The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 21 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 33 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 33 12 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 4.790% 1.371% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.76% 10.91% -
Number of salaries quoted 31 7 0
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
167 110 140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 24.24% 12.57% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 149 94 121
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £24,000 £23,100
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
England

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OSPF across the North East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North East OSPF Salary Histogram

OSPF
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the North East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear +11 31 £40,000 -11.11%
Durham - 2 £32,500 -
OSPF
England

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 36 (97.30%) Cisco
2 28 (75.68%) Linux
2 28 (75.68%) Disaster Recovery
3 27 (72.97%) HP
4 23 (62.16%) BGP
5 22 (59.46%) Firewall
6 21 (56.76%) Degree
7 20 (54.05%) Wireless
7 20 (54.05%) Nagios
7 20 (54.05%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (51.35%) CCNP
8 19 (51.35%) Internet
8 19 (51.35%) VLAN
9 18 (48.65%) Telecoms
9 18 (48.65%) DNS
10 17 (45.95%) Red Hat
10 17 (45.95%) Apache
10 17 (45.95%) MySQL
10 17 (45.95%) DHCP
10 17 (45.95%) CentOS
11 16 (43.24%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (43.24%) HSRP
11 16 (43.24%) LDAP
12 13 (35.14%) RHCE
13 9 (24.32%) XenServer
13 9 (24.32%) Citrix
14 8 (21.62%) SAN
14 8 (21.62%) VPN
15 7 (18.92%) MS Visio
15 7 (18.92%) Validation

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 17 (45.95%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (18.92%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.405%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (62.16%) BGP
2 22 (59.46%) Firewall
3 20 (54.05%) Wireless
4 19 (51.35%) Internet
4 19 (51.35%) VLAN
5 18 (48.65%) DNS
6 17 (45.95%) DHCP
7 16 (43.24%) Cisco ASA
7 16 (43.24%) HSRP
7 16 (43.24%) LDAP
8 8 (21.62%) SAN
8 8 (21.62%) VPN
9 7 (18.92%) IPsec
10 4 (10.81%) LAN
10 4 (10.81%) WAN
11 2 (5.405%) EIGRP
11 2 (5.405%) MPLS
11 2 (5.405%) IPv4
12 1 (2.703%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (2.703%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) MySQL
General
1 18 (48.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (72.97%) Administrator
2 14 (37.84%) Network Administrator
2 14 (37.84%) Linux Administrator
3 13 (35.14%) Senior Network Administrator
4 12 (32.43%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 5 (13.51%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (10.81%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (10.81%) Network Technician
7 3 (8.108%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 3 (8.108%) Network Engineer
8 2 (5.405%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
9 1 (2.703%) Network Design Specialist
9 1 (2.703%) Wireless Engineer
9 1 (2.703%) Network Specialist
9 1 (2.703%) Cisco Administrator
9 1 (2.703%) Network Design Engineer
9 1 (2.703%) Senior Network Engineer
9 1 (2.703%) Design Engineer
Operating Systems
1 28 (75.68%) Linux
2 17 (45.95%) CentOS
3 2 (5.405%) Windows
3 2 (5.405%) Windows XP
3 2 (5.405%) Windows Vista
3 2 (5.405%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.703%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (18.92%) Validation
2 7 (18.92%) Identity Management
3 5 (13.51%) Network Design
3 5 (13.51%) Change Control
4 4 (10.81%) Data Management
5 2 (5.405%) Time Management
6 1 (2.703%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (2.703%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Degree
2 20 (54.05%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (51.35%) CCNP
4 13 (35.14%) RHCE
5 5 (13.51%) CCNA
6 1 (2.703%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.703%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) XenServer
2 1 (2.703%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.703%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (54.05%) Nagios
Vendors
1 36 (97.30%) Cisco
2 27 (72.97%) HP
3 17 (45.95%) Red Hat
4 9 (24.32%) Citrix
5 4 (10.81%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.405%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.703%) VMware
7 1 (2.703%) Juniper