The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 - 81 -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.155% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.826% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £288 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £31.44
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -28.43%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
104 242 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.15% 18.73% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 84 35
Average daily rate £299 £300 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.41% -1.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £441 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
OSPF
North West

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester OSPF Hourly Rate Trend

OSPF
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Frame Relay
2 1 (50.00%) Handset
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) X.25
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Frame Relay
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) X.25
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Technician
1 1 (50.00%) Network Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Handset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco