OSPF Jobs in the Thames Valley

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South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OSPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OSPF over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 206 248
Rank change year-on-year -10 +42 -32
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 35 41 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.47% 0.74% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.52% 4.41% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27 32 32
10th Percentile £39,752 £40,500 £51,625
25th Percentile £50,000 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £45,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -37.93% +26.09%
75th Percentile £64,375 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,625 £78,375
South East median annual salary £52,500 £47,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.70% -14.55% +4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

OSPF falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 993 930 1,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.41% 16.70% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 684 539 739
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £37,389
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,875 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% +4.97%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing OSPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for OSPF in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for OSPF in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +5 26 £50,000 +11.11% 5
Oxfordshire -7 9 £65,000 +18.18%
OSPF
South East

OSPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.86%) GCP
3 1 (2.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (60.00%) BGP
2 20 (57.14%) Firewall
3 16 (45.71%) VPN
4 15 (42.86%) DNS
4 15 (42.86%) WAN
5 13 (37.14%) IPsec
6 12 (34.29%) LAN
7 11 (31.43%) MPLS
8 8 (22.86%) SD-WAN
8 8 (22.86%) Wireless
9 7 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (20.00%) Network Security
9 7 (20.00%) SSL
10 6 (17.14%) HSRP
10 6 (17.14%) Spanning Tree
10 6 (17.14%) VLAN
11 4 (11.43%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Electronics
2 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Billing
3 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Lead
2 7 (20.00%) Network Support
2 7 (20.00%) Network Team Leader
2 7 (20.00%) Team Leader
3 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Professional Services Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Firewall Specialist
4 4 (11.43%) Network Specialist
5 3 (8.57%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Presales Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Presales Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Network Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (17.14%) Driving Licence
2 6 (17.14%) PKI
3 2 (5.71%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Molecular Biology
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Android
2 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) VMS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 8 (22.86%) Network Management
3 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (17.14%) Creative Thinking
4 6 (17.14%) Information Security
4 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (14.29%) Network Architecture
6 4 (11.43%) Innovative Thinking
7 3 (8.57%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (8.57%) Presales
7 3 (8.57%) Reverse Engineering
8 2 (5.71%) Agile
8 2 (5.71%) Biology
8 2 (5.71%) Capacity Management
8 2 (5.71%) Change Control
8 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (5.71%) Informatics
8 2 (5.71%) Security Hardening
8 2 (5.71%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (28.57%) CCNP
4 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.57%) CCNA
6 2 (5.71%) CCIE
7 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.86%) CCSA
7 1 (2.86%) CCSE
7 1 (2.86%) CISSP
7 1 (2.86%) Degree
7 1 (2.86%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (17.14%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Firmware
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Grafana
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Nessus
1 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Cisco
2 15 (42.86%) Juniper
3 12 (34.29%) Extreme Networks
4 8 (22.86%) Palo Alto
5 7 (20.00%) Aruba
5 7 (20.00%) F5
6 6 (17.14%) Infoblox
7 5 (14.29%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.86%) Blue Coat
8 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.86%) Dell
8 1 (2.86%) HP
8 1 (2.86%) McAfee
8 1 (2.86%) ProCurve
8 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.86%) VMware
8 1 (2.86%) Zscaler