The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 54 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 27 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.885% 0.483% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.47% 2.069% -
Number of salaries quoted 20 2 0
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
258 145 127
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 37.12% 23.35% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 177 108 75
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,300 £23,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £57,500 £59,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
Hampshire

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke OSPF Jobs Demand Trend

OSPF
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OSPF across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OSPF.

1 44 (93.62%) Cisco
2 41 (87.23%) TCP/IP
3 40 (85.11%) BGP
3 40 (85.11%) MPLS
4 34 (72.34%) Juniper
4 34 (72.34%) Ethernet
5 30 (63.83%) Telecoms
6 28 (59.57%) HSRP
7 27 (57.45%) VLAN
8 24 (51.06%) Internet
9 23 (48.94%) IPv6
9 23 (48.94%) VPLS
10 19 (40.43%) SDH
10 19 (40.43%) SONET
11 17 (36.17%) CheckPoint
12 16 (34.04%) EIGRP
12 16 (34.04%) RSVP
13 14 (29.79%) VPN
13 14 (29.79%) SSL
13 14 (29.79%) F5
14 13 (27.66%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (25.53%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (25.53%) CCNP
15 12 (25.53%) WAN
16 11 (23.40%) LAN
16 11 (23.40%) Network Management
16 11 (23.40%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (23.40%) Infoblox
16 11 (23.40%) Imperva
16 11 (23.40%) Blue Coat

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OSPF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.383%) CORBA
1 3 (6.383%) SOAP
2 1 (2.128%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.128%) IIS
1 1 (2.128%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.128%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 41 (87.23%) TCP/IP
2 40 (85.11%) BGP
2 40 (85.11%) MPLS
3 34 (72.34%) Ethernet
4 28 (59.57%) HSRP
5 27 (57.45%) VLAN
6 24 (51.06%) Internet
7 23 (48.94%) IPv6
7 23 (48.94%) VPLS
8 19 (40.43%) SDH
8 19 (40.43%) SONET
9 16 (34.04%) EIGRP
9 16 (34.04%) RSVP
10 14 (29.79%) VPN
10 14 (29.79%) SSL
11 13 (27.66%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (25.53%) WAN
13 11 (23.40%) LAN
13 11 (23.40%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (23.40%) Gigabit Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.128%) SQL Server
General
1 30 (63.83%) Telecoms
2 4 (8.511%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.255%) Banking
3 2 (4.255%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (51.06%) Network Engineer
2 12 (25.53%) Support Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) IP Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Network Support Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Network Support
4 7 (14.89%) Provisioning Engineer
5 3 (6.383%) Instructor
5 3 (6.383%) Technical Instructor
5 3 (6.383%) Network Specialist
5 3 (6.383%) Implementation Specialist
6 2 (4.255%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 2 (4.255%) IP Network Engineer
6 2 (4.255%) Network Design Engineer
6 2 (4.255%) Implementation Engineer
6 2 (4.255%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (4.255%) Design Engineer
6 2 (4.255%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (2.128%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.128%) Wintel Support
7 1 (2.128%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.511%) SaaS
2 2 (4.255%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.128%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Linux
2 4 (8.511%) Solaris
3 1 (2.128%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.128%) Windows
3 1 (2.128%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.128%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.128%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.40%) Network Management
2 7 (14.89%) Network Design
2 7 (14.89%) Load Balancing
3 6 (12.77%) Service Delivery
4 4 (8.511%) Migration
4 4 (8.511%) ERP
4 4 (8.511%) Change Management
5 3 (6.383%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.128%) Project Management
6 1 (2.128%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (2.128%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (25.53%) CCNP
2 5 (10.64%) CCIP
3 4 (8.511%) CCNA
4 2 (4.255%) CCVP
4 2 (4.255%) CCDP
4 2 (4.255%) CCIE
4 2 (4.255%) CCSP
5 1 (2.128%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) ProxySG
2 1 (2.128%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.128%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 44 (93.62%) Cisco
2 34 (72.34%) Juniper
3 17 (36.17%) CheckPoint
4 14 (29.79%) F5
5 11 (23.40%) Infoblox
5 11 (23.40%) Imperva
5 11 (23.40%) Blue Coat
6 8 (17.02%) BT
7 7 (14.89%) Huawei
8 5 (10.64%) McAfee
9 3 (6.383%) Websense
9 3 (6.383%) Nokia
9 3 (6.383%) Oracle
9 3 (6.383%) Sybase
9 3 (6.383%) Avaya
9 3 (6.383%) Riverbed
10 1 (2.128%) IBM
10 1 (2.128%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.128%) VMware