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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 646 710
Rank change year-on-year +58 +64 -178
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 328 349 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.43% 2.22% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 262 285 383
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £32,550
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £55,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% -7.54% +8.15%
75th Percentile £64,688 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £46,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.30% -15.45% +10.00%

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 13,516 15,741 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.58% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,426 8,007 11,698
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -3.23% +3.33%

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 10 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 10 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 +116 315 £50,250 -4.29% 77
UK excluding London +35 244 £48,500 +4.30% 55
Work from Home +43 126 £50,000 -28.57% 40
South East +10 82 £52,500 +12.90% 14
London +82 77 £70,000 +7.69% 34
North of England +57 75 £42,500 -9.57% 14
North West +46 62 £40,000 -42.86% 8
Midlands +13 57 £48,500 -16.74% 5
West Midlands +33 56 £48,500 -16.74% 3
South West -5 24 £48,500 -3.00% 7
Yorkshire +70 16 £49,000 +8.89% 5
Scotland -56 8 £65,000 - 8
East of England +11 5 £62,500 +4.17% 4
North East -21 3 £62,500 +56.25% 2
Wales +7 1 £46,500 - 4
East Midlands -20 1 £60,000 +6.67% 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 (2.44%) Skype for Business
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (17.68%) Azure
2 48 (14.63%) AWS
3 14 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.66%) AWS Direct Connect
4 12 (3.66%) IaaS
5 7 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (2.13%) PaaS
5 7 (2.13%) SaaS
6 5 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.22%) 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 (0.30%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 291 (88.72%) BGP
2 183 (55.79%) WAN
3 163 (49.70%) MPLS
4 160 (48.78%) LAN
5 159 (48.48%) Firewall
6 111 (33.84%) TCP/IP
7 109 (33.23%) VPN
8 107 (32.62%) SD-WAN
9 104 (31.71%) Wireless
10 83 (25.30%) VLAN
11 69 (21.04%) EIGRP
12 67 (20.43%) DNS
13 64 (19.51%) DHCP
14 55 (16.77%) IPsec
15 54 (16.46%) Network Security
16 50 (15.24%) Wi-Fi
17 49 (14.94%) Ethernet
18 48 (14.63%) WLAN
19 46 (14.02%) Internet
20 45 (13.72%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.30%) MySQL
3 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.22%) JIRA
1 4 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (7.62%) Law
4 24 (7.32%) Telecoms
5 18 (5.49%) Finance
6 10 (3.05%) Retail
7 9 (2.74%) Legal
8 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.52%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.22%) Military
9 4 (1.22%) Publishing
10 3 (0.91%) 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 (0.30%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 168 (51.22%) Network Engineer
2 56 (17.07%) Senior
3 49 (14.94%) Analyst
3 49 (14.94%) Network Analyst
4 44 (13.41%) Senior Network Engineer
5 37 (11.28%) Network Operations Analyst
5 37 (11.28%) Operations Analyst
6 27 (8.23%) Network Support
7 25 (7.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (6.40%) Architect
8 21 (6.40%) Cisco Engineer
8 21 (6.40%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 19 (5.79%) IP Engineer
9 19 (5.79%) IP Network Engineer
10 18 (5.49%) Support Engineer
11 16 (4.88%) Network Specialist
12 14 (4.27%) Juniper Engineer
13 13 (3.96%) Lead
13 13 (3.96%) Network Architect
13 13 (3.96%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.94%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.44%) SAML
3 7 (2.13%) HTML
3 7 (2.13%) XML
4 5 (1.52%) XMPP
5 4 (1.22%) Akka
6 3 (0.91%) CSS
7 2 (0.61%) LAMP
7 2 (0.61%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 83 (25.30%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (3.96%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.96%) Virtual Team
4 12 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.05%) Client/Server
5 10 (3.05%) PKI
6 8 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (2.13%) Clustering
7 7 (2.13%) FMCG
8 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.22%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.91%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.91%) Smart City
12 2 (0.61%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.45%) Linux
2 18 (5.49%) VyOS
2 18 (5.49%) Windows
3 9 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.44%) Unix
5 7 (2.13%) Android
5 7 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.61%) Debian
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 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (13.72%) Network Design
3 42 (12.80%) Mentoring
4 41 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 33 (10.06%) Network Management
5 33 (10.06%) Network Monitoring
6 31 (9.45%) ITIL
6 31 (9.45%) Network Architecture
7 28 (8.54%) Load Balancing
8 25 (7.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (6.40%) High Availability
9 21 (6.40%) Information Security
10 20 (6.10%) Roadmaps
11 18 (5.49%) Network Virtualisation
11 18 (5.49%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (5.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (5.18%) Project Delivery
13 16 (4.88%) Change Management
14 13 (3.96%) DevOps
15 12 (3.66%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.71%) Python
2 21 (6.40%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.74%) Bash
4 1 (0.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 166 (50.61%) Cisco Certification
2 110 (33.54%) CCNP
3 94 (28.66%) CCNA
4 61 (18.60%) CCIE
5 56 (17.07%) Security Cleared
6 45 (13.72%) CCDP
7 32 (9.76%) JNCIA
8 27 (8.23%) Degree
9 19 (5.79%) SC Cleared
10 10 (3.05%) JNCIP
11 9 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.44%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 8 (2.44%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.52%) HNC
13 5 (1.52%) HND
13 5 (1.52%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.22%) Chartered Engineer
15 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.91%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.10%) SLA
2 13 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (7.62%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.88%) Firmware
3 14 (4.27%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.52%) Docker
5 5 (1.52%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.22%) vCloud
6 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.61%) pfSense
8 2 (0.61%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (13.72%) FortiGate
2 15 (4.57%) Ansible
2 15 (4.57%) Puppet
3 10 (3.05%) Terraform
4 9 (2.74%) Nagios
5 8 (2.44%) Icinga
5 8 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.52%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.52%) SolarWinds Orion
8 5 (1.52%) WSUS
9 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.91%) Grafana
10 2 (0.61%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.61%) Nessus
10 2 (0.61%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 208 (63.41%) Cisco
2 134 (40.85%) Juniper
3 82 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 36 (10.98%) Nokia
5 34 (10.37%) Meraki
5 34 (10.37%) Palo Alto
6 32 (9.76%) Microsoft
7 29 (8.84%) CheckPoint
8 27 (8.23%) F5
9 26 (7.93%) Ruckus Wireless
9 26 (7.93%) SolarWinds
10 21 (6.40%) Aruba
10 21 (6.40%) VMware
11 18 (5.49%) Vyatta
12 14 (4.27%) McAfee
13 11 (3.35%) Arista
13 11 (3.35%) Extreme Networks
13 11 (3.35%) HP
14 10 (3.05%) Google
15 8 (2.44%) Tufin