The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 104 90 93
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +3
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 12 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.716% 0.138% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.961% 0.199% 0.118%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 1
Average salary £57,500 £43,250 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+32.94% +5.48%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1249 1005 851
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.52% 69.17% 63.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1055 876 728
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Balancing
West Midlands

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Load Balancing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Balancing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Load Balancing across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Load Balancing Salary Trend

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Load Balancing across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham Load Balancing Salary Histogram

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Load Balancing.

1 9 (50.00%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (33.33%) HP
4 6 (33.33%) CCNP
4 6 (33.33%) ITIL
4 6 (33.33%) F5
5 5 (27.78%) ITIL V3
5 5 (27.78%) OSPF
5 5 (27.78%) BGP
6 4 (22.22%) Citrix
6 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (22.22%) SQL
6 4 (22.22%) Windows
6 4 (22.22%) Solaris
6 4 (22.22%) MCSE
6 4 (22.22%) VoIP
6 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
6 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (22.22%) MCITP
6 4 (22.22%) Finance
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (16.67%) UNIX
7 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 3 (16.67%) VLAN
7 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 3 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (16.67%) vSphere

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Load Balancing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 3 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 3 (16.67%) Lync
2 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) OSPF
1 5 (27.78%) BGP
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 4 (22.22%) VoIP
3 3 (16.67%) WAN
3 3 (16.67%) LAN
3 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 3 (16.67%) DNS
3 3 (16.67%) SSL
3 3 (16.67%) EIGRP
3 3 (16.67%) Firewall
3 3 (16.67%) Wireless
3 3 (16.67%) VLAN
3 3 (16.67%) DHCP
3 3 (16.67%) MPLS
3 3 (16.67%) NetScaler
4 2 (11.11%) FWSM
4 2 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 2 (11.11%) SNMP
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 3 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Network Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Deployment Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Design Architect
4 1 (5.556%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Citrix Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 3 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.556%) iPhone
2 1 (5.556%) Open Source
2 1 (5.556%) iPad
2 1 (5.556%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Solaris
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) UNIX
3 1 (5.556%) Android
3 1 (5.556%) AIX
3 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.556%) Windows 8
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) ITIL V3
3 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Network Design
4 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.556%) Project Management
5 1 (5.556%) Integration Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
3 2 (11.11%) PHP
3 2 (11.11%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (33.33%) CCNP
3 4 (22.22%) MCSE
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (22.22%) MCITP
4 3 (16.67%) CCEE
4 3 (16.67%) CCAA
4 3 (16.67%) CCIA
4 3 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (16.67%) CCEA
5 2 (11.11%) CCDP
5 2 (11.11%) HP ASE
5 2 (11.11%) HP MASE
6 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (5.556%) MCP
6 1 (5.556%) CCIE
6 1 (5.556%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) XenApp
2 3 (16.67%) XenServer
2 3 (16.67%) XenDesktop
2 3 (16.67%) vSphere
3 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 6 (33.33%) HP
3 6 (33.33%) F5
4 4 (22.22%) Citrix
5 3 (16.67%) IBM
5 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
5 3 (16.67%) Veeam
6 2 (11.11%) Aruba
6 2 (11.11%) 3Com
6 2 (11.11%) Brocade
6 2 (11.11%) ProCurve
7 1 (5.556%) Juniper
7 1 (5.556%) Twitter