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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 69 73 71
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -2
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 3 8 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.420% 0.850% 0.472%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.778% 4.396% 3.333%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 4
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
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
108 182 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 15.13% 19.34% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 90 145 99
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -10.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,550 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £76,000 £67,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
Yorkshire

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Sheffield +2 3 £100,000 +185.71%
OSPF
Yorkshire

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) SLA
2 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) VoIP
4 1 (25.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) SNMP
4 1 (25.00%) CCNA
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Nortel
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (25.00%) L2TP
4 1 (25.00%) VRRP
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (75.00%) MPLS
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) VoIP
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) L2TP
3 1 (25.00%) VRRP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) MRTG
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Nortel
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Trend Micro