GLBP Contracts in England

Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GLBP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GLBP over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 657 786
Rank change year-on-year +130 +129 -164
Contract jobs citing GLBP 9 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.006% 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.048% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £386 - £457
25th Percentile £400 £490 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £530 £490
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% +8.16% -14.04%
75th Percentile £508 £570 £521
90th Percentile £520 - £536
UK median daily rate £443 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -16.42% +6.00% -12.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

GLBP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,081 6,222 7,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 12.24% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,073 4,097 5,263
10th Percentile £205 £231 £219
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.56%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 451 306
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.25 £47.84
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.44
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%

GLBP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GLBP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GLBP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GLBP in England.

Daily rate trend for GLBP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GLBP in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GLBP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GLBP within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 6 £486 - 1
South East +13 3 £400 -24.53%
GLBP
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) HSRP
1 9 (100.00%) VRRP
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (66.67%) EIGRP
3 6 (66.67%) LAN
3 6 (66.67%) Network Security
3 6 (66.67%) OSPF
3 6 (66.67%) VLAN
3 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 6 (66.67%) VXLAN
3 6 (66.67%) WAN
4 5 (55.56%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (33.33%) IPsec
5 3 (33.33%) MPLS
5 3 (33.33%) SNMP
5 3 (33.33%) SSL
5 3 (33.33%) VPLS
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Switch Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) LAN Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Network Design
2 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 4 (44.44%) Network Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Supplier Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) Juniper
2 6 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) CheckPoint