The first table below looks at the demand for OSPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSPF over the 3 months to 22 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 Worcestershire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Rank 40 47 35
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -12
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 1 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 0.465% 0.352% 0.505%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.226% 3.125% 2.439%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
Average salary £30,000 £65,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-53.84% +4.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Worcestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
31 32 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 14.42% 11.27% 20.71%
Number of salaries quoted 30 29 35
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,000 £21,700
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OSPF
West Midlands

OSPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire OSPF Salary Trend

OSPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCIP
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) CCSA
2 1 (50.00%) CCVP
2 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) FWSM
2 1 (50.00%) Twitter
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP

OSPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) FWSM
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) X.21
2 1 (50.00%) ATM
2 1 (50.00%) ISDN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) PPP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) NOC Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCIP
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSA
2 1 (50.00%) CCVP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Twitter
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
You will contribute as a technical resource to their project roadmap, both as a technical lead and with planning / network design. This role is suitable for a Network...
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013