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Network Security Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Security Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Architect
10 5 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.48%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.86%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Data Centre
2 11 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.81%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.81%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.86%) PKI
7 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.95%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.95%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.52%) Linux
2 8 (7.62%) Windows
3 6 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.81%) Android
4 4 (3.81%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.81%) Debian
4 4 (3.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (11.43%) Mentoring
2 12 (11.43%) Network Design
2 12 (11.43%) Network Management
3 11 (10.48%) ITIL
3 11 (10.48%) Network Architecture
4 10 (9.52%) Analytics
5 8 (7.62%) Customer Service
5 8 (7.62%) Roadmaps
6 7 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (6.67%) Information Security
6 7 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (5.71%) Business Continuity
7 6 (5.71%) Configuration Management
7 6 (5.71%) DDoS Mitigation
7 6 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (5.71%) Project Management
8 5 (4.76%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 5 (4.76%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.67%) Python
2 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.90%) Bash
Qualifications
1 52 (49.52%) Cisco Certification
2 39 (37.14%) CCNP
3 25 (23.81%) CCNA
4 23 (21.90%) CCIE
5 19 (18.10%) Security Cleared
6 8 (7.62%) CCDP
7 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
8 6 (5.71%) CISSP
9 5 (4.76%) Degree
10 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
10 4 (3.81%) JNCIE
11 3 (2.86%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.95%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.95%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.71%) NIST
3 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.81%) Docker
2 4 (3.81%) Firmware
2 4 (3.81%) NFS
2 4 (3.81%) pfSense
2 4 (3.81%) vCloud
2 4 (3.81%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (3.81%) vSphere
3 3 (2.86%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (12.38%) Ansible
2 5 (4.76%) Terraform
3 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.81%) Puppet
3 4 (3.81%) SCCM
4 3 (2.86%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.95%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (64.76%) Cisco
2 24 (22.86%) Juniper
3 22 (20.95%) Palo Alto
4 19 (18.10%) Fortinet
5 16 (15.24%) Aruba
5 16 (15.24%) CheckPoint
6 13 (12.38%) HP
7 11 (10.48%) SolarWinds
8 10 (9.52%) Meraki
8 10 (9.52%) Microsoft
9 9 (8.57%) VMware
10 8 (7.62%) F5
11 6 (5.71%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (4.76%) Citrix
13 4 (3.81%) Dell
13 4 (3.81%) NetApp
13 4 (3.81%) QNAP
13 4 (3.81%) Synology
14 3 (2.86%) Mellanox
14 3 (2.86%) NVIDIA