OSPF Jobs in the South East

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 313 394
Rank change year-on-year +7 +81 -52
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 92 79 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 0.59% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.25% 3.27% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 54 59 68
10th Percentile £43,500 £42,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £46,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.44% -15.45% -
75th Percentile £64,688 £56,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £124,625 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,827 2,418 3,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.35% 18.04% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,891 1,428 1,872
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -4.74% +3.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,225
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the South East.

Salary trend for OSPF in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -19 34 £53,000 +17.78% 5
Hampshire -22 33 £52,250 -4.13% 5
Berkshire +13 25 £50,000 +11.11% 5
Surrey +1 17 £137,500 +175.00% 7
Oxfordshire -6 9 £65,000 +18.18%
West Sussex +28 6 £52,500 -
East Sussex - 2 £50,000 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.48%) AWS
2 4 (4.35%) Azure
3 2 (2.17%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (2.17%) Cloudflare
3 2 (2.17%) Mimecast
3 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.09%) GCP
4 1 (1.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (85.87%) BGP
2 43 (46.74%) Firewall
3 39 (42.39%) EIGRP
4 32 (34.78%) Cisco ASA
5 28 (30.43%) DMVPN
6 26 (28.26%) IPsec
6 26 (28.26%) VPN
7 21 (22.83%) Cisco Firepower
8 19 (20.65%) WAN
9 17 (18.48%) LAN
9 17 (18.48%) VLAN
10 15 (16.30%) DNS
11 14 (15.22%) Cisco ISE
11 14 (15.22%) HSRP
11 14 (15.22%) Network Security
12 13 (14.13%) Wireless
13 12 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (13.04%) SSL
14 11 (11.96%) NGFW
14 11 (11.96%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.17%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.17%) MySQL
2 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.09%) JIRA
General
1 15 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.43%) Legal
3 2 (2.17%) Electronics
3 2 (2.17%) Finance
3 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.09%) Billing
4 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (40.22%) Network Engineer
2 16 (17.39%) Network Specialist
3 10 (10.87%) 3rd Line Support
3 10 (10.87%) Network Support
4 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (9.78%) Senior
4 9 (9.78%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Architect
5 8 (8.70%) Lead
5 8 (8.70%) Network Architect
6 7 (7.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Network Team Leader
6 7 (7.61%) Team Leader
7 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Professional Services Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Firewall Specialist
8 4 (4.35%) Network Support Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.91%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (8.70%) Virtual Team
4 7 (7.61%) Public Cloud
5 6 (6.52%) PKI
6 5 (5.43%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.43%) Data Structures
6 5 (5.43%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.17%) Molecular Biology
8 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Android
1 7 (7.61%) Apple iOS
2 5 (5.43%) Linux
2 5 (5.43%) Windows
3 3 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.17%) Debian
4 2 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.09%) VMS
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.78%) Network Design
2 19 (20.65%) Mentoring
3 12 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (11.96%) Information Security
5 10 (10.87%) Agile
5 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (10.87%) Network Monitoring
6 9 (9.78%) Network Management
6 9 (9.78%) Prototyping
7 8 (8.70%) High Availability
8 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (7.61%) Roadmaps
9 6 (6.52%) Computer Science
9 6 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (6.52%) Fintech
9 6 (6.52%) Network Architecture
10 5 (5.43%) Business Analysis
10 5 (5.43%) Data Modelling
10 5 (5.43%) Penetration Testing
10 5 (5.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.43%) Python
2 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (46.74%) Security Cleared
2 29 (31.52%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (25.00%) CCNP
4 10 (10.87%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.61%) CCIE
6 6 (6.52%) Degree
6 6 (6.52%) JNCIS
7 5 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.43%) JNCIE
8 3 (3.26%) CCNA
9 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.09%) CCSA
10 1 (1.09%) CCSE
10 1 (1.09%) CISSP
10 1 (1.09%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.43%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Firmware
2 3 (3.26%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.17%) NFS
3 2 (2.17%) pfSense
3 2 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.17%) vSphere
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (34.78%) FortiGate
2 7 (7.61%) Terraform
3 5 (5.43%) Ansible
4 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.17%) SCCM
6 1 (1.09%) Grafana
6 1 (1.09%) Nessus
6 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (61.96%) Cisco
2 55 (59.78%) Juniper
3 32 (34.78%) Fortinet
4 18 (19.57%) McAfee
5 12 (13.04%) F5
5 12 (13.04%) Palo Alto
6 11 (11.96%) Extreme Networks
7 9 (9.78%) Aruba
8 6 (6.52%) Infoblox
8 6 (6.52%) Meraki
9 4 (4.35%) CheckPoint
9 4 (4.35%) Citrix
10 3 (3.26%) SolarWinds
10 3 (3.26%) VMware
11 2 (2.17%) Microsoft
11 2 (2.17%) NetApp
11 2 (2.17%) QNAP
11 2 (2.17%) Synology
11 2 (2.17%) Ubiquiti
12 1 (1.09%) Arista