The first table below looks at the demand for NLBS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NLBS 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 System Software category for the Crawley 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Network Load Balancing Services (NLBS)
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing NLBS 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 2.632% - -
As % of the System Software category 16.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
25 20 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 16.45% 7.143% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 4
Average daily rate £425 £394 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.93% +35.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £18.50 £12.31 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.25% -41.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
NLBS
West Sussex

NLBS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NLBS across the Crawley region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Crawley NLBS Jobs Demand Trend

NLBS
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing NLBS 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 NLBS.

1 7 (100.00%) DMZ
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) Wireless
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 7 (100.00%) Network Security
1 7 (100.00%) Wireless Security
1 7 (100.00%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall

NLBS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing NLBS 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 NLBS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DMZ
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) Wireless
1 7 (100.00%) Network Security
1 7 (100.00%) Wireless Security
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Network Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) F5
Crawley, West Sussex
Requirements: Strong technical expertise covering a range of the following: - Network infrastructure (WAN, LAN, Wireless, voice, Remote Access Solutions) - Network Security (Firewalls, GTM's, LTM's, Proxies, DMZ,...
Connectus
Rate: £380 - £400 per hour
Posted: 20 May 2013