The first table below looks at the demand for Network Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 23 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 West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Rank 109 140 -
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.100% 0.031% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.150% 0.045% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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 West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1334 2214 1871
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.37% 68.23% 65.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 1369 966
Average daily rate £375 £390 £382
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +2.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 111 129
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £16.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £39.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bristol +14 2 - -
Network Load Balancing
England

Network Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) HP
1 3 (75.00%) CiscoWorks
1 3 (75.00%) CA
1 3 (75.00%) Nokia
1 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (75.00%) MPLS
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
1 3 (75.00%) IP Telephony
1 3 (75.00%) Blue Coat
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco IPT
1 3 (75.00%) IronPort
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (75.00%) Network Management
1 3 (75.00%) Unified Communications
1 3 (75.00%) FWSM
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) MCITP
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering

Network Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) MPLS
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
1 3 (75.00%) IP Telephony
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco IPT
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (75.00%) Unified Communications
1 3 (75.00%) FWSM
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Network Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Network Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Support
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCITP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) HP
1 3 (75.00%) CA
1 3 (75.00%) Nokia
1 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (75.00%) Blue Coat
1 3 (75.00%) IronPort
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft