OSPF Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for OSPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OSPF over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 457 514 699
Rank change year-on-year +57 +185 -222
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 128 149 146
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.35% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.43% 3.13% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 110 139 111
10th Percentile £44,750 £43,100 £41,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £50,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £63,438 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% -4.35% +4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

OSPF is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,268 4,755 7,428
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.60% 11.21% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,409 3,529 4,933
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,100
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.70% +8.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,500 £73,675
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,970 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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

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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 4 May 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 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) Apache
2 1 (0.78%) Gunicorn
2 1 (0.78%) nginx
2 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.78%) uWSGI
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (15.63%) Azure
2 18 (14.06%) AWS
3 6 (4.69%) IaaS
4 5 (3.91%) AWS Direct Connect
4 5 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.34%) PaaS
5 3 (2.34%) SaaS
6 2 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 115 (89.84%) BGP
2 90 (70.31%) MPLS
3 85 (66.41%) WAN
4 76 (59.38%) LAN
5 64 (50.00%) SD-WAN
6 57 (44.53%) Firewall
7 49 (38.28%) VPN
8 43 (33.59%) TCP/IP
9 35 (27.34%) WLAN
10 34 (26.56%) VLAN
11 33 (25.78%) Wireless
12 20 (15.63%) Network Security
13 19 (14.84%) Ethernet
13 19 (14.84%) IPsec
14 17 (13.28%) DNS
15 11 (8.59%) EIGRP
15 11 (8.59%) Intrusion Detection
15 11 (8.59%) VXLAN
15 11 (8.59%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (7.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
General
1 26 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.72%) Law
3 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.25%) Finance
5 7 (5.47%) Legal
5 7 (5.47%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.13%) Publishing
7 3 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Billing
8 2 (1.56%) Front Office
8 2 (1.56%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 63 (49.22%) Network Engineer
2 33 (25.78%) Analyst
2 33 (25.78%) Network Analyst
3 31 (24.22%) Network Operations Analyst
3 31 (24.22%) Operations Analyst
4 21 (16.41%) Senior
5 20 (15.63%) Senior Network Engineer
6 16 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Core Network Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Senior Core Network Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Lead
9 6 (4.69%) Network Security Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Professional Services Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Security Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.47%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.91%) XMPP
3 3 (2.34%) CSS
4 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.69%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.91%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.91%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.91%) PKI
5 4 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.34%) Smart City
7 2 (1.56%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.56%) Clustering
7 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.56%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.78%) CMDB
8 1 (0.78%) Derivative
8 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.47%) Linux
2 6 (4.69%) Apple iOS
2 6 (4.69%) Windows
3 5 (3.91%) Android
4 3 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.56%) VMS
5 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.31%) Mentoring
2 18 (14.06%) Network Design
3 17 (13.28%) Customer Service
3 17 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (10.94%) ITIL
6 13 (10.16%) Network Management
7 11 (8.59%) Information Security
8 9 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (7.03%) Network Architecture
8 9 (7.03%) Roadmaps
8 9 (7.03%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (6.25%) Coaching
9 8 (6.25%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 8 (6.25%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (5.47%) Analytics
10 7 (5.47%) Computer Science
10 7 (5.47%) Configuration Management
11 6 (4.69%) Business Continuity
11 6 (4.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.47%) PowerShell
1 7 (5.47%) Python
2 2 (1.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 66 (51.56%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (42.97%) CCNP
3 46 (35.94%) CCNA
4 40 (31.25%) CCIE
5 38 (29.69%) CCDP
6 11 (8.59%) Degree
7 9 (7.03%) JNCIP
8 8 (6.25%) Security Cleared
9 5 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.91%) JNCIE
10 3 (2.34%) MCT
11 2 (1.56%) CCIP
11 2 (1.56%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.78%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 1 (0.78%) CCNP Voice
12 1 (0.78%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (6.25%) SLA
3 3 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.13%) vCloud
2 4 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.56%) Docker
3 2 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (7.81%) Ansible
2 9 (7.03%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.13%) Puppet
3 4 (3.13%) SolarWinds Orion
3 4 (3.13%) WSUS
4 2 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.56%) Grafana
4 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.56%) Nessus
4 2 (1.56%) Terraform
5 1 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (50.00%) Cisco
2 25 (19.53%) Juniper
3 23 (17.97%) Palo Alto
4 17 (13.28%) SolarWinds
5 16 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 14 (10.94%) CheckPoint
6 14 (10.94%) Meraki
7 11 (8.59%) Aruba
8 10 (7.81%) VMware
9 8 (6.25%) F5
9 8 (6.25%) Microsoft
10 7 (5.47%) Extreme Networks
10 7 (5.47%) HP
11 6 (4.69%) Infoblox
11 6 (4.69%) Nokia
12 4 (3.13%) Dell
13 2 (1.56%) Aerohive Networks
13 2 (1.56%) Huawei
13 2 (1.56%) NETGEAR
13 2 (1.56%) Remedy