Load Balancing Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 181 162 204
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +42
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 20 51 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.318% 0.656% 0.427%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.433% 0.918% 0.594%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 27
Average daily rate £468 £415 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.65% -7.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £299 £364
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £535 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £398
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £37.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.75 £55.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-58.63% +100.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 4620 5558 7076
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.39% 71.44% 71.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3487 4000 5250
Average daily rate £450 £462 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.59% -7.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 99 97
Average hourly rate £42.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Load Balancing
London

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Load Balancing Daily Rate Trend

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Load Balancing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Load Balancing Daily Rate Histogram

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Load Balancing across the City of London region.

City of London Load Balancing Hourly Rate Trend

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 22 (44.90%) Firewall
2 18 (36.73%) Linux
2 18 (36.73%) Cisco
3 16 (32.65%) UNIX
4 15 (30.61%) Finance
5 14 (28.57%) Windows
6 13 (26.53%) LAN
6 13 (26.53%) Internet
6 13 (26.53%) F5
7 12 (24.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (24.49%) WAN
8 11 (22.45%) Red Hat
9 10 (20.41%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (20.41%) Migration
9 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
9 10 (20.41%) VMware
10 9 (18.37%) SAN
10 9 (18.37%) BGP
10 9 (18.37%) DNS
11 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
11 8 (16.33%) Citrix
11 8 (16.33%) Riverbed
12 7 (14.29%) Banking
12 7 (14.29%) Clustering
12 7 (14.29%) OSPF
12 7 (14.29%) Web Services
13 6 (12.24%) OO
13 6 (12.24%) IIS
13 6 (12.24%) Oracle
13 6 (12.24%) C++

