The first table below looks at the demand for NLBS skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NLBS 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 System Software category for the 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
Microsoft Network Load Balancing Services (NLBS)
Rank - 398 -
Contract jobs citing NLBS 0 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.030% -
As % of the System Software category - 0.386% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £278 -
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1654 2071 1882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.660% 7.733% 6.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 1193 992
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 178 199
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
NLBS
England

NLBS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London NLBS Jobs Demand Trend

NLBS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing NLBS across the London region.

London NLBS Daily Rate Trend

NLBS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) BCP
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 3 (100.00%) DSL
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 3 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (100.00%) Xen
1 3 (100.00%) WSUS
1 3 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management

NLBS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) DSL
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 3 (100.00%) BIG-IP
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BCP
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Xen
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) VMware