The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 23 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 114 111 107
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -4
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 8 3 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.461% 0.173% 0.482%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.145% 1.163% 2.493%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 9
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% +48.93%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
193 258 361
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 11.13% 14.91% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 154 223 268
Average salary £42,500 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.86% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
South West

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OSPF across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Bristol OSPF Salary Histogram

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 20 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (95.00%) Cisco
3 18 (90.00%) VPN
3 18 (90.00%) IPsec
3 18 (90.00%) Firewall
4 15 (75.00%) Network Security
5 14 (70.00%) Juniper
6 12 (60.00%) CCNP
6 12 (60.00%) CCNA
7 11 (55.00%) CheckPoint
8 10 (50.00%) BGP
8 10 (50.00%) VoIP
9 9 (45.00%) WAN
9 9 (45.00%) CCDP
9 9 (45.00%) Network Design
9 9 (45.00%) DMVPN
10 8 (40.00%) Capacity Management
10 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (40.00%) Windows 7
10 8 (40.00%) Network Architecture
10 8 (40.00%) Network Management
10 8 (40.00%) Network Planning
10 8 (40.00%) CESG
10 8 (40.00%) Management Information System
10 8 (40.00%) Clustering
10 8 (40.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
10 8 (40.00%) Project Planning
10 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
10 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 8 (40.00%) DNS

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (30.00%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) VPN
1 18 (90.00%) IPsec
1 18 (90.00%) Firewall
2 15 (75.00%) Network Security
3 10 (50.00%) BGP
3 10 (50.00%) VoIP
4 9 (45.00%) WAN
4 9 (45.00%) DMVPN
5 8 (40.00%) DNS
5 8 (40.00%) IPv4
5 8 (40.00%) LAN
6 7 (35.00%) Internet
6 7 (35.00%) MPLS
7 6 (30.00%) BGP-4
7 6 (30.00%) SSL
7 6 (30.00%) ATM
7 6 (30.00%) Ethernet
8 5 (25.00%) PSTN
8 5 (25.00%) SDH
8 5 (25.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 7 (35.00%) Legal
2 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Administrator
3 7 (35.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 7 (35.00%) Design Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) Test Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) Systems Test Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Network Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Network Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Junior Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Design Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Network Design Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Junior
6 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) CESG
1 8 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 8 (40.00%) Clustering
2 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 8 (40.00%) Windows 7
1 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (10.00%) UNIX
4 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Network Design
2 8 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 8 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 8 (40.00%) Network Management
2 8 (40.00%) Network Planning
2 8 (40.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 8 (40.00%) Project Planning
2 8 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 6 (30.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (5.000%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.000%) Change Control
5 1 (5.000%) Service Management
5 1 (5.000%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (30.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (60.00%) CCNP
2 12 (60.00%) CCNA
3 9 (45.00%) CCDP
4 6 (30.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.000%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.000%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (30.00%) Xen
4 2 (10.00%) Squid
4 2 (10.00%) Sendmail
5 1 (5.000%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) MOM
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) Cisco
2 14 (70.00%) Juniper
3 11 (55.00%) CheckPoint
4 7 (35.00%) VMware
5 5 (25.00%) Nortel
5 5 (25.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 5 (25.00%) Siemens
5 5 (25.00%) Huawei
5 5 (25.00%) ZTE
5 5 (25.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (10.00%) Oracle
7 2 (10.00%) Citrix
7 2 (10.00%) F5
7 2 (10.00%) Infoblox