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 7 (14.29%) Web Services
2 5 (10.20%) .NET
3 4 (8.163%) XML
3 4 (8.163%) STL
3 4 (8.163%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (4.082%) jQuery
4 2 (4.082%) RESTful
4 2 (4.082%) HTML5
4 2 (4.082%) REST
4 2 (4.082%) CSS3
4 2 (4.082%) WebSockets
4 2 (4.082%) SOAP
4 2 (4.082%) Java EE
4 2 (4.082%) Middleware
4 2 (4.082%) LAMP
4 2 (4.082%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.082%) CSS
5 1 (2.041%) JDBC
5 1 (2.041%) XSL
5 1 (2.041%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.24%) IIS
2 5 (10.20%) Apache
3 3 (6.122%) CloudStack
4 1 (2.041%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.041%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.041%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.041%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.041%) CICS
4 1 (2.041%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.041%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (2.041%) ESB
4 1 (2.041%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (2.041%) Confluence
4 1 (2.041%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.041%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.082%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (44.90%) Firewall
2 13 (26.53%) LAN
2 13 (26.53%) Internet
3 12 (24.49%) WAN
4 9 (18.37%) SAN
4 9 (18.37%) DNS
4 9 (18.37%) BGP
5 7 (14.29%) OSPF
6 6 (12.24%) HTTP
6 6 (12.24%) NetScaler
7 5 (10.20%) VoIP
7 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
7 5 (10.20%) Network Security
7 5 (10.20%) BIG-IP
8 4 (8.163%) Wireless
8 4 (8.163%) FWSM
9 3 (6.122%) NAS
9 3 (6.122%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (6.122%) VLAN
9 3 (6.122%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.20%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (8.163%) MySQL
4 3 (6.122%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (4.082%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.082%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.082%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (2.041%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.041%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.041%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (2.041%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 2 (4.082%) JIRA
1 2 (4.082%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.041%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.041%) ClearCase
2 1 (2.041%) Subversion
General
1 15 (30.61%) Finance
2 7 (14.29%) Banking
3 4 (8.163%) Investment Banking
3 4 (8.163%) Legal
4 3 (6.122%) Law
4 3 (6.122%) Advertising
5 2 (4.082%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.041%) French Language
6 1 (2.041%) Front Office
6 1 (2.041%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Architect
2 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (10.20%) Security Architect
3 5 (10.20%) Developer
4 4 (8.163%) Consultant
4 4 (8.163%) C++ Developer
5 3 (6.122%) Technical Architect
5 3 (6.122%) Administrator
5 3 (6.122%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 2 (4.082%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (4.082%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.082%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.082%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (4.082%) DBA
6 2 (4.082%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.082%) Development Manager
6 2 (4.082%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (4.082%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.082%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.082%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Clustering
2 6 (12.24%) PKI
2 6 (12.24%) Open Source
3 5 (10.20%) CLARiiON
4 2 (4.082%) Replication
4 2 (4.082%) N-Tier
4 2 (4.082%) Firmware
4 2 (4.082%) SaaS
5 1 (2.041%) PaaS
5 1 (2.041%) SWIFT
5 1 (2.041%) RMADS
5 1 (2.041%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.041%) Data Integration
5 1 (2.041%) DataPower
5 1 (2.041%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.041%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (2.041%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.041%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.041%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.73%) Linux
2 16 (32.65%) UNIX
3 14 (28.57%) Windows
4 12 (24.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.122%) Solaris
5 3 (6.122%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (6.122%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.082%) HPUX
7 1 (2.041%) VMS
7 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.041%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.041%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.41%) Migration
2 6 (12.24%) Information Security
2 6 (12.24%) OO
2 6 (12.24%) E-Commerce
3 4 (8.163%) Configuration Management
3 4 (8.163%) Identity Management
3 4 (8.163%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (8.163%) Multithreading
3 4 (8.163%) Network Management
3 4 (8.163%) High Availability
4 3 (6.122%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (6.122%) Security Architecture
4 3 (6.122%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (6.122%) Incident Management
4 3 (6.122%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (6.122%) ITIL
4 3 (6.122%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (4.082%) ETL
5 2 (4.082%) Project Management
5 2 (4.082%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) C++
2 5 (10.20%) Java
2 5 (10.20%) Perl
2 5 (10.20%) PHP
2 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
3 4 (8.163%) SQL
4 3 (6.122%) T-SQL
4 3 (6.122%) Python
5 2 (4.082%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.082%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.041%) XPath
6 1 (2.041%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.041%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.041%) C#
6 1 (2.041%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.24%) CCIE
3 3 (6.122%) CCNP
3 3 (6.122%) JNCIE
4 2 (4.082%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.082%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.082%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.082%) MCSE
5 1 (2.041%) VCP5
5 1 (2.041%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.041%) Degree
5 1 (2.041%) CCNA
5 1 (2.041%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.163%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.24%) Forefront TMG
3 5 (10.20%) UAG
4 4 (8.163%) vSphere
5 3 (6.122%) vCloud
6 2 (4.082%) ProxySG
6 2 (4.082%) VMware ESX
7 1 (2.041%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (2.041%) ISA Server
7 1 (2.041%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.041%) XenApp
7 1 (2.041%) XenServer
7 1 (2.041%) XenDesktop
7 1 (2.041%) Xen
7 1 (2.041%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 4 (8.163%) Nagios
2 3 (6.122%) CiscoWorks
2 3 (6.122%) Zenoss
2 3 (6.122%) Puppet
3 2 (4.082%) BladeLogic
4 1 (2.041%) SCCM
4 1 (2.041%) Splunk
4 1 (2.041%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Cisco
2 13 (26.53%) F5
3 11 (22.45%) Red Hat
4 10 (20.41%) VMware
5 8 (16.33%) Riverbed
5 8 (16.33%) Citrix
6 6 (12.24%) Oracle
6 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
6 6 (12.24%) EMC
7 5 (10.20%) Blue Coat
7 5 (10.20%) Juniper
7 5 (10.20%) NetApp
8 4 (8.163%) CheckPoint
8 4 (8.163%) HP
9 2 (4.082%) JBoss
9 2 (4.082%) Sun
9 2 (4.082%) Veritas
9 2 (4.082%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.041%) Aruba
10 1 (2.041%) Tableau
Implementation Engineer
City, London
It is essential that the successful candidate has experience Linux (Oracle 5.x/6.x), with any knowledge or experience of Windows 2008/12 operating systems as an...
Experis IT
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT MANAGER - BANKING
City, London
project manager, architect, infrastructure, lan, wan, laas, blade architecture, virtual architecture, storage, emc san, active directory, domain design, acl, proxies... Must have proven exp of infrastructure PM and...
JM
Posted: 15 May 2013
Network & Communications - Network Engineer
City of London
Search terms: - network, engineer, networking, communications, juniper, tcp/ip, lan, wan, unified communications, netscaler, windows, video conference, load balancing Top global law firm requires 2 x Network & Communications...
Hudson IT London
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
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