Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 639 738
Rank change year-on-year +56 +99 -217
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 326 360 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.42% 2.30% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 260 295 385
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,375 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -7.54% +8.15%
75th Percentile £65,313 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,375 £85,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £46,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.30% -11.43% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,478 15,631 21,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.76% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,898 11,750
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,580 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England +92 313 £51,250 -6.39% 88
UK excluding London +10 241 £48,500 +4.30% 70
Work from Home +44 124 £50,000 -28.57% 47
South East 0 81 £52,750 +13.44% 23
London +68 79 £70,000 +7.69% 34
North of England +65 75 £42,500 -9.57% 21
North West +50 63 £40,000 -42.86% 13
Midlands +15 55 £48,500 -20.82% 5
West Midlands +42 54 £48,500 -19.17% 3
South West -12 24 £48,500 -3.00% 5
Yorkshire +67 15 £48,250 +7.22% 8
Scotland -60 8 £65,000 - 9
East of England -3 5 £62,500 +4.17% 4
North East -21 3 £62,500 +56.25% 1
Wales +7 1 £46,500 - 2
East Midlands -14 1 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.45%) Skype for Business
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.18%) Azure
2 46 (14.11%) AWS
3 14 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.68%) AWS Direct Connect
4 12 (3.68%) IaaS
5 7 (2.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (2.15%) PaaS
5 7 (2.15%) SaaS
6 5 (1.53%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.23%) GCP
8 2 (0.61%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.61%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.61%) OpenDNS
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.31%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.31%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 289 (88.65%) BGP
2 181 (55.52%) WAN
3 163 (50.00%) MPLS
4 160 (49.08%) Firewall
5 159 (48.77%) LAN
6 111 (34.05%) TCP/IP
7 108 (33.13%) VPN
8 105 (32.21%) SD-WAN
9 104 (31.90%) Wireless
10 84 (25.77%) VLAN
11 68 (20.86%) EIGRP
12 65 (19.94%) DNS
13 63 (19.33%) DHCP
14 56 (17.18%) IPsec
15 55 (16.87%) Network Security
16 50 (15.34%) Ethernet
16 50 (15.34%) Wi-Fi
17 46 (14.11%) Internet
17 46 (14.11%) WLAN
18 44 (13.50%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.31%) MySQL
3 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.23%) JIRA
1 4 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (7.98%) Law
4 24 (7.36%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.83%) Finance
6 10 (3.07%) Retail
7 9 (2.76%) Legal
8 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.23%) Military
9 4 (1.23%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.23%) Publishing
10 3 (0.92%) Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Billing
11 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Electronics
11 2 (0.61%) Front Office
11 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.61%) Police
12 1 (0.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 169 (51.84%) Network Engineer
2 56 (17.18%) Senior
3 47 (14.42%) Analyst
3 47 (14.42%) Network Analyst
4 44 (13.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 35 (10.74%) Network Operations Analyst
5 35 (10.74%) Operations Analyst
6 28 (8.59%) Network Support
7 25 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (6.44%) Architect
8 21 (6.44%) Cisco Engineer
8 21 (6.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 19 (5.83%) IP Engineer
9 19 (5.83%) IP Network Engineer
9 19 (5.83%) Support Engineer
10 16 (4.91%) Network Specialist
11 14 (4.29%) Juniper Engineer
11 14 (4.29%) Network Support Engineer
12 13 (3.99%) Lead
12 13 (3.99%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.03%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.45%) SAML
3 7 (2.15%) HTML
3 7 (2.15%) XML
4 5 (1.53%) XMPP
5 4 (1.23%) Akka
6 3 (0.92%) CSS
7 2 (0.61%) LAMP
7 2 (0.61%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 84 (25.77%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.99%) Virtual Team
4 12 (3.68%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.07%) Client/Server
5 10 (3.07%) PKI
6 8 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (2.15%) Clustering
7 7 (2.15%) FMCG
8 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.23%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.92%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.92%) Smart City
12 2 (0.61%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.82%) Linux
2 18 (5.52%) VyOS
2 18 (5.52%) Windows
3 9 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.45%) Unix
5 7 (2.15%) Android
5 7 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.61%) Debian
7 2 (0.61%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.61%) VMS
7 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (13.50%) Network Design
3 42 (12.88%) Mentoring
4 41 (12.58%) Customer Service
5 34 (10.43%) Network Management
6 32 (9.82%) ITIL
7 31 (9.51%) Network Architecture
7 31 (9.51%) Network Monitoring
8 29 (8.90%) Load Balancing
9 25 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (6.44%) High Availability
10 21 (6.44%) Information Security
10 21 (6.44%) Roadmaps
11 18 (5.52%) Network Virtualisation
11 18 (5.52%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (5.21%) Project Delivery
13 16 (4.91%) Change Management
14 13 (3.99%) DevOps
15 12 (3.68%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.06%) Python
2 21 (6.44%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.76%) Bash
4 1 (0.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 107 (32.82%) CCNP
3 91 (27.91%) CCNA
4 59 (18.10%) CCIE
5 55 (16.87%) Security Cleared
6 43 (13.19%) CCDP
7 32 (9.82%) JNCIA
8 27 (8.28%) Degree
9 19 (5.83%) SC Cleared
10 10 (3.07%) JNCIP
11 9 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.45%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 8 (2.45%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.53%) HNC
13 5 (1.53%) HND
13 5 (1.53%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
15 3 (0.92%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.92%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.13%) SLA
2 13 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (7.67%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.91%) Firmware
3 13 (3.99%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.53%) Docker
6 4 (1.23%) vCloud
6 4 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.61%) pfSense
8 2 (0.61%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (13.80%) FortiGate
2 16 (4.91%) Ansible
3 15 (4.60%) Puppet
4 10 (3.07%) Terraform
5 8 (2.45%) Nagios
5 8 (2.45%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.15%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.84%) Icinga
7 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.53%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.53%) SolarWinds Orion
8 5 (1.53%) WSUS
9 3 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.61%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.61%) Grafana
10 2 (0.61%) Nessus
10 2 (0.61%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 208 (63.80%) Cisco
2 134 (41.10%) Juniper
3 81 (24.85%) Fortinet
4 36 (11.04%) Nokia
4 36 (11.04%) Palo Alto
5 34 (10.43%) Meraki
6 32 (9.82%) Microsoft
7 29 (8.90%) CheckPoint
8 28 (8.59%) F5
9 26 (7.98%) Ruckus Wireless
9 26 (7.98%) SolarWinds
10 21 (6.44%) Aruba
11 19 (5.83%) VMware
12 18 (5.52%) Vyatta
13 14 (4.29%) McAfee
14 12 (3.68%) Arista
15 11 (3.37%) Extreme Networks
15 11 (3.37%) HP
16 10 (3.07%) Google
17 8 (2.45%) Ribbon