The first table below looks at the demand for NLBS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NLBS over the 3 months to 21 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 System Software 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Network Load Balancing Services (NLBS)
Rank 536 569 -
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -
Contract jobs citing NLBS 4 12 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.008% 0.021% -
As % of the System Software category 0.091% 0.258% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £278 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4407 4652 4389
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.335% 7.958% 7.296%
Number of daily rates quoted 2121 2234 1929
Average daily rate £350 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 623 644
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.03 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

NLBS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NLBS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

NLBS Jobs Demand Trend

NLBS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing NLBS within the UK.

NLBS Daily Rate Trend

NLBS
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NLBS within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +40 4 - -
South East - 4 - -
West Sussex - 4 - -
Crawley - 4 - -

NLBS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NLBS 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 NLBS.

1 9 (75.00%) LAN
2 8 (66.67%) Wireless
2 8 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (66.67%) DMZ
2 8 (66.67%) Network Load Balancing
2 8 (66.67%) Network Security
2 8 (66.67%) Wireless Security
2 8 (66.67%) F5
3 7 (58.33%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (50.00%) SAN
5 4 (33.33%) Firewall
5 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 4 (33.33%) WAN
5 4 (33.33%) Windows
6 3 (25.00%) SQL
6 3 (25.00%) IIS
6 3 (25.00%) DHCP
6 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (25.00%) DNS
6 3 (25.00%) SLA
6 3 (25.00%) LDAP
6 3 (25.00%) Clustering
6 3 (25.00%) NAS
6 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
7 2 (16.67%) MS Excel

NLBS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NLBS 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 NLBS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
2 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) LAN
2 8 (66.67%) Wireless
2 8 (66.67%) DMZ
2 8 (66.67%) Network Security
2 8 (66.67%) Wireless Security
3 6 (50.00%) SAN
4 4 (33.33%) Firewall
4 4 (33.33%) WAN
5 3 (25.00%) DHCP
5 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (25.00%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) LDAP
5 3 (25.00%) NAS
6 1 (8.333%) MPLS
6 1 (8.333%) DSL
6 1 (8.333%) IP Telephony
6 1 (8.333%) BIG-IP
General
1 1 (8.333%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Analyst
1 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (16.67%) Network Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Server Support
5 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Server Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Server Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
2 1 (8.333%) Thin Client
2 1 (8.333%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 8 (66.67%) Network Load Balancing
2 7 (58.33%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
5 1 (8.333%) BCP
5 1 (8.333%) Business Continuity
5 1 (8.333%) ITSM
5 1 (8.333%) Service Management
5 1 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (8.333%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (8.333%) MCSE
1 1 (8.333%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.333%) Xen
2 1 (8.333%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.333%) Citrix
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco
3 1 (8.333%) VMware
3 1 (8.333%) CheckPoint
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