The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 24 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 185 164 158
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -6
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 7 9 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.171% 0.248% 0.303%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.211% 1.515% 2.206%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 12
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +40.74%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
578 594 544
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.11% 16.39% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 486 524 477
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £75,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
North West

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (93.33%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (93.33%) MPLS
2 14 (93.33%) BGP
3 13 (86.67%) Firewall
4 10 (66.67%) CCIE
4 10 (66.67%) CCNP
5 9 (60.00%) RIP
6 8 (53.33%) CCSP
7 7 (46.67%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (40.00%) WAN
9 5 (33.33%) VPN
9 5 (33.33%) Juniper
9 5 (33.33%) CCNA
9 5 (33.33%) EIGRP
9 5 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
9 5 (33.33%) Network Security
9 5 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (26.67%) F5
10 4 (26.67%) FWSM
10 4 (26.67%) CCDE
10 4 (26.67%) Network Design
10 4 (26.67%) Wireless
10 4 (26.67%) CCDP
10 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
10 4 (26.67%) CCIP
11 3 (20.00%) Ethernet
11 3 (20.00%) VoIP
11 3 (20.00%) Redback
11 3 (20.00%) Telecoms

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) IIS
1 1 (6.667%) Apache
1 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
1 1 (6.667%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) MPLS
1 14 (93.33%) BGP
2 13 (86.67%) Firewall
3 9 (60.00%) RIP
4 7 (46.67%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (40.00%) WAN
6 5 (33.33%) VPN
6 5 (33.33%) EIGRP
6 5 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
6 5 (33.33%) Network Security
6 5 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (26.67%) FWSM
7 4 (26.67%) Wireless
8 3 (20.00%) Ethernet
8 3 (20.00%) VoIP
8 3 (20.00%) IPv6
9 2 (13.33%) VLAN
9 2 (13.33%) LAN
9 2 (13.33%) DNS
10 1 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) MySQL
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) Legal
2 1 (6.667%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Data Centre Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Data Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (20.00%) IP Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior IP Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
1 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Network Design
2 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (66.67%) CCIE
2 10 (66.67%) CCNP
3 8 (53.33%) CCSP
4 5 (33.33%) CCNA
5 4 (26.67%) CCDE
5 4 (26.67%) CCDP
5 4 (26.67%) CCIP
6 1 (6.667%) HP ASE
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.667%) Xen
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Juniper
3 4 (26.67%) F5
3 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
4 3 (20.00%) Redback
5 2 (13.33%) HP
6 1 (6.667%) Dell
6 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.667%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.667%) ProCurve
6 1 (6.667%) VMware