The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 21 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 West Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 101 93 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 13 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.859% 0.719% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.869% 5.128% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 0
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
West Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
336 195 284
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 22.21% 14.03% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 283 177 247
Average salary £42,500 £39,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.59% +12.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £24,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
South East

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 21 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
Crawley +3 13 £42,500 -5.55%
Gatwick +17 3 - -
OSPF
South East

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 38 (100.00%) Linux
1 38 (100.00%) SMTP
1 38 (100.00%) DHCP
1 38 (100.00%) HTTP
1 38 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 38 (100.00%) DNS
1 38 (100.00%) Cisco
1 38 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 38 (100.00%) BGP
1 38 (100.00%) EIGRP
2 36 (94.74%) Cisco ASA
2 36 (94.74%) Firewall
2 36 (94.74%) IPsec
2 36 (94.74%) SSL
2 36 (94.74%) LAN
2 36 (94.74%) WLAN
2 36 (94.74%) VPN
3 31 (81.58%) PCI DSS
3 31 (81.58%) tcpdump
3 31 (81.58%) Juniper
4 30 (78.95%) Junos
5 29 (76.32%) WAN
6 25 (65.79%) Wireless
7 23 (60.53%) ITIL
7 23 (60.53%) Network Security
8 22 (57.89%) Service Delivery
9 20 (52.63%) Wireless Security
10 19 (50.00%) Performance Management
11 15 (39.47%) SecurID
11 15 (39.47%) Cisco IPCC

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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.

Applications
1 1 (2.632%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 38 (100.00%) SMTP
1 38 (100.00%) DHCP
1 38 (100.00%) HTTP
1 38 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 38 (100.00%) DNS
1 38 (100.00%) BGP
1 38 (100.00%) EIGRP
2 36 (94.74%) Cisco ASA
2 36 (94.74%) Firewall
2 36 (94.74%) IPsec
2 36 (94.74%) SSL
2 36 (94.74%) LAN
2 36 (94.74%) WLAN
2 36 (94.74%) VPN
3 31 (81.58%) tcpdump
4 30 (78.95%) Junos
5 29 (76.32%) WAN
6 25 (65.79%) Wireless
7 23 (60.53%) Network Security
8 20 (52.63%) Wireless Security
Job Titles
1 38 (100.00%) Analyst
1 38 (100.00%) Network Analyst
2 34 (89.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 34 (89.47%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
3 12 (31.58%) Network Security Analyst
3 12 (31.58%) Security Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Network Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Auditor
5 4 (10.53%) Network Security Auditor
6 3 (7.895%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.895%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) SecurID
2 9 (23.68%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (23.68%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (23.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) ITIL
2 22 (57.89%) Service Delivery
3 19 (50.00%) Performance Management
4 9 (23.68%) Mobile Device Management
5 7 (18.42%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (81.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (31.58%) Hyper-V
1 12 (31.58%) vSphere
2 9 (23.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 38 (100.00%) Cisco
1 38 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 31 (81.58%) Juniper
3 15 (39.47%) Nortel
3 15 (39.47%) Avaya
4 12 (31.58%) VMware
4 12 (31.58%) CA
5 9 (23.68%) Verint
5 9 (23.68%) Microsoft