The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 67 31 58
Rank change year-on-year
-36 +27
Contract jobs citing OSPF 4 50 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.465% 4.394% 1.843%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.030% 10.44% 9.223%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 4
Average daily rate £325 £283 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.04% -13.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £350 £309
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +13.36%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
197 479 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.88% 42.09% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 110 70
Average daily rate £275 £285 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -24.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 7
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
OSPF
Berkshire

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading OSPF Hourly Rate Trend

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 19 (100.00%) BGP
2 17 (89.47%) MPLS
3 16 (84.21%) Telecoms
4 15 (78.95%) VPN
5 14 (73.68%) Network Design
6 13 (68.42%) HSRP
7 12 (63.16%) Radio Access Network
7 12 (63.16%) VRRP
7 12 (63.16%) Ethernet
8 11 (57.89%) RSVP
8 11 (57.89%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (42.11%) Cisco
10 5 (26.32%) MS Office
10 5 (26.32%) 4G
10 5 (26.32%) Project Planning
10 5 (26.32%) LTE
11 3 (15.79%) VLAN
11 3 (15.79%) Firewall
11 3 (15.79%) LAN
11 3 (15.79%) SNMP
11 3 (15.79%) WAN
11 3 (15.79%) DHCP
11 3 (15.79%) Juniper
11 3 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
12 2 (10.53%) 3G
12 2 (10.53%) DNS
12 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (10.53%) VoIP

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (5.263%) CSS
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) BGP
2 17 (89.47%) MPLS
3 15 (78.95%) VPN
4 13 (68.42%) HSRP
5 12 (63.16%) Radio Access Network
5 12 (63.16%) VRRP
5 12 (63.16%) Ethernet
6 11 (57.89%) RSVP
7 5 (26.32%) 4G
7 5 (26.32%) LTE
8 3 (15.79%) VLAN
8 3 (15.79%) Firewall
8 3 (15.79%) LAN
8 3 (15.79%) SNMP
8 3 (15.79%) WAN
8 3 (15.79%) DHCP
8 3 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (10.53%) 3G
9 2 (10.53%) DNS
General
1 16 (84.21%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.263%) Back Office
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Network Engineer
1 13 (68.42%) Design Engineer
2 11 (57.89%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) IP Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Network Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Network Design Architect
5 1 (5.263%) IP Network Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) Network Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) Network Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Network Design
2 11 (57.89%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (26.32%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.263%) Network Management
4 1 (5.263%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.263%) JNCIP
2 1 (5.263%) JNCIE
2 1 (5.263%) CCIE
2 1 (5.263%) CCSP
2 1 (5.263%) CCNP
2 1 (5.263%) CCNA
2 1 (5.263%) CCDP
2 1 (5.263%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) HP NNM
1 1 (5.263%) OpenView
1 1 (5.263%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco
2 3 (15.79%) Juniper
3 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
3 2 (10.53%) Redback
4 1 (5.263%) TippingPoint
4 1 (5.263%) NetScout
4 1 (5.263%) Blue Coat
4 1 (5.263%) HP
4 1 (5.263%) Nokia