OSPF Jobs in the UK excluding London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 548 515 590
Rank change year-on-year -33 +75 -147
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 240 208 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.39% 1.95% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 167 159 177
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,353 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £49,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.54% +8.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,052 10,657 11,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.72% 19.15% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,121 4,564 6,554
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the UK excluding London 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
South East +7 92 £52,750 +13.44% 20
North of England +48 77 £42,500 -9.57% 16
North West +40 64 £40,000 -42.86% 11
Midlands -23 48 £48,500 -15.65% 2
West Midlands +9 47 £48,500 -11.82% 2
Yorkshire +52 16 £47,500 +5.56% 5
South West -35 16 £48,500 -3.00% 5
Scotland -61 8 £65,000 - 4
East of England -18 7 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North East -26 3 £62,500 +35.14% 1
Wales +13 1 £46,500 - 1
East Midlands -44 1 £60,000 +4.35%
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UK

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (13.33%) AWS
2 28 (11.67%) Azure
3 11 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.08%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.08%) GCP
5 4 (1.67%) IaaS
5 4 (1.67%) Mimecast
6 3 (1.25%) Cloudflare
6 3 (1.25%) PaaS
6 3 (1.25%) SaaS
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.83%) OpenDNS
7 2 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (0.83%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.42%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 206 (85.83%) BGP
2 116 (48.33%) WAN
3 107 (44.58%) Firewall
4 105 (43.75%) LAN
4 105 (43.75%) MPLS
5 75 (31.25%) Wireless
6 68 (28.33%) VPN
7 66 (27.50%) TCP/IP
8 60 (25.00%) EIGRP
9 52 (21.67%) SD-WAN
10 49 (20.42%) VLAN
11 47 (19.58%) IPsec
12 43 (17.92%) Cisco ASA
13 41 (17.08%) DHCP
14 38 (15.83%) WLAN
15 37 (15.42%) Wi-Fi
16 34 (14.17%) HSRP
17 33 (13.75%) DNS
18 32 (13.33%) Ethernet
18 32 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.83%) MariaDB
2 2 (0.83%) MySQL
2 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.08%) JIRA
2 4 (1.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 44 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (3.75%) Legal
3 8 (3.33%) Finance
3 8 (3.33%) Retail
3 8 (3.33%) Telecoms
4 4 (1.67%) Law
4 4 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.25%) Military
6 2 (0.83%) Electronics
6 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.42%) Automotive
7 1 (0.42%) Billing
7 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.42%) Police
7 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.42%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 118 (49.17%) Network Engineer
2 34 (14.17%) Senior
3 32 (13.33%) Analyst
3 32 (13.33%) Network Analyst
4 31 (12.92%) Network Operations Analyst
4 31 (12.92%) Operations Analyst
5 27 (11.25%) Network Support
6 26 (10.83%) Senior Network Engineer
7 19 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (7.08%) Cisco Engineer
8 17 (7.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 17 (7.08%) IP Engineer
8 17 (7.08%) IP Network Engineer
9 16 (6.67%) Network Specialist
10 15 (6.25%) Support Engineer
11 13 (5.42%) Juniper Engineer
11 13 (5.42%) Network Support Engineer
12 12 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
12 12 (5.00%) Architect
12 12 (5.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.42%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.67%) Akka
3 2 (0.83%) LAMP
3 2 (0.83%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.25%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (5.42%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.00%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.33%) PKI
6 7 (2.92%) Clustering
6 7 (2.92%) FMCG
7 6 (2.50%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.83%) Molecular Biology
10 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.42%) NHS
11 1 (0.42%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.42%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.08%) Linux
1 17 (7.08%) VyOS
2 15 (6.25%) Windows
3 10 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.92%) Android
4 7 (2.92%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.83%) Debian
6 2 (0.83%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 37 (15.42%) Network Design
3 30 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (10.83%) Mentoring
4 26 (10.83%) Network Monitoring
5 22 (9.17%) High Availability
6 21 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (7.92%) Network Architecture
7 19 (7.92%) Network Management
8 16 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (6.25%) Change Management
9 15 (6.25%) Information Security
10 13 (5.42%) Project Delivery
11 12 (5.00%) Business Analysis
12 11 (4.58%) Network Virtualisation
13 10 (4.17%) Agile
13 10 (4.17%) Computer Science
13 10 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (4.17%) ITSM
14 9 (3.75%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.42%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.33%) Python
3 3 (1.25%) Bash
4 1 (0.42%) SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (48.75%) Cisco Certification
2 77 (32.08%) CCNP
3 65 (27.08%) CCNA
4 59 (24.58%) Security Cleared
5 41 (17.08%) CCIE
6 35 (14.58%) CCDP
7 29 (12.08%) JNCIA
8 22 (9.17%) SC Cleared
9 15 (6.25%) Degree
10 9 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (3.75%) JNCIP
11 7 (2.92%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 7 (2.92%) JNCIS
12 5 (2.08%) HNC
12 5 (2.08%) HND
12 5 (2.08%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.67%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (1.25%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (7.50%) Firmware
2 13 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.08%) Docker
6 4 (1.67%) pfSense
6 4 (1.67%) vCloud
7 3 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.83%) NFS
8 2 (0.83%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (16.25%) FortiGate
2 12 (5.00%) Ansible
3 9 (3.75%) Terraform
4 7 (2.92%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (2.92%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.08%) Puppet
5 5 (2.08%) WSUS
6 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.83%) Backup Exec
6 2 (0.83%) Nagios
6 2 (0.83%) SCCM
7 1 (0.42%) Grafana
7 1 (0.42%) Nessus
7 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 162 (67.50%) Cisco
2 111 (46.25%) Juniper
3 73 (30.42%) Fortinet
4 35 (14.58%) Nokia
5 31 (12.92%) Palo Alto
6 25 (10.42%) Aruba
7 24 (10.00%) Meraki
7 24 (10.00%) Ruckus Wireless
8 18 (7.50%) McAfee
8 18 (7.50%) Microsoft
9 17 (7.08%) F5
9 17 (7.08%) Vyatta
10 16 (6.67%) SolarWinds
10 16 (6.67%) VMware
11 15 (6.25%) CheckPoint
12 14 (5.83%) Citrix
13 13 (5.42%) Extreme Networks
14 10 (4.17%) HP
15 8 (3.33%) Ubiquiti
16 7 (2.92%) Ekahau