Basingstoke Load Balancing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills within the Basingstoke region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Brighton Bristol Cheshire City of London Crawley Croydon Devon East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Sunderland Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	48
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.426 %	0.420 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£340
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.93	£36.54
% change on same period last year	+1.04 %
Processes & Methodologies Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	235	238
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.310 %	0.237 %
Daily rates quoted	81	68
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£354
Average daily rate	£418	£382
% change on same period last year	+9.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£449	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.91	£34.71
Average hourly rate	£32.91	£35.91
% change on same period last year	-8.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.92	£37.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Load Balancing Hampshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Load Balancing across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Load Balancing across the Basingstoke region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Load Balancing 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Load Balancing.

1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (66.67 %) Replication 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) IIS 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) DB2 2 1 (33.33 %) Check Point Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) Juniper 2 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector 2 1 (33.33 %) MicroStrategy 2 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) Clustering

2 1 (33.33 %) Blue Coat 2 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco IOS 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli 2 1 (33.33 %) CA SiteMinder 2 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 2 1 (33.33 %) NetScreen 2 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) AIX 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Load Balancing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Load Balancing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) IIS 2 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco IOS 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 1 1 (33.33 %) NetScreen 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Designer 1 1 (33.33 %) Team Leader 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Team Leader 1 1 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Designer 1 1 (33.33 %) Tester 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Replication 2 1 (33.33 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Check Point Certification
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli 1 1 (33.33 %) CA SiteMinder	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Juniper 2 1 (33.33 %) MicroStrategy 2 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) Blue Coat 2 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco