The first table below looks at the demand for Network 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 Network 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Rank 213 235 240
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +5
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 16 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.202% 0.106% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.297% 0.164% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 0
Average daily rate £500 £463 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £375 £395
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5379 6721 6614
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.90% 64.97% 64.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2783 3216 3013
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 £255 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 327 363
Average hourly rate £26.98 £25.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.78% -27.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.37 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Network Load Balancing
England

Network Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Network Load Balancing Jobs Demand Trend

Network Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Network Load Balancing Daily Rate Trend

Network Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Network Load Balancing Hourly Rate Trend

Network 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 Network Load Balancing within the South 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
Surrey +26 11 £500 -
West Sussex - 4 - -
Hampshire -4 1 - -
Network Load Balancing
England

Network Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Network 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 Network Load Balancing.

1 20 (74.07%) Firewall
2 17 (62.96%) Solaris
2 17 (62.96%) SMTP
2 17 (62.96%) Cisco
2 17 (62.96%) Juniper
2 17 (62.96%) McAfee
2 17 (62.96%) Intrusion Detection
3 16 (59.26%) Internet
4 14 (51.85%) Radware
4 14 (51.85%) SAN
5 11 (40.74%) Finance
5 11 (40.74%) NAS
5 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
6 10 (37.04%) Network Security
6 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
6 10 (37.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (37.04%) CRM
7 8 (29.63%) Wireless
7 8 (29.63%) LAN
7 8 (29.63%) DMZ
7 8 (29.63%) Wireless Security
7 8 (29.63%) NLBS
7 8 (29.63%) F5
8 7 (25.93%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
10 5 (18.52%) Customer Engagement
11 3 (11.11%) WAN
12 2 (7.407%) IIS
12 2 (7.407%) Windows
12 2 (7.407%) Business Analysis

Network Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Network 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 Network Load Balancing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.704%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.407%) IIS
2 1 (3.704%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.704%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.704%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (74.07%) Firewall
2 17 (62.96%) SMTP
2 17 (62.96%) Intrusion Detection
3 16 (59.26%) Internet
4 14 (51.85%) SAN
5 11 (40.74%) NAS
6 10 (37.04%) Network Security
7 8 (29.63%) Wireless
7 8 (29.63%) LAN
7 8 (29.63%) DMZ
7 8 (29.63%) Wireless Security
8 3 (11.11%) WAN
9 1 (3.704%) TCP/IP
9 1 (3.704%) DNS
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.704%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Architect
2 15 (55.56%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (33.33%) Analyst
4 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (18.52%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (18.52%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.407%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Network Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Web Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.704%) Administrator
7 1 (3.704%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.704%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Solaris
2 2 (7.407%) Windows
3 1 (3.704%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Stakeholder Management
1 10 (37.04%) CRM
2 7 (25.93%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (18.52%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (7.407%) Business Analysis
5 1 (3.704%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) NLBS
2 1 (3.704%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.704%) SCCM
1 1 (3.704%) SCOM
1 1 (3.704%) Cacti
1 1 (3.704%) HP SIM
1 1 (3.704%) MOM
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) Cisco
1 17 (62.96%) Juniper
1 17 (62.96%) McAfee
2 14 (51.85%) Radware
3 8 (29.63%) F5
4 1 (3.704%) Qualys
4 1 (3.704%) Altiris
4 1 (3.704%) HP
4 1 (3.704%) Sophos
Crawley, West Sussex
Requirements: Strong technical expertise covering a range of the following: - Network infrastructure (WAN, LAN, Wireless, voice, Remote Access Solutions) - Network Security (Firewalls, GTM's, LTM's, Proxies, DMZ,...
Connectus
Rate: £380 - £400 per hour
Posted: 20 May 2013