Load Balancing Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the South 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 20 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 South 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 198 169 162
Rank change year-on-year
-29 -7
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 27 78 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.345% 0.771% 0.807%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.508% 1.194% 1.243%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 22
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £245 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £472 £375 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £375 £398
% change year-on-year
-22.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.75 £55.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-58.63% +100.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 5312 6532 6680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.92% 64.58% 64.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2748 3133 3027
Average daily rate £375 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 327 358
Average hourly rate £27.00 £27.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.50 £13.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South East Load Balancing Daily Rate Histogram

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Load Balancing across the South East region.

South East Load Balancing Hourly 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Berkshire -18 10 £375 +7.14%
West Sussex +18 7 £350 -6.66%
Buckinghamshire +6 5 £475 +52.00%
Hampshire -13 2 £404 +16.18%
Surrey +14 1 £338 -
Kent - 1 £338 -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 27 (32.93%) Cisco
2 21 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 21 (25.61%) Firewall
3 20 (24.39%) SQL Server
4 19 (23.17%) Citrix
4 19 (23.17%) CheckPoint
4 19 (23.17%) F5
5 18 (21.95%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (20.73%) Oracle
7 16 (19.51%) Linux
8 15 (18.29%) VPN
8 15 (18.29%) VMware
9 14 (17.07%) VoIP
9 14 (17.07%) Windows
9 14 (17.07%) SQL
9 14 (17.07%) .NET
10 13 (15.85%) IIS
10 13 (15.85%) CCNP
10 13 (15.85%) Juniper
10 13 (15.85%) MPLS
11 12 (14.63%) SharePoint
11 12 (14.63%) MS Excel
11 12 (14.63%) MS Office
11 12 (14.63%) Content Management
11 12 (14.63%) Document Management
11 12 (14.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (14.63%) MS PowerPoint
11 12 (14.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (14.63%) XenApp
12 11 (13.41%) VMware Infrastructure

