OSPF Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 100 130 118
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -12
Contract jobs citing OSPF 8 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.397% 0.185% 0.141%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.712% 1.134% 1.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £300 £519 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.16% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £21.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £31.44
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -28.43%
Search 6 OSPF jobs in the South West
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 295 529 371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.63% 16.35% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 270 151
Average daily rate £350 £400 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +15.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £265 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 38 54
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -22.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.93 £20.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.10 £42.50 £41.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
OSPF
England

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bristol +15 3 £300 -
Wiltshire +1 3 - -
OSPF
England

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (83.33%) BGP
3 9 (75.00%) MPLS
3 9 (75.00%) Firewall
4 7 (58.33%) CCNP
4 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (58.33%) VPN
5 6 (50.00%) Juniper
5 6 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (50.00%) FWSM
6 5 (41.67%) WAN
6 5 (41.67%) IPsec
7 4 (33.33%) IP Telephony
7 4 (33.33%) Wireless
7 4 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (33.33%) IronPort
7 4 (33.33%) IBM
7 4 (33.33%) CA
7 4 (33.33%) Nokia
7 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
7 4 (33.33%) CCNA
7 4 (33.33%) HP
7 4 (33.33%) CiscoWorks
7 4 (33.33%) Network Management
7 4 (33.33%) Unified Communications
7 4 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
7 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
8 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (8.333%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) BGP
2 9 (75.00%) MPLS
2 9 (75.00%) Firewall
3 7 (58.33%) VPN
4 6 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (50.00%) FWSM
5 5 (41.67%) WAN
5 5 (41.67%) IPsec
6 4 (33.33%) IP Telephony
6 4 (33.33%) Wireless
6 4 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
6 4 (33.33%) Unified Communications
6 4 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (25.00%) IPv6
7 3 (25.00%) LAN
7 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (16.67%) TACACS
8 2 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
8 2 (16.67%) ATM
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) ClearQuest
General
1 1 (8.333%) Billing
1 1 (8.333%) Military
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Network Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Senior Network Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Designer
2 3 (25.00%) IP Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Network Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.333%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (8.333%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) UNIX
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
1 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Network Management
2 3 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.333%) Integration Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (8.333%) Network Design
4 1 (8.333%) Integration Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) CCNP
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (33.33%) CCNA
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) JNCIS
4 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (8.333%) CCDP
5 1 (8.333%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Juniper
3 4 (33.33%) IronPort
3 4 (33.33%) IBM
3 4 (33.33%) CA
3 4 (33.33%) Nokia
3 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 4 (33.33%) HP
3 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 3 (25.00%) Blue Coat
5 1 (8.333%) F5
5 1 (8.333%) McAfee
Network Designer
Swindon, Wiltshire
A good understanding of WAN technologies including Ethernet. * Previous experience in IP networking and routing including OSPF, ISIS and BGP. * Previous experience of VPNs using MPLS and IPSec. *...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
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