The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Bristol region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 45 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.594% 0.228% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.615% 1.709% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £21.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £33.97
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.85%
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 117 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 12.87% 13.33% 9.812%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 68 31
Average daily rate £300 £350 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 9
Average hourly rate £38.50 £21.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+79.06% -43.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £18.50 £8.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
OSPF
South West

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OSPF across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Bristol OSPF Jobs Demand Trend

OSPF
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OSPF across the Bristol region.

Bristol OSPF Daily Rate Trend

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OSPF across the Bristol region.

Bristol OSPF Hourly Rate Trend

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing OSPF also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OSPF.

1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (85.71%) FWSM
3 5 (71.43%) MPLS
4 4 (57.14%) Wireless
4 4 (57.14%) IP Telephony
4 4 (57.14%) IBM
4 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 4 (57.14%) CA
4 4 (57.14%) Nokia
4 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
4 4 (57.14%) HP
4 4 (57.14%) CiscoWorks
4 4 (57.14%) Network Management
4 4 (57.14%) Unified Communications
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco IPT
4 4 (57.14%) IronPort
5 3 (42.86%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (42.86%) Blue Coat
5 3 (42.86%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (42.86%) Juniper
5 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (28.57%) TACACS
6 2 (28.57%) IPsec
6 2 (28.57%) 3G
6 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing OSPF also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OSPF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) BGP
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (85.71%) FWSM
2 5 (71.43%) MPLS
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (57.14%) Unified Communications
3 4 (57.14%) IP Telephony
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco IPT
3 4 (57.14%) Wireless
3 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (42.86%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (28.57%) IPsec
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (28.57%) SNMP
5 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (28.57%) TACACS
5 2 (28.57%) 3G
6 1 (14.29%) LAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Network Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Network Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) IP Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Network Management
2 3 (42.86%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) HP
2 4 (57.14%) CA
2 4 (57.14%) Nokia
2 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
2 4 (57.14%) IronPort
2 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
3 3 (42.86%) Blue Coat
3 3 (42.86%) Juniper