The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Crawley 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 21 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 2.685% 0.361% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.33% 6.250% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £31.44
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -28.43%
All Communications & Networking
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
30 16 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 20.13% 5.776% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 5
Average daily rate £390 £140 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+178.57% -58.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £140 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
OSPF
West Sussex

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley OSPF Jobs Demand 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 Crawley region.

Crawley OSPF Hourly Rate Trend

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Junos
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Verint
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (50.00%) H.323
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IPCC
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) IVR
2 2 (50.00%) SecurID
2 2 (50.00%) VPLS
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 4 (100.00%) Wireless
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Junos
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (50.00%) H.323
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) VPLS
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) ISDN
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) VoIP
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) IVR
1 2 (50.00%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Verint
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Riverbed
2 2 (50.00%) CA
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Nortel
2 2 (50.00%) Avaya