The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 23 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 84 62 68
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +6
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 2 5 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.195% 0.787% 0.983%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.379% 6.024% 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 2
Average salary £60,000 £35,000 £45,150
Average salary % change year-on-year
+71.42% -22.48%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
145 83 128
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 14.12% 13.07% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 140 58 103
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £20,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
Oxfordshire

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 19 (100.00%) BGP
2 17 (89.47%) LAN
3 11 (57.89%) VLAN
4 10 (52.63%) ITIL
4 10 (52.63%) WAN
4 10 (52.63%) Cisco
5 9 (47.37%) Linux
5 9 (47.37%) IPsec
6 8 (42.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (42.11%) BCP
6 8 (42.11%) F5
6 8 (42.11%) Business Continuity
7 7 (36.84%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (36.84%) CCNP
7 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (31.58%) VoIP
8 6 (31.58%) MPLS
8 6 (31.58%) Juniper
8 6 (31.58%) Problem Management
9 5 (26.32%) EIGRP
10 4 (21.05%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (21.05%) Project Management
10 4 (21.05%) Network Design
10 4 (21.05%) BIG-IP
11 3 (15.79%) Riverbed
11 3 (15.79%) HP
11 3 (15.79%) WLAN
11 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
12 2 (10.53%) CCIE
12 2 (10.53%) Ethernet

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 19 (100.00%) BGP
2 17 (89.47%) LAN
3 11 (57.89%) VLAN
4 10 (52.63%) WAN
5 9 (47.37%) IPsec
6 7 (36.84%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (31.58%) VoIP
7 6 (31.58%) MPLS
8 5 (26.32%) EIGRP
9 4 (21.05%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (21.05%) BIG-IP
10 3 (15.79%) WLAN
10 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
11 2 (10.53%) Ethernet
11 2 (10.53%) SONET
11 2 (10.53%) Firewall
12 1 (5.263%) Network Security
12 1 (5.263%) IP Telephony
12 1 (5.263%) VRRP
12 1 (5.263%) RIP
General
1 2 (10.53%) Publishing
2 1 (5.263%) Multimedia
2 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Network Specialist
2 7 (36.84%) Network Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (5.263%) Engineering Manager
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) ITIL
2 8 (42.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (42.11%) BCP
2 8 (42.11%) Business Continuity
3 6 (31.58%) Problem Management
4 4 (21.05%) Project Management
4 4 (21.05%) Network Design
5 2 (10.53%) Service Management
5 2 (10.53%) Change Management
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.263%) Investment Management
6 1 (5.263%) Network Management
6 1 (5.263%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) CCNP
1 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CCIE
3 1 (5.263%) RHCE
3 1 (5.263%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.263%) CCNA
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Cisco
2 8 (42.11%) F5
3 6 (31.58%) Juniper
4 3 (15.79%) Riverbed
4 3 (15.79%) HP
5 1 (5.263%) Blue Coat
5 1 (5.263%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.263%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.263%) CheckPoint