The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 18 June 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 195 215 244
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +29
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 130 102 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 1.069% 0.777% 0.588%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.991% 4.873% 4.764%
Number of salaries quoted 109 95 89
Average salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £35,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £68,000 £80,000 £81,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2170 2093 1952
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 17.84% 15.93% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1934 1884 1786
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,500 £31,350
10% offered a salary of more than £70,500 £77,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
London

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OSPF across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London OSPF Salary Histogram

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 223 (92.92%) Cisco
2 192 (80.00%) BGP
3 190 (79.17%) Cisco Certification
4 161 (67.08%) MPLS
5 146 (60.83%) Firewall
6 139 (57.92%) Juniper
7 112 (46.67%) CCNP
8 111 (46.25%) CCIE
9 109 (45.42%) EIGRP
10 106 (44.17%) WAN
11 97 (40.42%) VPN
12 92 (38.33%) Wireless
13 91 (37.92%) Cisco ASA
14 68 (28.33%) Cisco Nexus
15 65 (27.08%) LAN
16 64 (26.67%) Finance
17 63 (26.25%) Ethernet
17 63 (26.25%) CCNA
18 62 (25.83%) F5
19 61 (25.42%) VMware
20 58 (24.17%) DNS
21 57 (23.75%) TCP/IP
21 57 (23.75%) CheckPoint
22 56 (23.33%) Network Design
23 55 (22.92%) Network Security
24 52 (21.67%) VLAN
25 51 (21.25%) CCIP
26 46 (19.17%) SNMP
26 46 (19.17%) FWSM
27 44 (18.33%) Cisco PIX

