The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Balancing 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the South Yorkshire 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
Load Balancing
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 1.119% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.648% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
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
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
182 145 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 67.91% 56.86% 51.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 77 87
Average daily rate £330 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.45% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £200 £232
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £464 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 18
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% -36.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £19.72 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.75 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Load Balancing
Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Doncaster - 2 £437 -
Sheffield - 1 £300 -
Load Balancing
Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) L2TP
3 1 (16.67%) VRRP
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCDA
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) Intel
3 1 (16.67%) Nortel

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) FWSM
3 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
3 1 (16.67%) Nortel Alteon
3 1 (16.67%) L2TP
3 1 (16.67%) VRRP
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Information Assurance
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCIE
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIP
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCDA
2 1 (16.67%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) ProxySG
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Intel
3 1 (16.67%) Nortel