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This section looks at the demand for Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkOpen Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank322291
Rank change on same period last yearDown-31
Matching permanent IT job ads9691391
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.512 %0.570 %
As % of the category below3.091 %3.681 %
Salaries quoted8591177
Average minimum salary£46,301£45,781
Average salary£49,764£48,619
% change on same period last year+2.35 %
Average maximum salary£53,226£51,457
UK excluding London average salary£42,005£44,399
% change on same period last year-5.39 %
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
England
Matching permanent IT job ads3135237785
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled16.55 %15.47 %
Salaries quoted2678230618
Average minimum salary£37,564£39,261
Average salary£40,446£42,249
% change on same period last year-4.26 %
Average maximum salary£43,327£45,236
UK excluding London average salary£37,397£39,734
% change on same period last year-5.88 %
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OSPF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing OSPF across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England OSPF Demand Trend

OSPF
Salary Trend

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

England OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OSPF across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

England OSPF Salary Histogram

OSPF
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonDown-7621£55,057+7.86 %
South EastDown-11184£43,378-4.23 %
YorkshireDown-1439£39,321-4.63 %
North WestUp+1933£35,167-16.11 %
South WestUp+2431£34,557+7.99 %
West MidlandsDown-1925£38,393-13.90 %
East of EnglandDown-4425£40,125-9.89 %
East MidlandsUp+138£35,071-1.48 %
MidlandsUp+131£60,000+39.80 %
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

11662 (85.19 %)Cisco
21648 (84.47 %)BGP
31385 (70.99 %)Cisco Certification
41036 (53.10 %)MPLS
5997 (51.10 %)CCNP
6923 (47.31 %)WAN
7790 (40.49 %)LAN
8741 (37.98 %)Firewall
9684 (35.06 %)VPN
10672 (34.44 %)EIGRP
11619 (31.73 %)CCIE
12539 (27.63 %)TCP/IP
12539 (27.63 %)VoIP
13519 (26.60 %)CCIP
14450 (23.07 %)Finance
15422 (21.63 %)CheckPoint
15422 (21.63 %)RIP
16399 (20.45 %)CCNA
17384 (19.68 %)Juniper
18336 (17.22 %)Telecoms
19334 (17.12 %)Ethernet
20291 (14.92 %)Network Design
21289 (14.81 %)ATM
22276 (14.15 %)Frame Relay
23275 (14.10 %)IPsec
24264 (13.53 %)Internet
25261 (13.38 %)CCDP
26232 (11.89 %)DNS
27222 (11.38 %)UNIX
28221 (11.33 %)Linux

