The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 82 104 78
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -26
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 51 28 44
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 2.351% 1.237% 2.334%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.480% 4.803% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 32 26 43
Average salary £52,500 £48,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.37% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,750 £40,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,250 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
787 583 379
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.28% 25.75% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 623 463 310
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
Berkshire

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OSPF across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading OSPF Salary Histogram

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 87 (92.55%) Cisco
1 87 (92.55%) BGP
2 72 (76.60%) Cisco Certification
3 66 (70.21%) MPLS
4 56 (59.57%) CCIE
5 47 (50.00%) CCNP
6 41 (43.62%) CCIP
7 38 (40.43%) Juniper
8 37 (39.36%) TCP/IP
9 31 (32.98%) Firewall
10 23 (24.47%) JNCIA
10 23 (24.47%) JNCIP
11 22 (23.40%) IPsec
12 20 (21.28%) CCNA
13 17 (18.09%) VoIP
13 17 (18.09%) JNCIS
13 17 (18.09%) Network Design
13 17 (18.09%) Network Security
14 16 (17.02%) Telecoms
14 16 (17.02%) WAN
14 16 (17.02%) IPv6
15 15 (15.96%) VPN
15 15 (15.96%) Linux
16 14 (14.89%) Perl
16 14 (14.89%) IPv4
16 14 (14.89%) JNCIE
17 13 (13.83%) Ethernet
17 13 (13.83%) CCDP
17 13 (13.83%) Open Source
18 12 (12.77%) Load Balancing

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 Development
1 3 (3.191%) CGI
2 1 (1.064%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.255%) Apache
2 3 (3.191%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 87 (92.55%) BGP
2 66 (70.21%) MPLS
3 37 (39.36%) TCP/IP
4 31 (32.98%) Firewall
5 22 (23.40%) IPsec
6 17 (18.09%) VoIP
6 17 (18.09%) Network Security
7 16 (17.02%) WAN
7 16 (17.02%) IPv6
8 15 (15.96%) VPN
9 14 (14.89%) IPv4
10 13 (13.83%) Ethernet
11 12 (12.77%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (11.70%) EIGRP
12 11 (11.70%) DNS
13 10 (10.64%) Cisco IOS
14 9 (9.574%) DHCP
14 9 (9.574%) Broadband
15 8 (8.511%) LAN
15 8 (8.511%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.191%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.064%) Subversion
General
1 16 (17.02%) Telecoms
2 5 (5.319%) Billing
2 5 (5.319%) Retail
2 5 (5.319%) Finance
2 5 (5.319%) Back Office
3 1 (1.064%) Banking
3 1 (1.064%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (32.98%) Network Engineer
1 31 (32.98%) IP Engineer
2 17 (18.09%) IP Network Engineer
3 14 (14.89%) Team Leader
3 14 (14.89%) Network Team Leader
4 12 (12.77%) Technical Design Authority
5 11 (11.70%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) Design Engineer
7 9 (9.574%) Consultant
8 6 (6.383%) Senior Manager
8 6 (6.383%) Architect
8 6 (6.383%) Network Manager
8 6 (6.383%) Network Specialist
9 5 (5.319%) Pre Sales Consultant
9 5 (5.319%) Senior Network Manager
9 5 (5.319%) Senior Network Specialist
9 5 (5.319%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (5.319%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.319%) Sales Consultant
10 4 (4.255%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Open Source
2 4 (4.255%) Smartphone
3 2 (2.128%) SaaS
4 1 (1.064%) Web 2.0
4 1 (1.064%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.96%) Linux
2 11 (11.70%) CentOS
3 10 (10.64%) UNIX
4 4 (4.255%) Debian
5 1 (1.064%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.064%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.09%) Network Design
2 12 (12.77%) Load Balancing
3 11 (11.70%) Network Architecture
4 8 (8.511%) Performance Management
5 6 (6.383%) ITIL
6 5 (5.319%) Validation
6 5 (5.319%) PRINCE2
6 5 (5.319%) CRM
7 4 (4.255%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (4.255%) Network Management
7 4 (4.255%) Project Management
7 4 (4.255%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (3.191%) Supplier Management
9 2 (2.128%) Service Delivery
10 1 (1.064%) Agile Software Development
10 1 (1.064%) Service Management
10 1 (1.064%) Scrum
10 1 (1.064%) Migration
10 1 (1.064%) Configuration Management
10 1 (1.064%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.89%) Perl
2 11 (11.70%) Bash shell
3 5 (5.319%) SQL
4 2 (2.128%) Python
5 1 (1.064%) PHP
Qualifications
1 72 (76.60%) Cisco Certification
2 56 (59.57%) CCIE
3 47 (50.00%) CCNP
4 41 (43.62%) CCIP
5 23 (24.47%) JNCIA
5 23 (24.47%) JNCIP
6 20 (21.28%) CCNA
7 17 (18.09%) JNCIS
8 14 (14.89%) JNCIE
9 13 (13.83%) CCDP
10 5 (5.319%) Degree
11 2 (2.128%) CCDE
11 2 (2.128%) CCDA
11 2 (2.128%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (1.064%) Check Point Certification
12 1 (1.064%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.255%) PCI DSS
1 4 (4.255%) SLA
2 3 (3.191%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.191%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (3.191%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 5 (5.319%) HP NNM
1 5 (5.319%) OpenView
1 5 (5.319%) CiscoWorks
2 3 (3.191%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 87 (92.55%) Cisco
2 38 (40.43%) Juniper
3 10 (10.64%) Red Hat
3 10 (10.64%) CheckPoint
4 8 (8.511%) ZyXEL
5 6 (6.383%) Redback
6 5 (5.319%) Huawei
6 5 (5.319%) HP
6 5 (5.319%) NETGEAR
7 4 (4.255%) Twitter
7 4 (4.255%) F5
8 3 (3.191%) BT
8 3 (3.191%) Draytek
9 2 (2.128%) Foundry
9 2 (2.128%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.064%) Websense
10 1 (1.064%) Dell
10 1 (1.064%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.064%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.064%) Aruba
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