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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 127 147 141
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -6
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 12 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.467% 0.139% 0.134%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.685% 0.762% 0.636%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 4
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +22.03%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
447 525 629
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 17.41% 18.25% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 356 445 542
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
East of England

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the Cambridgeshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge - 11 £37,500 -
Peterborough -2 1 £30,000 -25.00%
OSPF
East of England

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (87.50%) WAN
2 14 (87.50%) LAN
2 14 (87.50%) PCI DSS
3 13 (81.25%) VPN
4 11 (68.75%) IPsec
5 10 (62.50%) VLAN
5 10 (62.50%) VoIP
5 10 (62.50%) SNMP
5 10 (62.50%) HSRP
6 9 (56.25%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (50.00%) Cacti
7 8 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
7 8 (50.00%) Nagios
8 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (37.50%) BGP
8 6 (37.50%) CCNP
9 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
9 5 (31.25%) Juniper
9 5 (31.25%) Network Security
10 4 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 4 (25.00%) Information Security
10 4 (25.00%) PKI
10 4 (25.00%) CISSP
10 4 (25.00%) Change Management
10 4 (25.00%) Firewall
10 4 (25.00%) SIEM
11 3 (18.75%) DMVPN

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) WAN
1 14 (87.50%) LAN
2 13 (81.25%) VPN
3 11 (68.75%) IPsec
4 10 (62.50%) VLAN
4 10 (62.50%) VoIP
4 10 (62.50%) SNMP
4 10 (62.50%) HSRP
5 6 (37.50%) BGP
6 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
6 5 (31.25%) Network Security
7 4 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (25.00%) Firewall
8 3 (18.75%) DMVPN
8 3 (18.75%) SMTP
8 3 (18.75%) FTP
8 3 (18.75%) HTTP
8 3 (18.75%) SSL
9 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (12.50%) MPLS
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Security Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Network Security Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Network Specialist
3 1 (6.250%) Architect
3 1 (6.250%) Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Network Security Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Design Authority
3 1 (6.250%) Network Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Security Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Information Security
1 4 (25.00%) Change Management
1 4 (25.00%) SIEM
2 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
3 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.250%) Project Management
4 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.250%) Security Architecture
4 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (37.50%) CCNP
2 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (6.250%) CCIE
3 1 (6.250%) CCIP
3 1 (6.250%) CCDP
3 1 (6.250%) JNCIA
3 1 (6.250%) JNCIS
3 1 (6.250%) JNCIP
3 1 (6.250%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (87.50%) PCI DSS
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco CUCM
2 8 (50.00%) Cacti
2 8 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
2 8 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Juniper
3 3 (18.75%) Blue Coat
3 3 (18.75%) IronPort
4 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.250%) HP
5 1 (6.250%) ProCurve
5 1 (6.250%) Twitter
5 1 (6.250%) F5
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Our client, a major media and communications company are looking for a Network Security Specialist with experience of Cisco, Juniper/Checkpoint to work within a 2nd/3rd line...
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Posted: 20 May 2013