The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Balancing 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the North East 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
Load Balancing
Rank 35 40 42
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +2
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 1 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.375% 2.012% 0.471%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.571% 3.135% 0.813%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 2
Average daily rate - £363 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -23.68%
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 £55.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-58.63% +100.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
175 319 246
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 65.54% 64.19% 57.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 175 109
Average daily rate £330 £360 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +10.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £575 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 12
Average hourly rate £19.00 £24.25 £21.86
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.64% +10.93%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Tyne and Wear +4 1 - -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) ESB
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) FWSM
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (33.33%) RDF
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (33.33%) IIS

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) ESB
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) FWSM
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) RDF
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 1 (33.33%) Nokia
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss