The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 23 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheltenham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank - 31 -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 0 17 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham - 7.054% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 8.995% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 17 0
Average daily rate - £475 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £398
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.75 £55.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-58.63% +100.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
52 189 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 68.42% 78.42% 52.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 106 21
Average daily rate £343 £425 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.41% +37.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £395 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 9
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £25.00 £34.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Load Balancing
Gloucestershire

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Load Balancing across the Cheltenham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheltenham Load Balancing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheltenham Load Balancing Daily Rate Trend

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon AWS

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 2 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware