The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gatwick region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 19 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 Gatwick region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 18 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 3 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gatwick 3.000% 2.174% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.824% 50.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 0
Average salary £30,000 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Gatwick
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
34 10 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gatwick 34.00% 4.348% 25.54%
Number of salaries quoted 26 9 41
Average salary £34,500 £45,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.33% +34.32%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £45,000 £31,750
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £65,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
West Sussex

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gatwick 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 Gatwick region.

Gatwick OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Gatwick 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%) ITIL
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (85.71%) Wireless Security
2 6 (85.71%) tcpdump
2 6 (85.71%) Junos
2 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Juniper
2 6 (85.71%) CheckPoint
2 6 (85.71%) WLAN
2 6 (85.71%) Service Delivery
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) Wireless
2 6 (85.71%) IPsec
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) SSL
2 6 (85.71%) SMTP
2 6 (85.71%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) HTTP
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) ISDN
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (71.43%) Active Directory

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Gatwick 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 7 (100.00%) WAN
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (85.71%) Wireless Security
2 6 (85.71%) tcpdump
2 6 (85.71%) Junos
2 6 (85.71%) WLAN
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) Wireless
2 6 (85.71%) IPsec
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) SSL
2 6 (85.71%) SMTP
2 6 (85.71%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) HTTP
3 5 (71.43%) ISDN
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Network Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Security Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Network Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) IVR
1 5 (71.43%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) ITIL
2 6 (85.71%) Service Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (71.43%) Performance Management
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) Hyper-V
1 5 (71.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Juniper
2 6 (85.71%) CheckPoint
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (71.43%) Nortel
3 5 (71.43%) Avaya
3 5 (71.43%) CA
3 5 (71.43%) Verint