The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Balancing 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 112 126 113
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 6 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.333% 0.051% 0.244%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.438% 0.067% 0.357%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 2
Average salary £65,000 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+85.71% -22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1369 1493 1122
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 75.93% 76.21% 68.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1056 1313 954
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £60,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Balancing
North West

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Load Balancing Salary Trend

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Load Balancing across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire Load Balancing Salary Histogram

Load Balancing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the Cheshire region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 2 £55,000 -
Warrington +21 1 £50,000 +42.85%
Load Balancing
North West

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 8 (57.14%) Firewall
1 8 (57.14%) Wireless
2 7 (50.00%) DHCP
2 7 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (35.71%) Cisco
3 5 (35.71%) VPN
3 5 (35.71%) Internet
3 5 (35.71%) BGP
4 4 (28.57%) VLAN
4 4 (28.57%) Juniper
4 4 (28.57%) WAN
4 4 (28.57%) LAN
4 4 (28.57%) DMZ
5 3 (21.43%) Network Management
5 3 (21.43%) F5
5 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
5 3 (21.43%) Finance
6 2 (14.29%) Firmware
6 2 (14.29%) Sybase
6 2 (14.29%) CSS
6 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (14.29%) CCNP
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (7.143%) Foundry
7 1 (7.143%) vSphere
7 1 (7.143%) FWSM
7 1 (7.143%) CCEE
7 1 (7.143%) CCAA
7 1 (7.143%) CCIA

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (7.143%) Web Services
2 1 (7.143%) HTML
2 1 (7.143%) jQuery
2 1 (7.143%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) Apache
1 1 (7.143%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Firewall
1 8 (57.14%) Wireless
2 7 (50.00%) DHCP
2 7 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (35.71%) VPN
3 5 (35.71%) Internet
3 5 (35.71%) BGP
4 4 (28.57%) VLAN
4 4 (28.57%) WAN
4 4 (28.57%) LAN
4 4 (28.57%) DMZ
5 1 (7.143%) FWSM
5 1 (7.143%) DMVPN
5 1 (7.143%) NetScaler
5 1 (7.143%) SSL
5 1 (7.143%) 802.11
5 1 (7.143%) MPLS
5 1 (7.143%) OSPF
5 1 (7.143%) WLAN
5 1 (7.143%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (7.143%) MySQL
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Sybase DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (7.143%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.143%) PHP Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Web Applications Developer
4 1 (7.143%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Firmware
2 1 (7.143%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) Solaris
1 1 (7.143%) Linux
1 1 (7.143%) Ubuntu
1 1 (7.143%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Network Management
1 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
2 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.143%) OO
3 1 (7.143%) Time Management
3 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.143%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) C#
1 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.143%) PHP
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (7.143%) CCEE
2 1 (7.143%) CCAA
2 1 (7.143%) CCIA
2 1 (7.143%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (7.143%) CCEA
2 1 (7.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.143%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) vSphere
1 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.143%) XenApp
1 1 (7.143%) XenServer
1 1 (7.143%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Juniper
3 3 (21.43%) F5
4 2 (14.29%) Sybase
5 1 (7.143%) Foundry
5 1 (7.143%) HP
5 1 (7.143%) Citrix
5 1 (7.143%) IBM
5 1 (7.143%) Nokia
5 1 (7.143%) Veeam
5 1 (7.143%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.143%) VMware
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