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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 149 139 154
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +15
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 4 16 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.127% 0.463% 0.144%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.971% 3.048% 1.082%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 5
Average salary £35,000 £55,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.36% +57.14%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
412 525 462
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.09% 15.20% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 217 339 324
Average salary £41,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,000 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £45,700 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
UK

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland OSPF Salary Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Aberdeen +5 3 £35,000 -36.36%
Edinburgh +6 1 £35,000 -
OSPF
UK

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 16 (88.89%) WAN
1 16 (88.89%) Firewall
2 15 (83.33%) Wireless
3 13 (72.22%) EIGRP
4 11 (61.11%) BGP
4 11 (61.11%) Network Design
4 11 (61.11%) VPN
4 11 (61.11%) Cisco
4 11 (61.11%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (61.11%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (55.56%) LAN
6 9 (50.00%) SNMP
6 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
7 7 (38.89%) DNS
7 7 (38.89%) CCIE
7 7 (38.89%) FWSM
8 6 (33.33%) CCSP
8 6 (33.33%) CCNP
8 6 (33.33%) CCIP
8 6 (33.33%) Internet
8 6 (33.33%) CCDP
8 6 (33.33%) DHCP
8 6 (33.33%) Windows
8 6 (33.33%) MPLS
8 6 (33.33%) CCVP
9 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity
9 5 (27.78%) BCP
9 5 (27.78%) BGP-4
9 5 (27.78%) Project Management
9 5 (27.78%) IPsec

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (5.556%) HTML
1 1 (5.556%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) WAN
1 16 (88.89%) Firewall
2 15 (83.33%) Wireless
3 13 (72.22%) EIGRP
4 11 (61.11%) BGP
4 11 (61.11%) VPN
4 11 (61.11%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (55.56%) LAN
6 9 (50.00%) SNMP
6 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
7 7 (38.89%) DNS
7 7 (38.89%) FWSM
8 6 (33.33%) Internet
8 6 (33.33%) DHCP
8 6 (33.33%) MPLS
9 5 (27.78%) BGP-4
9 5 (27.78%) IPsec
9 5 (27.78%) IPv4
9 5 (27.78%) IPv6
9 5 (27.78%) IKE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) Informix
1 1 (5.556%) MySQL
1 1 (5.556%) SQLite
1 1 (5.556%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Consultant
1 8 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Data Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Network Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Replication
1 1 (5.556%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.556%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (5.556%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Network Design
2 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity
2 5 (27.78%) BCP
2 5 (27.78%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Network Management
2 5 (27.78%) Network Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.556%) TOGAF
4 1 (5.556%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.556%) Fault Management
4 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) C#
1 1 (5.556%) C++
1 1 (5.556%) Java
1 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.556%) Perl
1 1 (5.556%) PHP
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
1 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
1 1 (5.556%) Korn
1 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (38.89%) CCIE
3 6 (33.33%) CCSP
3 6 (33.33%) CCNP
3 6 (33.33%) CCIP
3 6 (33.33%) CCDP
3 6 (33.33%) CCVP
4 4 (22.22%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Xen
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Cisco