The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 20 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 53 58 57
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -1
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 3 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.577% 0.974% 0.867%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.896% 5.882% 5.682%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 5
Average salary £100,000 £35,000 £67,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+185.71% -47.76%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
77 102 88
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 14.81% 16.56% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 70 97 70
Average salary £37,500 £33,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.63% -22.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,300 £22,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £67,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
OSPF
South Yorkshire

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 4 (80.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) SLA
3 3 (60.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Juniper
4 2 (40.00%) CCNP
4 2 (40.00%) VRRP
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (20.00%) Trend Micro
5 1 (20.00%) MRTG
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
5 1 (20.00%) L2TP
5 1 (20.00%) Network Design
5 1 (20.00%) CCNA
5 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (20.00%) Nortel
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (20.00%) Internet

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 4 (80.00%) MPLS
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) VRRP
4 1 (20.00%) Internet
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (20.00%) MRTG
4 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) L2TP
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) VoIP
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) SNMP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Trend Micro
3 1 (20.00%) Nortel