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 4 (1.667%) Middleware
1 4 (1.667%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 6 (2.500%) Amazon AWS
2 5 (2.083%) Apache
3 3 (1.250%) MS Exchange
4 2 (0.833%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.833%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.417%) Lync
5 1 (0.417%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.417%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 11 (4.583%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.083%) MS Office
2 5 (2.083%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 192 (80.00%) BGP
2 161 (67.08%) MPLS
3 146 (60.83%) Firewall
4 109 (45.42%) EIGRP
5 106 (44.17%) WAN
6 97 (40.42%) VPN
7 92 (38.33%) Wireless
8 91 (37.92%) Cisco ASA
9 68 (28.33%) Cisco Nexus
10 65 (27.08%) LAN
11 63 (26.25%) Ethernet
12 58 (24.17%) DNS
13 57 (23.75%) TCP/IP
14 55 (22.92%) Network Security
15 52 (21.67%) VLAN
16 46 (19.17%) FWSM
16 46 (19.17%) SNMP
17 44 (18.33%) Cisco PIX
18 38 (15.83%) Cisco IOS
19 35 (14.58%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.333%) MySQL
2 4 (1.667%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 1 (0.417%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (0.417%) Hudson
1 1 (0.417%) Jenkins
General
1 64 (26.67%) Finance
2 34 (14.17%) Telecoms
3 14 (5.833%) Law
4 11 (4.583%) Publishing
5 8 (3.333%) Banking
6 6 (2.500%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.667%) Legal
8 2 (0.833%) Games
8 2 (0.833%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.417%) Online Betting
9 1 (0.417%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.417%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 110 (45.83%) Network Engineer
2 29 (12.08%) Consultant
3 28 (11.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 25 (10.42%) Firewall Engineer
5 22 (9.167%) Cisco Engineer
6 18 (7.500%) Architect
7 16 (6.667%) Analyst
7 16 (6.667%) Support Engineer
8 14 (5.833%) Network Analyst
9 13 (5.417%) IP Engineer
10 12 (5.000%) Senior Firewall Engineer
10 12 (5.000%) Team Leader
10 12 (5.000%) Network Security Engineer
10 12 (5.000%) Cisco Consultant
10 12 (5.000%) Network Support
10 12 (5.000%) Security Engineer
10 12 (5.000%) IP Network Engineer
11 11 (4.583%) Design Engineer
12 10 (4.167%) Network Consultant
12 10 (4.167%) Cisco Support
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.167%) Video Conferencing
2 8 (3.333%) Open Source
3 7 (2.917%) Computer Science
4 5 (2.083%) IVR
4 5 (2.083%) IPTV
5 4 (1.667%) Streaming Media
5 4 (1.667%) iSeries
6 3 (1.250%) Web 2.0
7 2 (0.833%) Blackberry
7 2 (0.833%) Replication
7 2 (0.833%) SaaS
8 1 (0.417%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.417%) Online Games
8 1 (0.417%) Equities
8 1 (0.417%) Streaming Video
8 1 (0.417%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.00%) Windows
2 35 (14.58%) Linux
3 14 (5.833%) UNIX
4 13 (5.417%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (2.917%) Solaris
7 4 (1.667%) FreeBSD
7 4 (1.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.417%) CentOS
8 1 (0.417%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.417%) Fedora
8 1 (0.417%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.417%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.33%) Network Design
2 38 (15.83%) Network Management
3 20 (8.333%) Migration
4 19 (7.917%) ITIL
5 17 (7.083%) Load Balancing
6 13 (5.417%) Project Management
7 12 (5.000%) Network Architecture
8 10 (4.167%) Change Control
9 8 (3.333%) Capacity Management
9 8 (3.333%) Change Management
10 7 (2.917%) Network Load Balancing
11 5 (2.083%) Release Management
11 5 (2.083%) Configuration Management
12 4 (1.667%) PRINCE2
12 4 (1.667%) Information Security
12 4 (1.667%) SIEM
12 4 (1.667%) Enterprise Architecture
12 4 (1.667%) Project Planning
12 4 (1.667%) Root Cause Analysis
12 4 (1.667%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.583%) Python
2 10 (4.167%) Bash shell
3 8 (3.333%) Perl
4 5 (2.083%) SQL
5 4 (1.667%) PHP
5 4 (1.667%) sed
5 4 (1.667%) AWK
5 4 (1.667%) Ruby
6 3 (1.250%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 190 (79.17%) Cisco Certification
2 112 (46.67%) CCNP
3 111 (46.25%) CCIE
4 63 (26.25%) CCNA
5 51 (21.25%) CCIP
6 42 (17.50%) JNCIE
7 39 (16.25%) JNCIA
8 37 (15.42%) JNCIS
9 27 (11.25%) CCSP
10 26 (10.83%) JNCIP
11 21 (8.750%) CCVP
12 19 (7.917%) CCDP
13 18 (7.500%) Degree
14 16 (6.667%) CCSA
15 9 (3.750%) CCSE
16 8 (3.333%) CISSP
17 4 (1.667%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (1.667%) MCSE
18 3 (1.250%) MCITP
18 3 (1.250%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.67%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.500%) SLA
3 4 (1.667%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (16.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.583%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.917%) vSphere
4 6 (2.500%) VMware ESX
5 5 (2.083%) ProxySG
6 4 (1.667%) XenDesktop
7 3 (1.250%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.417%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.417%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (9.583%) FortiGate
2 20 (8.333%) Cisco UCCX
3 14 (5.833%) SolarWinds Orion
4 12 (5.000%) CiscoWorks
5 11 (4.583%) Cisco CUCM
6 10 (4.167%) Cisco UCCE
6 10 (4.167%) WhatsUp Gold
7 8 (3.333%) Nagios
7 8 (3.333%) Cacti
8 5 (2.083%) Puppet
9 4 (1.667%) Zenoss
9 4 (1.667%) ServiceCenter
9 4 (1.667%) HP Data Protector
10 3 (1.250%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.833%) WSUS
12 1 (0.417%) Munin
12 1 (0.417%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 223 (92.92%) Cisco
2 139 (57.92%) Juniper
3 62 (25.83%) F5
4 61 (25.42%) VMware
5 57 (23.75%) CheckPoint
6 39 (16.25%) HP
7 38 (15.83%) Fortinet
8 23 (9.583%) Aruba
9 20 (8.333%) Polycom
9 20 (8.333%) Sourcefire
10 18 (7.500%) Microsoft
11 14 (5.833%) Citrix
11 14 (5.833%) SolarWinds
11 14 (5.833%) Foundry
12 13 (5.417%) Twitter
13 9 (3.750%) Brocade
13 9 (3.750%) Oracle
14 8 (3.333%) Red Hat
14 8 (3.333%) Blue Coat
15 6 (2.500%) Infoblox
City of London
Network Engineer required for a Financial Services client. The Network Engineer will be the local network expert and support multiple sites within UK including 2 Colo sites. This...
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + bens
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
Our client is one of the market leading service providers in the UK managing some of the most complex customer networks within the UK by integrating a number...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
You will be a seasoned Network Engineer with detailed knowledge of Cisco IOS. It is not necessary for you to be Cisco certified but any certifications would be...
Oxbridge Answers
Salary: 75,000 - 85,000 + Bonus
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Must have: - Security, F5, Juniper and Netscreen experience. High proficiency with checkpoint firewall, juniper firewall and switches, BIG-IP and tcp/ip... Exposure to wireless and VoIP environments...
ITHR
Salary: £1600 - £1750 per week
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Desirable) Knowledge of other related products: Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, HP BladeCentre, VMware, Fortinet Fortigate, SourceFire IDS, F5 load-balancers... Professional accreditation in relevant technical disciplines - (eg, Cisco...
WorldPay
Salary: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
The People Network
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
City, London
Intergence Systems Ltd
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum including on-call and callout.
Posted: 10 June 2013
City of London
WorldPay
Salary: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 21 May 2013