Load Balancing Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 357 256 312
Rank change year-on-year
-101 +56
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 182 401 308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.392% 0.688% 0.505%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.553% 1.013% 0.746%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 183 150
Average daily rate £360 £375 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £277 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £398
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 7
Average hourly rate £22.75 £43.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.09% +19.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £23.60 £32.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £57.50 £39.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.75 £43.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-47.09% +56.36%
Search 106 Load Balancing jobs
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Load Balancing Hourly Rate Trend

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Load Balancing Hourly Rate Histogram

Load Balancing
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England -105 169 £360 -4.00%
London -41 91 £468 +20.64%
Yorkshire +10 29 £275 -15.38%
South East -36 26 £375 +7.14%
West Yorkshire +8 24 £250 -
Leeds +6 24 £250 -23.07%
City of London -11 22 £468 +12.65%
Berkshire -23 10 £375 +7.14%
West Midlands -3 8 £450 +56.38%
West Sussex +24 7 £350 -6.66%
Crawley - 7 £350 -
South West +5 6 £350 -12.50%
Scotland -5 6 £345 +72.50%
Shropshire +13 5 £540 -
Buckinghamshire +5 5 £475 +52.00%
Milton Keynes +5 5 £475 +52.00%
Telford - 5 £540 -
Cwmbran - 4 - -
South Wales - 4 - -
Wales - 4 - -
Torfaen - 4 - -
Hammersmith - 4 - -
North West +2 3 £226 -35.42%
Reading -9 3 £395 +34.46%
Glasgow -12 3 £300 -
South Yorkshire - 3 £425 -
Midlands +2 2 - -
Bournemouth 0 2 - -
Canary Wharf -2 2 - -
Dorset -3 2 - -

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 159 (39.26%) Linux
2 157 (38.77%) Firewall
3 142 (35.06%) Cisco
4 116 (28.64%) Windows
5 99 (24.44%) DNS
6 93 (22.96%) UNIX
7 92 (22.72%) Oracle
8 87 (21.48%) VMware
9 84 (20.74%) SQL Server
10 81 (20.00%) F5
11 79 (19.51%) SAN
12 78 (19.26%) Citrix
13 72 (17.78%) TCP/IP
14 71 (17.53%) VMware Infrastructure
15 69 (17.04%) Apache
16 67 (16.54%) Red Hat
17 64 (15.80%) CheckPoint
17 64 (15.80%) Java
17 64 (15.80%) Microsoft
18 62 (15.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 60 (14.81%) VPN
19 60 (14.81%) WAN
19 60 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
20 59 (14.57%) LAN
21 58 (14.32%) Clustering
22 57 (14.07%) Perl
22 57 (14.07%) Internet
23 56 (13.83%) IIS
24 55 (13.58%) E-Commerce
24 55 (13.58%) SSL

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 44 (10.86%) Web Services
2 42 (10.37%) .NET
3 35 (8.642%) Middleware
4 25 (6.173%) XML
5 20 (4.938%) WebSphere
6 19 (4.691%) SOAP
7 17 (4.198%) Node.js
7 17 (4.198%) REST
7 17 (4.198%) Java EE
8 13 (3.210%) HTML5
8 13 (3.210%) J2EE
8 13 (3.210%) CSS
9 11 (2.716%) XSLT
9 11 (2.716%) HTML
9 11 (2.716%) WSH
9 11 (2.716%) LAMP
10 10 (2.469%) Ajax
10 10 (2.469%) WSRP
10 10 (2.469%) JSR 168
10 10 (2.469%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 69 (17.04%) Apache
2 56 (13.83%) IIS
3 41 (10.12%) Amazon AWS
4 33 (8.148%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (5.432%) Tomcat
6 18 (4.444%) nginx
7 17 (4.198%) Amazon S3
7 17 (4.198%) Route 53
7 17 (4.198%) WebSphere Application Server
8 16 (3.951%) WebLogic
9 13 (3.210%) SharePoint
10 12 (2.963%) WebSphere MQ
11 10 (2.469%) MS Exchange
12 8 (1.975%) GlassFish
12 8 (1.975%) Exchange Server 2010
12 8 (1.975%) Windows Azure
13 7 (1.728%) Confluence
13 7 (1.728%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (1.481%) IBM HTTP Server
14 6 (1.481%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 20 (4.938%) MS Excel
2 13 (3.210%) MS Office
3 12 (2.963%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.494%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.728%) Oracle 11i
