OSPF Jobs in the West Midlands

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England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 223 259
Rank change year-on-year +11 +36 -45
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 49 24 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.61% 0.41% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.94% 2.22% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 33 21 25
10th Percentile - £35,375 -
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £58,750 £78,750 £78,750
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 992 1,079 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.38% 18.53% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 795 503 700
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,125 £32,000 £34,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -4.26% +2.17%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,800 £73,751 £75,000
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 West Midlands

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for OSPF in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Worcestershire - 15 £48,500 -
Birmingham -17 12 £62,500 - 3
Shropshire - 7 - -
Staffordshire -25 6 £48,500 +26.38%
Warwickshire - 5 £57,500 - 2
Coventry - 3 £44,295 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (4.08%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.16%) AWS
2 3 (6.12%) Azure
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.08%) Mimecast
3 2 (4.08%) OpenDNS
4 1 (2.04%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 42 (85.71%) BGP
2 36 (73.47%) LAN
2 36 (73.47%) MPLS
2 36 (73.47%) WAN
3 33 (67.35%) SD-WAN
4 28 (57.14%) WLAN
5 16 (32.65%) VLAN
6 15 (30.61%) Wireless
7 14 (28.57%) Firewall
8 12 (24.49%) EIGRP
9 10 (20.41%) VPN
10 9 (18.37%) HSRP
10 9 (18.37%) Network Security
10 9 (18.37%) VRRP
10 9 (18.37%) Wireshark
11 8 (16.33%) DNS
12 7 (14.29%) Spanning Tree
12 7 (14.29%) VoIP
13 5 (10.20%) DHCP
13 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Retail
3 6 (12.24%) Finance
3 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.12%) Legal
5 2 (4.08%) Law
6 1 (2.04%) Automotive
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (55.10%) Analyst
1 27 (55.10%) Network Analyst
2 26 (53.06%) Network Operations Analyst
2 26 (53.06%) Operations Analyst
3 13 (26.53%) Network Engineer
4 11 (22.45%) Senior
5 6 (12.24%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (12.24%) Senior Network Analyst
5 6 (12.24%) Senior Operations Analyst
6 5 (10.20%) Mobile Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Presales Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Presales Network Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) IT Support
8 2 (4.08%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) LAMP
1 2 (4.08%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) FMCG
2 5 (10.20%) PKI
3 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
1 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.04%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.37%) Change Management
2 8 (16.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 7 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 7 (14.29%) Demand Management
3 7 (14.29%) High Availability
3 7 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 7 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 7 (14.29%) Release Management
4 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (10.20%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (10.20%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (10.20%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (8.16%) Load Balancing
5 4 (8.16%) Migration
6 3 (6.12%) Presales
6 3 (6.12%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (4.08%) DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (4.08%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (57.14%) CCNP
1 28 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (55.10%) CCDP
2 27 (55.10%) CCIE
3 21 (42.86%) CCNA
4 7 (14.29%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) HNC
5 1 (2.04%) HND
5 1 (2.04%) MCSE
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Firmware
2 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (4.08%) Docker
3 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.08%) pfSense
3 2 (4.08%) Terminal Services
3 2 (4.08%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Ansible
1 2 (4.08%) Backup Exec
1 2 (4.08%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (53.06%) Cisco
2 13 (26.53%) Aruba
2 13 (26.53%) Juniper
3 7 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 7 (14.29%) Ekahau
3 7 (14.29%) HP
3 7 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 6 (12.24%) Ericsson
4 6 (12.24%) Nokia
5 5 (10.20%) Meraki
6 4 (8.16%) F5
6 4 (8.16%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.08%) Acronis
8 2 (4.08%) Citrix
8 2 (4.08%) Riverbed
8 2 (4.08%) SonicWALL
8 2 (4.08%) Sophos
8 2 (4.08%) Veeam
8 2 (4.08%) Veritas