The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Tyne and Wear 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 29 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 1 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 0.510% 1.809% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.719% 2.456% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £398
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -11.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £31.00 -
% change year-on-year
-27.41% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
139 285 168
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 70.92% 73.64% 57.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 149 75
Average daily rate £375 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £158
10% offered a daily rate of more than £750 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 7
Average hourly rate £19.00 £21.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.62% +26.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Load Balancing
North East

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Load Balancing Daily Rate Trend

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (50.00%) RDF
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (50.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) RDF
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
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