1 7 (1.728%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.494%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.494%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (0.494%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.247%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.247%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.247%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 157 (38.77%) Firewall
2 99 (24.44%) DNS
3 79 (19.51%) SAN
4 72 (17.78%) TCP/IP
5 60 (14.81%) VPN
5 60 (14.81%) WAN
6 59 (14.57%) LAN
7 57 (14.07%) Internet
8 55 (13.58%) SSL
9 52 (12.84%) BGP
10 50 (12.35%) Network Security
11 47 (11.60%) NetScaler
12 46 (11.36%) DHCP
13 44 (10.86%) MPLS
14 43 (10.62%) NAS
15 38 (9.383%) OSPF
16 37 (9.136%) Cisco Nexus
17 36 (8.889%) HTTP
18 30 (7.407%) BIG-IP
19 27 (6.667%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (20.74%) SQL Server
2 47 (11.60%) MySQL
3 34 (8.395%) MongoDB
4 27 (6.667%) Redis
5 23 (5.679%) SQL Server 2008
6 21 (5.185%) SQL Server 2005
7 20 (4.938%) Oracle 8/8i
8 18 (4.444%) NoSQL
9 17 (4.198%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (3.951%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (3.457%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (3.210%) Oracle BI EE
13 13 (3.210%) Oracle 11g
14 12 (2.963%) Oracle OWB
15 11 (2.716%) RDBMS
16 10 (2.469%) SQL Server 2000
16 10 (2.469%) CouchDB
17 9 (2.222%) Oracle 10g
18 7 (1.728%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (4.691%) JIRA
2 16 (3.951%) Hudson
2 16 (3.951%) Git (software)
3 15 (3.704%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.469%) Selenium
4 10 (2.469%) Maven
5 7 (1.728%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (1.481%) Introscope
7 3 (0.741%) ClearCase
7 3 (0.741%) Subversion
8 2 (0.494%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.494%) LoadRunner
General
1 49 (12.10%) Finance
2 34 (8.395%) Telecoms
3 17 (4.198%) Banking
4 8 (1.975%) Retail
5 5 (1.235%) Legal
6 4 (0.988%) Law
6 4 (0.988%) Advertising
6 4 (0.988%) Publishing
7 3 (0.741%) Financial Institution
7 3 (0.741%) Games
7 3 (0.741%) Marketing
8 2 (0.494%) Music
8 2 (0.494%) German Language
8 2 (0.494%) Dutch Language
8 2 (0.494%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.494%) Back Office
8 2 (0.494%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.247%) Front Office
9 1 (0.247%) Finnish Language
9 1 (0.247%) French Language
Job Titles
1 65 (16.05%) Network Engineer
2 54 (13.33%) Architect
3 43 (10.62%) Consultant
4 40 (9.877%) Administrator
5 31 (7.654%) Infrastructure Architect
6 24 (5.926%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (3.704%) Developer
7 15 (3.704%) Linux Engineer
8 14 (3.457%) UNIX Engineer
9 13 (3.210%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (3.210%) Network Security Engineer
9 13 (3.210%) Security Engineer
10 12 (2.963%) Design Engineer
11 11 (2.716%) Operations Engineer
11 11 (2.716%) SharePoint Administrator
12 10 (2.469%) Linux Administrator
12 10 (2.469%) Cisco Engineer
12 10 (2.469%) Systems Administrator
12 10 (2.469%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (2.222%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.32%) Clustering
2 27 (6.667%) Open Source
3 25 (6.173%) Client/Server
4 19 (4.691%) PKI
5 18 (4.444%) CLARiiON
6 15 (3.704%) IaaS
6 15 (3.704%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.457%) PaaS
8 12 (2.963%) Data Integration
9 11 (2.716%) Firmware
10 10 (2.469%) Taxonomies
10 10 (2.469%) Ontologies
11 8 (1.975%) Computer Science
11 8 (1.975%) Fat Client
11 8 (1.975%) Replication
11 8 (1.975%) Thin Client
12 7 (1.728%) Cryptography
13 6 (1.481%) SaaS
13 6 (1.481%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.235%) RMADS
Operating Systems
1 159 (39.26%) Linux
2 116 (28.64%) Windows
3 93 (22.96%) UNIX
4 62 (15.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (9.630%) Windows Server 2003
6 36 (8.889%) Solaris
7 32 (7.901%) Windows Server 2008
8 16 (3.951%) HPUX
9 14 (3.457%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.975%) Windows 7
11 7 (1.728%) CentOS
