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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 608 749
Rank change year-on-year +21 +141 -217
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 332 372 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.42% 2.43% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 248 307 388
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,742
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.94% +8.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% -

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 13,702 15,312 22,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.81% 16.31% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,415 7,633 11,891
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,345 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.46% -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 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the UK

OSPF
Top 16 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 6 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
England +34 319 £52,500 -4.55% 69
UK excluding London -14 240 £48,500 +2.11% 48
Work from Home +7 133 £52,500 -19.23% 39
South East +7 88 £52,750 +13.44% 20
London +56 85 £70,000 +7.69% 25
North of England +37 77 £42,500 -9.57% 15
North West +36 64 £40,000 -42.86% 10
Midlands +6 51 £48,500 -17.45% 3
West Midlands +3 50 £48,500 -19.17% 3
Yorkshire +55 16 £47,500 +5.56% 5
South West -37 16 £48,500 -3.00% 4
Scotland -71 9 £65,000 - 4
East of England -22 7 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North East -29 3 £62,500 +47.06% 1
Wales +10 1 £46,500 -
East Midlands -32 1 £60,000 +4.35%

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 (2.41%) Skype for Business
2 7 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 55 (16.57%) Azure
2 52 (15.66%) AWS
3 12 (3.61%) AWS Direct Connect
3 12 (3.61%) IaaS
3 12 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.01%) PaaS
4 10 (3.01%) SaaS
5 8 (2.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (1.51%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.51%) GCP
7 4 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (0.90%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.60%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.60%) OpenDNS
9 2 (0.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (0.60%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.30%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 294 (88.55%) BGP
2 176 (53.01%) WAN
3 175 (52.71%) Firewall
4 160 (48.19%) MPLS
5 152 (45.78%) LAN
6 114 (34.34%) VPN
7 103 (31.02%) SD-WAN
7 103 (31.02%) TCP/IP
7 103 (31.02%) Wireless
8 77 (23.19%) EIGRP
9 76 (22.89%) VLAN
10 65 (19.58%) IPsec
11 63 (18.98%) Network Security
12 61 (18.37%) DHCP
13 58 (17.47%) DNS
14 53 (15.96%) Wi-Fi
15 49 (14.76%) Cisco ASA
16 47 (14.16%) Ethernet
17 46 (13.86%) Internet
18 45 (13.55%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.51%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.30%) MySQL
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.51%) JIRA
2 4 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.30%) GitLab
3 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (17.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.13%) Law
3 26 (7.83%) Finance
4 23 (6.93%) Telecoms
5 22 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.31%) Retail
7 10 (3.01%) Legal
8 5 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.20%) Publishing
10 3 (0.90%) Billing
10 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Military
11 2 (0.60%) Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Electronics
11 2 (0.60%) Front Office
11 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Automotive
12 1 (0.30%) Police
12 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 172 (51.81%) Network Engineer
2 58 (17.47%) Senior
3 45 (13.55%) Analyst
3 45 (13.55%) Network Analyst
4 44 (13.25%) Senior Network Engineer
5 34 (10.24%) Network Operations Analyst
5 34 (10.24%) Operations Analyst
6 28 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (8.13%) Network Support
8 22 (6.63%) Cisco Engineer
8 22 (6.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 21 (6.33%) Architect
10 18 (5.42%) Support Engineer
11 17 (5.12%) IP Engineer
11 17 (5.12%) IP Network Engineer
12 16 (4.82%) Network Specialist
13 14 (4.22%) Juniper Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) Lead
14 13 (3.92%) Network Architect
14 13 (3.92%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.16%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.41%) SAML
3 7 (2.11%) HTML
3 7 (2.11%) XML
4 5 (1.51%) XMPP
5 4 (1.20%) Akka
6 3 (0.90%) CSS
7 2 (0.60%) LAMP
7 2 (0.60%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.30%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.30%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 85 (25.60%) Data Centre
2 26 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.92%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.61%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.01%) Client/Server
6 9 (2.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (2.41%) PKI
7 8 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (2.11%) Clustering
8 7 (2.11%) FMCG
9 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.51%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.90%) Smart City
12 2 (0.60%) Molecular Biology
12 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.43%) Linux
2 17 (5.12%) VyOS
3 15 (4.52%) Windows
4 9 (2.71%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.41%) Unix
6 7 (2.11%) Android
6 7 (2.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.90%) Debian
8 2 (0.60%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (15.06%) Network Design
2 45 (13.55%) Customer Service
3 42 (12.65%) Mentoring
4 38 (11.45%) Network Management
4 38 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (9.34%) Network Monitoring
6 30 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (9.04%) ITIL
7 25 (7.53%) Load Balancing
7 25 (7.53%) Network Architecture
8 23 (6.93%) Information Security
9 22 (6.63%) High Availability
10 20 (6.02%) Roadmaps
10 20 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (5.72%) Network Virtualisation
12 16 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (4.82%) Project Delivery
13 15 (4.52%) Change Management
13 15 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (3.92%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.53%) Python
2 22 (6.63%) PowerShell
3 8 (2.41%) Bash
4 1 (0.30%) Go
4 1 (0.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 157 (47.29%) Cisco Certification
2 105 (31.63%) CCNP
3 87 (26.20%) CCNA
4 63 (18.98%) Security Cleared
5 52 (15.66%) CCIE
6 39 (11.75%) CCDP
7 30 (9.04%) JNCIA
8 27 (8.13%) Degree
9 24 (7.23%) SC Cleared
10 13 (3.92%) JNCIP
11 9 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.71%) JNCIS
12 8 (2.41%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 5 (1.51%) HNC
13 5 (1.51%) HND
13 5 (1.51%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.20%) Chartered Engineer
15 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.90%) MCT
16 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.63%) SLA
2 12 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.51%) NIST
4 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.82%) Firmware
3 11 (3.31%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.20%) Docker
5 4 (1.20%) vCloud
6 3 (0.90%) pfSense
6 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.60%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.30%) NFS
8 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (15.96%) FortiGate
2 16 (4.82%) Ansible
3 14 (4.22%) Puppet
4 10 (3.01%) Terraform
5 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.41%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.11%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.81%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.81%) WSUS
8 4 (1.20%) Nagios
8 4 (1.20%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.60%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.60%) Icinga
10 1 (0.30%) CASB
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.30%) Grafana
10 1 (0.30%) SCCM
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 218 (65.66%) Cisco
2 131 (39.46%) Juniper
3 89 (26.81%) Fortinet
4 44 (13.25%) Palo Alto
5 36 (10.84%) Meraki
6 35 (10.54%) Nokia
7 34 (10.24%) Microsoft
8 33 (9.94%) CheckPoint
9 29 (8.73%) SolarWinds
10 28 (8.43%) F5
11 24 (7.23%) Aruba
11 24 (7.23%) Ruckus Wireless
12 17 (5.12%) McAfee
12 17 (5.12%) Vyatta
13 16 (4.82%) VMware
14 12 (3.61%) Citrix
14 12 (3.61%) Extreme Networks
14 12 (3.61%) HP
15 11 (3.31%) Arista
16 10 (3.01%) Google