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
150 (2.563 %)CSS
216 (0.820 %)FIX Protocol
39 (0.461 %)HTML
39 (0.461 %)Middleware
48 (0.410 %)XML
55 (0.256 %)CORBA
63 (0.154 %)MFC
63 (0.154 %)MAPI
72 (0.103 %)EDI
81 (0.051 %)OLE
81 (0.051 %)WebSphere
81 (0.051 %)Application Packaging
81 (0.051 %)ColdSpring
England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
131 (1.589 %)MS Exchange
221 (1.076 %)Apache
314 (0.718 %)Exchange Server 2003
49 (0.461 %)IIS
54 (0.205 %)JBoss
54 (0.205 %)Tomcat
63 (0.154 %)MTS
72 (0.103 %)Exchange Server 2000
72 (0.103 %)CMS
81 (0.051 %)Exchange Server 5.5
81 (0.051 %)WebSphere MQ
81 (0.051 %)Exchange Server 2007
81 (0.051 %)SharePoint
81 (0.051 %)Lotus Notes
81 (0.051 %)Lotus Domino
England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
135 (1.794 %)MS Excel
214 (0.718 %)MS Visio
312 (0.615 %)MS Office
43 (0.154 %)Spreadsheet
51 (0.051 %)MS PowerPoint
England IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
11 (0.051 %)Summit
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11648 (84.47 %)BGP
21036 (53.10 %)MPLS
3923 (47.31 %)WAN
4790 (40.49 %)LAN
5741 (37.98 %)Firewall
6684 (35.06 %)VPN
7672 (34.44 %)EIGRP
8539 (27.63 %)TCP/IP
8539 (27.63 %)VoIP
9422 (21.63 %)RIP
10334 (17.12 %)Ethernet
11289 (14.81 %)ATM
12276 (14.15 %)Frame Relay
13275 (14.10 %)IPsec
14264 (13.53 %)Internet
15232 (11.89 %)DNS
16188 (9.636 %)Cisco PIX
17185 (9.482 %)Network Security
18184 (9.431 %)Cisco IOS
19178 (9.124 %)ISDN
England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
128 (1.435 %)MySQL
213 (0.666 %)SQL Server
34 (0.205 %)PostgreSQL
41 (0.051 %)RDBMS
England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
13 (0.154 %)Visual Studio
22 (0.103 %)Subversion
31 (0.051 %)Synon
England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1450 (23.07 %)Finance
2336 (17.22 %)Telecoms
3145 (7.432 %)Banking
455 (2.819 %)Education
553 (2.717 %)Financial Institution
639 (1.999 %)Pensions
736 (1.845 %)Health
835 (1.794 %)Insurance
930 (1.538 %)Government
1020 (1.025 %)Investment Banking
1113 (0.666 %)Multimedia
1210 (0.513 %)Billing
139 (0.461 %)Electronics
148 (0.410 %)Construction
148 (0.410 %)Legal
156 (0.308 %)Advertising
156 (0.308 %)Law
156 (0.308 %)Marketing
165 (0.256 %)Military
165 (0.256 %)Back Office
England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1843 (43.21 %)Network Engineer
2295 (15.12 %)Cisco Engineer
3198 (10.15 %)Support Engineer
4182 (9.329 %)Network Support
5148 (7.586 %)Architect
6142 (7.278 %)Design Engineer
6142 (7.278 %)Cisco Network Engineer
7127 (6.509 %)Senior Network Engineer
8123 (6.304 %)Network Support Engineer
9107 (5.484 %)Network Architect
10104 (5.331 %)Analyst
1193 (4.767 %)Consultant
1282 (4.203 %)Network Analyst
1373 (3.742 %)Network Design Engineer
1472 (3.690 %)Network Specialist
1570 (3.588 %)Cisco Support
1647 (2.409 %)Network Consultant
1744 (2.255 %)Network Manager
1841 (2.101 %)NOC Engineer
1940 (2.050 %)IP Network Engineer
England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
127 (1.384 %)PKI
127 (1.384 %)IPTV
213 (0.666 %)Derivative
213 (0.666 %)Spanish Language
213 (0.666 %)Fat Client
213 (0.666 %)Thin Client
311 (0.564 %)French Language
410 (0.513 %)Computer Science
410 (0.513 %)Video Conferencing
56 (0.308 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
56 (0.308 %)Device Driver
65 (0.256 %)Clustering