12 5 (1.235%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.988%) Windows 2000 Server
14 3 (0.741%) VMS
15 2 (0.494%) Debian
15 2 (0.494%) Windows 2000
15 2 (0.494%) AIX
15 2 (0.494%) Windows XP
15 2 (0.494%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.247%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (13.58%) E-Commerce
2 48 (11.85%) ITIL
3 46 (11.36%) Migration
4 34 (8.395%) Configuration Management
5 32 (7.901%) Change Management
6 30 (7.407%) Capacity Management
7 23 (5.679%) Change Control
7 23 (5.679%) Disaster Recovery
8 22 (5.432%) Project Management
8 22 (5.432%) Kanban
9 21 (5.185%) Capacity Planning
10 20 (4.938%) Incident Management
10 20 (4.938%) SOA
10 20 (4.938%) High Availability
11 19 (4.691%) Release Management
12 18 (4.444%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (4.198%) Test Automation
13 17 (4.198%) Scrum
13 17 (4.198%) Information Security
14 15 (3.704%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.80%) Java
2 57 (14.07%) Perl
3 50 (12.35%) SQL
4 38 (9.383%) PHP
5 36 (8.889%) Bash shell
6 34 (8.395%) Python
7 25 (6.173%) C++
8 24 (5.926%) PowerShell
9 21 (5.185%) Shell Script
10 18 (4.444%) Ruby
11 16 (3.951%) JavaScript
12 10 (2.469%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.728%) sed
13 7 (1.728%) AWK
14 5 (1.235%) ABAP
14 5 (1.235%) C
15 4 (0.988%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.988%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.741%) VBScript
17 2 (0.494%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 60 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (8.642%) CCNP
3 34 (8.395%) Security Cleared
4 27 (6.667%) SC Cleared
5 23 (5.679%) CCIE
6 20 (4.938%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.704%) CCNA
7 15 (3.704%) Degree
8 13 (3.210%) MCSE
9 11 (2.716%) MCTS
10 9 (2.222%) CCSP
11 7 (1.728%) JNCIE
12 6 (1.481%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (1.481%) OCA
12 6 (1.481%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (1.481%) Citrix Certification
13 5 (1.235%) MCP
13 5 (1.235%) CCSA
14 4 (0.988%) CCSE
14 4 (0.988%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.667%) SLA
2 7 (1.728%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.988%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.741%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.247%) QA
5 1 (0.247%) DICOM
System Software
1 71 (17.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (12.35%) Active Directory
3 23 (5.679%) XenApp
3 23 (5.679%) XenServer
3 23 (5.679%) vSphere
4 22 (5.432%) Hyper-V
5 19 (4.691%) ProxySG
6 18 (4.444%) VMware ESX
7 17 (4.198%) XenDesktop
8 10 (2.469%) Samba
9 9 (2.222%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (1.975%) vCloud
10 8 (1.975%) Forefront TMG
10 8 (1.975%) Postfix
11 7 (1.728%) Nmap
12 6 (1.481%) Squid
12 6 (1.481%) NFS
12 6 (1.481%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (1.235%) UAG
13 5 (1.235%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 54 (13.33%) Puppet
2 26 (6.420%) Nagios
3 13 (3.210%) OpenView
4 12 (2.963%) SCCM
5 9 (2.222%) Cacti
5 9 (2.222%) BladeLogic
6 8 (1.975%) SCOM
7 7 (1.728%) HP Operations Orchestration
8 6 (1.481%) HP SiteScope
8 6 (1.481%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.988%) Zenoss
10 3 (0.741%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.741%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 3 (0.741%) Splunk
10 3 (0.741%) CiscoWorks
10 3 (0.741%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.741%) WSUS
11 2 (0.494%) CA SiteMinder
11 2 (0.494%) TIBCO Hawk
11 2 (0.494%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 142 (35.06%) Cisco
2 92 (22.72%) Oracle
3 87 (21.48%) VMware
4 81 (20.00%) F5
5 78 (19.26%) Citrix
6 67 (16.54%) Red Hat
7 64 (15.80%) CheckPoint
7 64 (15.80%) Microsoft
8 40 (9.877%) Juniper
9 38 (9.383%) HP
10 36 (8.889%) EMC
11 33 (8.148%) JBoss
12 29 (7.160%) Blue Coat
13 21 (5.185%) Sun
14 18 (4.444%) SAP
15 17 (4.198%) Nokia
16 16 (3.951%) NetApp
16 16 (3.951%) Riverbed
17 15 (3.704%) SolarWinds
17 15 (3.704%) Veritas
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