The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 17 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank - 85 87
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 0 17 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - 1.383% 0.361%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 6.667% 2.020%
Number of salaries quoted 0 16 4
Average salary - £42,500 £31,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +33.85%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
276 255 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 31.29% 20.75% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 231 189 165
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,700 £26,200
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £48,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
OSPF
South West

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Fault Management
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Support
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Fault Management
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco