The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 20 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 Docklands, London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 28 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 4 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 2.128% 1.413% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.405% 4.938% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 0
Average salary £67,500 £28,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+141.07% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Docklands, London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
74 81 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 39.36% 28.62% 8.292%
Number of salaries quoted 62 74 27
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £44,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% +1.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £79,500 £68,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
OSPF
London

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OSPF across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Docklands, London OSPF Salary Histogram

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, 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 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 5 (71.43%) Network Security
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (57.14%) CCNP
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco PIX
4 4 (57.14%) FWSM
5 3 (42.86%) Juniper
5 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
5 3 (42.86%) CCSP
5 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
5 3 (42.86%) CCSE
6 2 (28.57%) MPLS
6 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
6 2 (28.57%) DNS
6 2 (28.57%) CCIE
6 2 (28.57%) Linux
6 2 (28.57%) WAN
6 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
7 1 (14.29%) VPN
7 1 (14.29%) Perl
7 1 (14.29%) PHP
7 1 (14.29%) MySQL
7 1 (14.29%) Python
7 1 (14.29%) FreeBSD
7 1 (14.29%) ObjectStore
7 1 (14.29%) LAN

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, 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 1 (14.29%) LAMP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) Network Security
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco PIX
4 4 (57.14%) FWSM
5 2 (28.57%) MPLS
5 2 (28.57%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) WAN
5 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (14.29%) VPN
6 1 (14.29%) LAN
6 1 (14.29%) SDH
6 1 (14.29%) Internet
6 1 (14.29%) DWDM
6 1 (14.29%) NetScreen
6 1 (14.29%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) ObjectStore
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Equities
1 1 (14.29%) Streaming Media
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
1 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Release Management
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Change Control
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) AWK
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby
1 1 (14.29%) Bash shell
1 1 (14.29%) sed
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (57.14%) CCNP
3 3 (42.86%) CCSP
3 3 (42.86%) CCSE
4 2 (28.57%) CCIE
5 1 (14.29%) JNCIE
5 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Nagios
1 1 (14.29%) Cacti
1 1 (14.29%) Zenoss
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Juniper
2 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
2 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Brocade
3 1 (14.29%) Sun