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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 369 448
Rank change year-on-year +15 +79 +42
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 45 59 124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.24% 0.39% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.20% 3.07% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26 44 106
10th Percentile £57,062 £44,534 £44,750
25th Percentile £61,761 £52,188 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,375 £58,060 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.27% +16.12% -28.57%
75th Percentile £85,313 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £53,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +36.79% +4.95% -8.18%

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 2,043 1,922 5,043
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.88% 12.82% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 999 1,174 3,323
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £85,875 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.47%

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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 21 May 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 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 18 (40.00%) AWS
3 11 (24.44%) AWS Direct Connect
3 11 (24.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (20.00%) SaaS
5 3 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 45 (100.00%) BGP
2 44 (97.78%) Firewall
3 27 (60.00%) WAN
4 26 (57.78%) VXLAN
5 25 (55.56%) LAN
5 25 (55.56%) SD-WAN
6 24 (53.33%) Cisco ISE
7 20 (44.44%) MPLS
7 20 (44.44%) Network Security
7 20 (44.44%) VPN
8 19 (42.22%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (42.22%) WLAN
9 15 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (31.11%) NX-OS
11 13 (28.89%) Cisco Firepower
11 13 (28.89%) IPsec
12 12 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (24.44%) DNS
13 11 (24.44%) Wireless
14 9 (20.00%) NetScaler
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Banking
3 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Marketing
3 1 (2.22%) Police
3 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.22%) Retail
3 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 18 (40.00%) Senior
3 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (26.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Firewall Engineer
5 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 9 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (20.00%) Network Operations Engineer
5 9 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Network Security Specialist
7 3 (6.67%) Network Specialist
7 3 (6.67%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Network Security Specialist
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Network Specialist
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) 802.1X
2 3 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) LDAP
3 1 (2.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (46.67%) Data Centre
2 9 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (6.67%) PKI
4 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (31.11%) Network Segmentation
3 14 (31.11%) Zero Trust
4 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 10 (22.22%) Load Balancing
6 9 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (20.00%) Runbook
7 6 (13.33%) Coaching
7 6 (13.33%) DevOps
8 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 5 (11.11%) High Availability
8 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 5 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (8.89%) Collaborative Culture
9 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (8.89%) Network Virtualisation
9 4 (8.89%) Project Delivery
9 4 (8.89%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) Bicep
2 2 (4.44%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
1 4 (8.89%) CCNP
1 4 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) CCIE
2 2 (4.44%) CCNA
2 2 (4.44%) CCSA
2 2 (4.44%) CCSE
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) CASB
3 1 (2.22%) Check_MK
3 1 (2.22%) Nagios
3 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (80.00%) Cisco
2 23 (51.11%) Palo Alto
3 17 (37.78%) SolarWinds
4 16 (35.56%) Fortinet
4 16 (35.56%) Meraki
5 15 (33.33%) CheckPoint
6 11 (24.44%) Dynatrace
7 10 (22.22%) F5
8 9 (20.00%) ServiceNow
9 8 (17.78%) Arista
10 5 (11.11%) Juniper
11 3 (6.67%) Zscaler
12 2 (4.44%) Aruba
13 1 (2.22%) VMware