65 (0.256 %)Firmware
65 (0.256 %)German Language
74 (0.205 %)Mathematics
74 (0.205 %)Physics
74 (0.205 %)e-Health
83 (0.154 %)Mainframe
83 (0.154 %)Management Information System
83 (0.154 %)Cryptography
England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1222 (11.38 %)UNIX
2221 (11.33 %)Linux
3147 (7.535 %)Windows
471 (3.639 %)Solaris
545 (2.307 %)Windows Server 2003
616 (0.820 %)Windows NT
715 (0.769 %)Debian
810 (0.513 %)FreeBSD
95 (0.256 %)Gentoo
104 (0.205 %)Windows 2000
112 (0.103 %)SUSE
121 (0.051 %)OpenBSD
121 (0.051 %)NetBSD
121 (0.051 %)HPUX
121 (0.051 %)Windows XP
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1291 (14.92 %)Network Design
2107 (5.484 %)Load Balancing
363 (3.229 %)Project Management
454 (2.768 %)E-Commerce
537 (1.896 %)B2B
631 (1.589 %)Security Cleared
725 (1.281 %)Disaster Recovery
824 (1.230 %)ITIL
824 (1.230 %)Problem Management
921 (1.076 %)Migration
1017 (0.871 %)Fault Management
1116 (0.820 %)SC Cleared
1116 (0.820 %)Validation
1215 (0.769 %)Incident Management
1314 (0.718 %)Service Delivery
1412 (0.615 %)Change Management
1412 (0.615 %)Business Continuity
1511 (0.564 %)Time Management
1610 (0.513 %)Network Planning
1610 (0.513 %)Configuration Management
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
149 (2.512 %)Perl
224 (1.230 %)C
323 (1.179 %)SQL
418 (0.923 %)Shell Script
514 (0.718 %)PHP
610 (0.513 %)Assembly Language
76 (0.308 %)Embedded C
85 (0.256 %)VB
85 (0.256 %)C++
94 (0.205 %)JCL
103 (0.154 %)Ruby
103 (0.154 %)Python
111 (0.051 %)Tcl
111 (0.051 %)Java
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11385 (70.99 %)Cisco Certification
2997 (51.10 %)CCNP
3619 (31.73 %)CCIE
4519 (26.60 %)CCIP
5399 (20.45 %)CCNA
6261 (13.38 %)CCDP
7154 (7.893 %)CCSP
8101 (5.177 %)CCSE
999 (5.074 %)CCVP
1078 (3.998 %)CCSA
1173 (3.742 %)JNCIS
1265 (3.332 %)Degree
1363 (3.229 %)CCDA
1454 (2.768 %)JNCIA
1537 (1.896 %)MBA
1632 (1.640 %)JNCIE
1728 (1.435 %)JNCIP
1821 (1.076 %)Microsoft Certification
1915 (0.769 %)MCSE
2011 (0.564 %)Check Point Certification
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1100 (5.126 %)SLA
247 (2.409 %)QA
36 (0.308 %)ISO9001
42 (0.103 %)ISO17799
England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
127 (1.384 %)Active Directory
27 (0.359 %)Terminal Server
27 (0.359 %)Terminal Services
36 (0.308 %)ISA Server
36 (0.308 %)NetBackup
45 (0.256 %)Squid
54 (0.205 %)Snort
62 (0.103 %)VMware Infrastructure
71 (0.051 %)NFS
England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
187 (4.459 %)CiscoWorks
239 (1.999 %)OpenView
319 (0.974 %)Netcool
410 (0.513 %)Nagios
57 (0.359 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
65 (0.256 %)BMC PATROL
65 (0.256 %)MOM
73 (0.154 %)Nessus
73 (0.154 %)NNM
82 (0.103 %)Netcool/Proviso
91 (0.051 %)Tivoli
91 (0.051 %)Tivoli NetView
91 (0.051 %)MIMEsweeper
91 (0.051 %)MAILsweeper
England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11662 (85.19 %)Cisco
2422 (21.63 %)CheckPoint
3384 (19.68 %)Juniper
4166 (8.508 %)Nokia
588 (4.511 %)Nortel
686 (4.408 %)Microsoft
761 (3.127 %)Redback
855 (2.819 %)HP
933 (1.691 %)Avaya
1032 (1.640 %)Red Hat
1131 (1.589 %)Lucent
1229 (1.486 %)Remedy
1327 (1.384 %)VMware
1426 (1.333 %)Blue Coat
1523 (1.179 %)Alcatel
1618 (0.923 %)Citrix
1716 (0.820 %)Huawei
1814 (0.718 %)Sun
1814 (0.718 %)IBM
1912 (0.615 %)SonicWALL
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