Cardiff Load Balancing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills within the Cardiff 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 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Load Balancing
Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Plymouth Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£346
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
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	£35.43	£35.75
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Processes & Methodologies Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	116	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.162 %	0.102 %
Daily rates quoted	41	25
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£383
Average daily rate	£357	£425
% change on same period last year	-16.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£468
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.49	£27.99
Average hourly rate	£34.18	£29.13
% change on same period last year	+17.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.86	£30.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.37	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-2.09 %
Load Balancing South Wales

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.

Load Balancing
Demand Trend

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