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 14 (17.07%) .NET
2 4 (4.878%) JDBC
3 3 (3.659%) Web Services
4 1 (1.220%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.220%) Memcached
4 1 (1.220%) J2EE
4 1 (1.220%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 13 (15.85%) IIS
2 12 (14.63%) SharePoint
3 9 (10.98%) Apache
4 4 (4.878%) Tomcat
4 4 (4.878%) Liferay
5 3 (3.659%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (3.659%) MS Exchange
6 2 (2.439%) CMS
6 2 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (2.439%) Joomla!
6 2 (2.439%) Drupal
7 1 (1.220%) nginx
7 1 (1.220%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (1.220%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (14.63%) MS Office
1 12 (14.63%) MS Excel
1 12 (14.63%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 21 (25.61%) Firewall
2 15 (18.29%) VPN
3 14 (17.07%) VoIP
4 13 (15.85%) MPLS
5 11 (13.41%) DNS
5 11 (13.41%) Network Security
6 10 (12.20%) WAN
7 9 (10.98%) TCP/IP
7 9 (10.98%) NetScaler
8 8 (9.756%) Junos
8 8 (9.756%) BGP
8 8 (9.756%) Wireless
8 8 (9.756%) LAN
8 8 (9.756%) SAN
9 7 (8.537%) SSL
10 6 (7.317%) OSPF
10 6 (7.317%) SMTP
11 5 (6.098%) LDAP
11 5 (6.098%) Ethernet
11 5 (6.098%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (24.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 12 (14.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (9.756%) MySQL
4 5 (6.098%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (4.878%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.439%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (2.439%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (4.878%) Git (software)
1 4 (4.878%) Hudson
1 4 (4.878%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (8.537%) Telecoms
2 6 (7.317%) Finance
2 6 (7.317%) Banking
3 4 (4.878%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (25.61%) Network Engineer
2 19 (23.17%) Administrator
3 13 (15.85%) Consultant
4 11 (13.41%) SharePoint Administrator
5 7 (8.537%) Cisco Engineer
5 7 (8.537%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (7.317%) Security Engineer
6 6 (7.317%) Network Security Engineer
6 6 (7.317%) Cisco Security Engineer
7 5 (6.098%) IP Engineer
7 5 (6.098%) Design Engineer
8 4 (4.878%) Architect
8 4 (4.878%) Information Manager
8 4 (4.878%) Firewall Consultant
8 4 (4.878%) Storage Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.878%) Citrix Consultant
8 4 (4.878%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (4.878%) Citrix Specialist
9 3 (3.659%) Network Design Engineer
9 3 (3.659%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.756%) Clustering
3 5 (6.098%) Open Source
4 4 (4.878%) Cryptography
5 2 (2.439%) Social Media
6 1 (1.220%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.220%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.220%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.220%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.51%) Linux
2 14 (17.07%) Windows
3 7 (8.537%) UNIX
3 7 (8.537%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (3.659%) Solaris
4 3 (3.659%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.439%) CentOS
5 2 (2.439%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.439%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.439%) AIX
6 1 (1.220%) Debian
6 1 (1.220%) OpenBSD
6 1 (1.220%) Fedora
6 1 (1.220%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.220%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (14.63%) Content Management
1 12 (14.63%) Document Management
2 11 (13.41%) Information Management
3 8 (9.756%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (8.537%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (7.317%) Change Management
5 6 (7.317%) Network Architecture
6 5 (6.098%) Capacity Management
6 5 (6.098%) Analytics
6 5 (6.098%) Project Management
7 4 (4.878%) Memory Management
8 3 (3.659%) Network Design
9 2 (2.439%) Problem Management
9 2 (2.439%) Release Management
9 2 (2.439%) Compatibility Testing
9 2 (2.439%) Service Management
9 2 (2.439%) Service Delivery
9 2 (2.439%) ITIL
9 2 (2.439%) Migration
9 2 (2.439%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.07%) SQL
2 7 (8.537%) Shell Script
3 5 (6.098%) Java
3 5 (6.098%) Perl
3 5 (6.098%) Bash shell
4 4 (4.878%) sed
4 4 (4.878%) AWK
5 3 (3.659%) PHP
6 2 (2.439%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.220%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.220%) Python
7 1 (1.220%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (15.85%) CCNP
3 8 (9.756%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.537%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.317%) CCNA
6 2 (2.439%) CCIE
6 2 (2.439%) CCSP
7 1 (1.220%) HND
7 1 (1.220%) MCSE
7 1 (1.220%) CCDP
7 1 (1.220%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.220%) CCEE
7 1 (1.220%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.220%) Check Point Certification
7 1 (1.220%) CCVP
7 1 (1.220%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.220%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.098%) SLA
2 2 (2.439%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.220%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (14.63%) XenApp
2 11 (13.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (12.20%) XenDesktop
4 7 (8.537%) Active Directory
5 5 (6.098%) Squid
5 5 (6.098%) XenServer
6 4 (4.878%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 4 (4.878%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.878%) Postfix
6 4 (4.878%) MetaFrame
6 4 (4.878%) NFS
6 4 (4.878%) Nmap
7 2 (2.439%) ProxySG
8 1 (1.220%) vSphere
8 1 (1.220%) IAG
8 1 (1.220%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (4.878%) Nagios
1 4 (4.878%) Puppet
2 3 (3.659%) SCCM
3 2 (2.439%) CA SiteMinder
4 1 (1.220%) SCOM
4 1 (1.220%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 27 (32.93%) Cisco
2 21 (25.61%) Microsoft
3 19 (23.17%) Citrix
3 19 (23.17%) CheckPoint
3 19 (23.17%) F5
4 17 (20.73%) Oracle
5 15 (18.29%) VMware
6 13 (15.85%) Juniper
7 8 (9.756%) Blue Coat
8 7 (8.537%) Nokia
8 7 (8.537%) Red Hat
9 6 (7.317%) EMC
9 6 (7.317%) TippingPoint
10 4 (4.878%) NetApp
10 4 (4.878%) SAP
10 4 (4.878%) JBoss
11 3 (3.659%) Redknee
11 3 (3.659%) Crossbeam
11 3 (3.659%) Websense
12 2 (2.439%) Zend
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