OSPF Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 23 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 London 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 324 284 357
Rank change year-on-year
-40 +73
Contract jobs citing OSPF 53 127 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.245% 0.472% 0.247%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.887% 3.445% 2.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 79 37
Average daily rate £350 £400 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £314 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £31.44
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -28.43%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 2809 3686 3446
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.98% 13.69% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1711 2238 1978
Average daily rate £400 £395 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.26% +1.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 148 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.34 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
OSPF
England

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London OSPF Daily Rate Trend

OSPF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OSPF across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London OSPF Daily Rate Histogram

OSPF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London OSPF Hourly Rate Trend

OSPF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London -5 15 £351 -14.90%
Hammersmith - 4 - -
Uxbridge +6 1 - -
Hounslow - 1 £450 -
Docklands, London - 1 £315 -
OSPF
England

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 107 (86.29%) Cisco
2 105 (84.68%) BGP
3 71 (57.26%) Firewall
4 68 (54.84%) Cisco Certification
5 62 (50.00%) MPLS
6 60 (48.39%) LAN
7 53 (42.74%) WAN
8 47 (37.90%) VPN
8 47 (37.90%) Wireless
9 45 (36.29%) Juniper
10 41 (33.06%) CCNP
11 35 (28.23%) EIGRP
12 33 (26.61%) TCP/IP
13 31 (25.00%) CCIE
14 27 (21.77%) Cisco ASA
15 26 (20.97%) IPsec
15 26 (20.97%) Migration
15 26 (20.97%) Network Management
16 25 (20.16%) Cisco Nexus
16 25 (20.16%) Telecoms
16 25 (20.16%) Network Security
17 24 (19.35%) DNS
17 24 (19.35%) F5
18 23 (18.55%) CCNA
18 23 (18.55%) CheckPoint
18 23 (18.55%) Load Balancing
19 22 (17.74%) Finance
19 22 (17.74%) HP
19 22 (17.74%) SNMP
19 22 (17.74%) VoIP

