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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank - 19 -
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Torfaen - 1.695% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 5.556% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £36,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Torfaen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
11 18 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Torfaen 24.44% 30.51% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11 18 6
Average salary £48,000 £36,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% +10.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
South Wales

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Torfaen 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 Torfaen region.

Torfaen OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Torfaen 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 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) ISDN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Nokia
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) IGRP
1 2 (100.00%) PPTP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Torfaen 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 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) ISDN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) IGRP
1 2 (100.00%) PPTP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Nokia
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint