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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank - - 33
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 0 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans - - 1.714%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 3.659%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
82 29 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 44.57% 21.80% 46.86%
Number of salaries quoted 28 8 17
Average salary £30,000 £27,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.09% -38.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,500 £39,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
OSPF
Hertfordshire

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco