The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Gloucestershire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 34 43 52
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +9
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 1 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.410% 2.012% 0.668%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.676% 2.786% 1.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 1
Average daily rate - £475 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +14.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £398
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -11.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £43.25 -
% change year-on-year
-47.97% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
148 359 298
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 60.66% 72.23% 66.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 230 123
Average daily rate £375 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £520 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 41
Average hourly rate £29.00 £30.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £25.00 £20.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Load Balancing
South West

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Load Balancing Daily Rate Trend

Load Balancing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Vacancies
Cheltenham +2 1 - -
Gloucester - - - -
Load Balancing
South West

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (87.50%) GlassFish
2 7 (87.50%) Solaris
2 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) DHCP
2 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (87.50%) DNS
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle 10g
2 7 (87.50%) Sun
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) SAN
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 7 (87.50%) WebLogic
2 7 (87.50%) UNIX
2 7 (87.50%) Middleware
2 7 (87.50%) MPLS
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Azure
2 7 (87.50%) PaaS
2 7 (87.50%) IaaS
3 6 (75.00%) vSphere
3 6 (75.00%) Amazon AWS
3 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (87.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (87.50%) GlassFish
1 7 (87.50%) WebLogic
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
1 7 (87.50%) DHCP
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) SAN
1 7 (87.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle 11g
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Architect
1 7 (87.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) PaaS
1 7 (87.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Solaris
2 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) UNIX
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) SUSE
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle RAC
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) vSphere
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Sun
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle
3 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
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