The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 50 56 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 24 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.248% 1.266% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.444% 1.783% -
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 0
Average daily rate £250 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% -
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 £43.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-47.09% +56.36%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
540 617 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.07% 71.00% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 367 208
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+151.85% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Load Balancing
West Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds Load Balancing Daily Rate Histogram

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 25 (80.65%) Linux
2 24 (77.42%) Web Services
3 23 (74.19%) DHCP
3 23 (74.19%) DNS
3 23 (74.19%) TCP/IP
3 23 (74.19%) SSL
3 23 (74.19%) Amazon AWS
3 23 (74.19%) Bash shell
4 21 (67.74%) Client/Server
4 21 (67.74%) Python
5 20 (64.52%) Oracle
6 19 (61.29%) Puppet
7 18 (58.06%) Ruby
7 18 (58.06%) C++
7 18 (58.06%) Apache
8 17 (54.84%) PHP
8 17 (54.84%) Configuration Management
8 17 (54.84%) MySQL
8 17 (54.84%) Telecoms
8 17 (54.84%) Kanban
8 17 (54.84%) MongoDB
8 17 (54.84%) Node.js
8 17 (54.84%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (54.84%) Amazon S3
8 17 (54.84%) Test Automation
8 17 (54.84%) nginx
8 17 (54.84%) Redis
8 17 (54.84%) Route 53
8 17 (54.84%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (51.61%) Capacity Management

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 24 (77.42%) Web Services
2 17 (54.84%) Node.js
3 2 (6.452%) LAMP
4 1 (3.226%) ASP
4 1 (3.226%) POSIX
4 1 (3.226%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 23 (74.19%) Amazon AWS
2 18 (58.06%) Apache
3 17 (54.84%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (54.84%) Amazon S3
3 17 (54.84%) nginx
3 17 (54.84%) Route 53
Applications
1 1 (3.226%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (74.19%) DHCP
1 23 (74.19%) DNS
1 23 (74.19%) TCP/IP
1 23 (74.19%) SSL
2 12 (38.71%) Intrusion Detection
2 12 (38.71%) Internet
3 3 (9.677%) Firewall
4 2 (6.452%) SAN
4 2 (6.452%) NAS
5 1 (3.226%) WAAS
5 1 (3.226%) Network Security
5 1 (3.226%) LAN
5 1 (3.226%) SMTP
5 1 (3.226%) HTTP
5 1 (3.226%) VPN
5 1 (3.226%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (54.84%) MySQL
1 17 (54.84%) MongoDB
1 17 (54.84%) Redis
1 17 (54.84%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.452%) Oracle OWB
2 2 (6.452%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.452%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.226%) SimpleDB
3 1 (3.226%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.226%) Couchbase
3 1 (3.226%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.226%) OLTP
3 1 (3.226%) RDBMS
General
1 17 (54.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 3 (9.677%) Consultant
4 2 (6.452%) Administrator
4 2 (6.452%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (6.452%) Business Consultant
4 2 (6.452%) Business Continuity Consultant
5 1 (3.226%) OBIEE Developer
5 1 (3.226%) OBIEE Architect
5 1 (3.226%) Senior Design Engineer
5 1 (3.226%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (3.226%) Graduate
5 1 (3.226%) Business Architect
5 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.226%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.226%) Business Continuity Manager
5 1 (3.226%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.226%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (67.74%) Client/Server
2 2 (6.452%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 25 (80.65%) Linux
2 2 (6.452%) Windows
3 1 (3.226%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.226%) HPUX
3 1 (3.226%) Solaris
3 1 (3.226%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Configuration Management
1 17 (54.84%) Kanban
1 17 (54.84%) Test Automation
2 16 (51.61%) Capacity Management
2 16 (51.61%) Incident Management
3 11 (35.48%) Security Testing
4 6 (19.35%) Performance Testing
5 2 (6.452%) Business Continuity
5 2 (6.452%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.452%) Data Modelling
5 2 (6.452%) ETL
6 1 (3.226%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.226%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.226%) Performance Management
6 1 (3.226%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (3.226%) Project Planning
6 1 (3.226%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (3.226%) Analytics
6 1 (3.226%) CRM
6 1 (3.226%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Bash shell
2 21 (67.74%) Python
3 18 (58.06%) Ruby
3 18 (58.06%) C++
4 17 (54.84%) PHP
5 16 (51.61%) Java
5 16 (51.61%) Perl
6 1 (3.226%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.452%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.452%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.226%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (6.452%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (61.29%) Puppet
2 1 (3.226%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Oracle
2 10 (32.26%) Percona
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco
4 2 (6.452%) Informatica
4 2 (6.452%) VMware
4 2 (6.452%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.226%) Juniper
5 1 (3.226%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.226%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.226%) McAfee
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