OSPF Contracts in Tyne and Wear
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 21 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 Tyne and Wear 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 24 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing OSPF 5 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 2.762% 2.439% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.63% 9.091% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
Average daily rate £301 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-9.64% +16.66%
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
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 32 88 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 17.68% 26.83% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 16
Average daily rate £300 £350 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +8.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £220 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £10.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.73% -9.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
OSPF
North East

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear OSPF Daily 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 21 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +13 5 £301 -24.87%
OSPF
North East

OSPF
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Apache
2 3 (60.00%) LDAP
2 3 (60.00%) VLAN
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (60.00%) CentOS
2 3 (60.00%) XenServer
2 3 (60.00%) HSRP
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) Nagios
3 2 (40.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
1 3 (60.00%) VLAN
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (60.00%) HSRP
1 3 (60.00%) IPsec
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
2 3 (60.00%) Network Administrator
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Network Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cisco Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
1 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) HP
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