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

Application Development
1 5 (4.032%) Web Services
2 2 (1.613%) CSS
3 1 (0.806%) WSH
3 1 (0.806%) XML
3 1 (0.806%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.613%) Lync
2 1 (0.806%) Apache
2 1 (0.806%) IIS
2 1 (0.806%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (6.452%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.226%) MS Excel
3 3 (2.419%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 105 (84.68%) BGP
2 71 (57.26%) Firewall
3 62 (50.00%) MPLS
4 60 (48.39%) LAN
5 53 (42.74%) WAN
6 47 (37.90%) VPN
6 47 (37.90%) Wireless
7 35 (28.23%) EIGRP
8 33 (26.61%) TCP/IP
9 27 (21.77%) Cisco ASA
10 26 (20.97%) IPsec
11 25 (20.16%) Cisco Nexus
11 25 (20.16%) Network Security
12 24 (19.35%) DNS
13 22 (17.74%) SNMP
13 22 (17.74%) VoIP
14 20 (16.13%) Ethernet
14 20 (16.13%) VLAN
15 18 (14.52%) Cisco IOS
15 18 (14.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.806%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (0.806%) SQL Server
General
1 25 (20.16%) Telecoms
2 22 (17.74%) Finance
3 7 (5.645%) Banking
4 3 (2.419%) Financial Institution
4 3 (2.419%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.613%) Legal
6 1 (0.806%) Games
6 1 (0.806%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (45.97%) Network Engineer
2 20 (16.13%) Architect
3 15 (12.10%) Network Architect
4 13 (10.48%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (8.871%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 10 (8.065%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.258%) Firewall Engineer
8 8 (6.452%) Analyst
9 7 (5.645%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.839%) Senior Network Engineer
11 5 (4.032%) Migration Engineer
11 5 (4.032%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (4.032%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.032%) IP Engineer
12 4 (3.226%) Deployment Engineer
12 4 (3.226%) Network Analyst
12 4 (3.226%) Network Security Engineer
12 4 (3.226%) Network Consultant
12 4 (3.226%) Consultant
13 3 (2.419%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.065%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (3.226%) Data Integration
3 3 (2.419%) Handset
3 3 (2.419%) e-Health
3 3 (2.419%) Statistics
4 2 (1.613%) SecurID
4 2 (1.613%) Clustering
4 2 (1.613%) NHS
5 1 (0.806%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.806%) Streaming Video
5 1 (0.806%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.806%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.806%) Online Games
5 1 (0.806%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.806%) Open Source
5 1 (0.806%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.677%) Windows
1 12 (9.677%) Linux
2 11 (8.871%) UNIX
3 7 (5.645%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.419%) Solaris
4 3 (2.419%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.613%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.613%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.806%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.806%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.97%) Migration
1 26 (20.97%) Network Management
2 23 (18.55%) Load Balancing
3 17 (13.71%) ITIL
4 13 (10.48%) E-Commerce
5 11 (8.871%) Network Design
5 11 (8.871%) Network Architecture
6 9 (7.258%) Incident Management
6 9 (7.258%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (6.452%) Project Planning
7 8 (6.452%) Project Management
8 7 (5.645%) Information Security
8 7 (5.645%) TOGAF
9 6 (4.839%) High Availability
9 6 (4.839%) Change Control
9 6 (4.839%) Service Delivery
10 5 (4.032%) Change Management
10 5 (4.032%) Service Management
10 5 (4.032%) Scrum
10 5 (4.032%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.806%) Python
1 1 (0.806%) C
1 1 (0.806%) Perl
1 1 (0.806%) SQL
1 1 (0.806%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.806%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 68 (54.84%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (33.06%) CCNP
3 31 (25.00%) CCIE
4 23 (18.55%) CCNA
5 16 (12.90%) Security Cleared
6 15 (12.10%) SC Cleared
7 9 (7.258%) CCDP
7 9 (7.258%) Degree
8 8 (6.452%) JNCIE
9 5 (4.032%) JNCIA
9 5 (4.032%) HP APS
10 4 (3.226%) JNCIP
11 3 (2.419%) CCSE
12 2 (1.613%) JNCIS
12 2 (1.613%) GCIA
12 2 (1.613%) GCIH
12 2 (1.613%) GIAC
12 2 (1.613%) CCSA
12 2 (1.613%) CCVP
12 2 (1.613%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.48%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.839%) SLA
3 3 (2.419%) QA
4 2 (1.613%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.613%) COBIT
4 2 (1.613%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (6.452%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.645%) ProxySG
3 3 (2.419%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.613%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.613%) Xen
4 2 (1.613%) Nmap
5 1 (0.806%) Snort
5 1 (0.806%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.806%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (7.258%) FortiGate
2 8 (6.452%) OpenView
3 6 (4.839%) Cisco CUCM
4 5 (4.032%) CiscoWorks
5 2 (1.613%) WhatsUp Gold
5 2 (1.613%) Cisco IPCC
6 1 (0.806%) Nagios
6 1 (0.806%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.806%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.806%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.806%) Cacti
6 1 (0.806%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 107 (86.29%) Cisco
2 45 (36.29%) Juniper
3 24 (19.35%) F5
4 23 (18.55%) CheckPoint
5 22 (17.74%) HP
6 17 (13.71%) Citrix
7 14 (11.29%) Fortinet
7 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
7 14 (11.29%) Nokia
8 13 (10.48%) Infoblox
9 11 (8.871%) Blue Coat
10 9 (7.258%) Sourcefire
10 9 (7.258%) Aruba
11 8 (6.452%) Polycom
11 8 (6.452%) VMware
12 7 (5.645%) Red Hat
12 7 (5.645%) SolarWinds
13 6 (4.839%) Brocade
14 5 (4.032%) 3Com
14 5 (4.032%) Huawei
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City, London
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Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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City, London
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Posted: 21 May 2013
Network Engineer
West London
ITIL Service Management... Scrum and KanBan Methodology experience... MPLS, IPSEC VPN, Firewalls and TACACS authentication. Wireless, VOIP and Security technologies... Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper...
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Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 20 May 2013
Network Implementation Enginer
City, London
I urgently require 3 ( primarily Huawei skilled) Network Design/Implementation Engineers for a core network upgrade programme. The Network Design/Implementation Engineer must primarily have experience of Huawei...
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