The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT contracts advertised for the West 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 20 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 West 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 62 78 69
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -9
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 33 20 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.372% 1.162% 0.835%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.357% 1.571% 1.232%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 0
Average daily rate £250 £175 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £398
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -11.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £22.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £43.25 -
% change year-on-year
-47.97% -
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
983 1273 812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.67% 73.97% 67.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 725 403
Average daily rate £323 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.85% -4.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 36
Average hourly rate £28.00 £15.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.66% -31.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.76 £7.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.80 £62.50 £173.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
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 West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

West Yorkshire Load Balancing Daily Rate Histogram

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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leeds +14 27 £250 -23.07% 5
Bradford -4 5 £204 +33.60% 1
Wakefield - - - -
Load Balancing
Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 29 (72.50%) DNS
2 28 (70.00%) DHCP
2 28 (70.00%) SSL
3 25 (62.50%) Oracle
4 24 (60.00%) Web Services
4 24 (60.00%) Linux
5 23 (57.50%) TCP/IP
5 23 (57.50%) Amazon AWS
5 23 (57.50%) Bash shell
6 21 (52.50%) Python
6 21 (52.50%) Client/Server
7 19 (47.50%) Puppet
8 18 (45.00%) Apache
8 18 (45.00%) C++
8 18 (45.00%) Ruby
9 17 (42.50%) Telecoms
9 17 (42.50%) Test Automation
9 17 (42.50%) nginx
9 17 (42.50%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (42.50%) Amazon S3
9 17 (42.50%) Kanban
9 17 (42.50%) PHP
9 17 (42.50%) MySQL
9 17 (42.50%) Internet
9 17 (42.50%) Configuration Management
9 17 (42.50%) MongoDB
9 17 (42.50%) Node.js
9 17 (42.50%) Redis
9 17 (42.50%) Route 53
9 17 (42.50%) Amazon RDS

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 24 (60.00%) Web Services
2 17 (42.50%) Node.js
3 2 (5.000%) LAMP
4 1 (2.500%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.500%) POSIX
4 1 (2.500%) ASP
4 1 (2.500%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 23 (57.50%) Amazon AWS
2 18 (45.00%) Apache
3 17 (42.50%) nginx
3 17 (42.50%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (42.50%) Amazon S3
3 17 (42.50%) Route 53
4 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.500%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.500%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.500%) IIS
4 1 (2.500%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (2.500%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.500%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (12.50%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 29 (72.50%) DNS
2 28 (70.00%) DHCP
2 28 (70.00%) SSL
3 23 (57.50%) TCP/IP
4 17 (42.50%) Internet
5 11 (27.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (22.50%) Firewall
7 7 (17.50%) LAN
7 7 (17.50%) WAN
8 6 (15.00%) VPN
8 6 (15.00%) VoIP
9 4 (10.00%) MPLS
9 4 (10.00%) VLAN
10 2 (5.000%) SAN
11 1 (2.500%) NAS
11 1 (2.500%) Network Security
11 1 (2.500%) SSH
11 1 (2.500%) FTP
11 1 (2.500%) HTTP
11 1 (2.500%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (42.50%) MySQL
1 17 (42.50%) MongoDB
1 17 (42.50%) Redis
1 17 (42.50%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle BI EE
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle OWB
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle ODI
3 5 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.000%) OLTP
4 2 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.500%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.500%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.500%) SimpleDB
5 1 (2.500%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.500%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.500%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.500%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.500%) DataStage
General
1 17 (42.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.000%) Finance
3 1 (2.500%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Operations Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.500%) OBIEE Developer
4 3 (7.500%) Communications Analyst
4 3 (7.500%) Developer
4 3 (7.500%) Network Analyst
4 3 (7.500%) Architect
5 2 (5.000%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (5.000%) Administrator
5 2 (5.000%) Designer
5 2 (5.000%) OBIEE Architect
5 2 (5.000%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 1 (2.500%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (2.500%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (2.500%) Network Designer
6 1 (2.500%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (52.50%) Client/Server
2 9 (22.50%) Data Integration
3 1 (2.500%) CMDB
3 1 (2.500%) Clustering
3 1 (2.500%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 24 (60.00%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Windows
3 5 (12.50%) UNIX
4 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.500%) HPUX
4 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Test Automation
1 17 (42.50%) Kanban
1 17 (42.50%) Configuration Management
2 16 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 16 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 11 (27.50%) Security Testing
4 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
4 7 (17.50%) ETL
4 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (15.00%) Performance Testing
6 5 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (12.50%) CRM
6 5 (12.50%) ERP
7 4 (10.00%) Business Continuity
7 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Analytics
8 3 (7.500%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (7.500%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (5.000%) Performance Management
10 1 (2.500%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Bash shell
2 21 (52.50%) Python
3 18 (45.00%) C++
3 18 (45.00%) Ruby
4 17 (42.50%) PHP
5 16 (40.00%) Java
5 16 (40.00%) Perl
6 6 (15.00%) SQL
7 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) CCNA
1 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.500%) Degree
2 1 (2.500%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.500%) vSphere
2 1 (2.500%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (47.50%) Puppet
2 1 (2.500%) SCCM
2 1 (2.500%) SCOM
2 1 (2.500%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Oracle
2 10 (25.00%) Percona
3 7 (17.50%) Informatica
3 7 (17.50%) Cisco
4 4 (10.00%) PeopleSoft
4 4 (10.00%) SAP
5 2 (5.000%) VMware
6 1 (2.500%) Brocade
6 1 (2.500%) HP
6 1 (2.500%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.500%) NetApp
6 1 (2.500%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.500%) CheckPoint
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