The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 265 231 254
Rank change year-on-year
-34 +23
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 52 97 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.446% 0.738% 0.535%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.571% 0.964% 0.710%
Number of salaries quoted 46 88 77
Average salary £58,750 £55,750 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.38% +23.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £45,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9102 10067 11556
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.98% 76.57% 75.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7833 9132 10306
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £36,000 £36,500
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Balancing
London

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Load Balancing Salary Trend

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

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

City of London Load Balancing Salary Histogram

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 76 (44.71%) Linux
2 64 (37.65%) Cisco
3 50 (29.41%) Java
3 50 (29.41%) Firewall
4 49 (28.82%) Finance
5 46 (27.06%) Juniper
6 45 (26.47%) Windows
7 44 (25.88%) F5
8 43 (25.29%) SQL
9 38 (22.35%) UNIX
10 37 (21.76%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (21.18%) DNS
12 35 (20.59%) TCP/IP
13 34 (20.00%) Perl
14 33 (19.41%) VMware
15 32 (18.82%) LAN
16 31 (18.24%) Oracle
16 31 (18.24%) Red Hat
17 30 (17.65%) Bash shell
18 29 (17.06%) Solaris
18 29 (17.06%) Clustering
19 28 (16.47%) Apache
19 28 (16.47%) Tomcat
19 28 (16.47%) XML
20 27 (15.88%) HTTP
21 26 (15.29%) CCNP
22 25 (14.71%) Microsoft
22 25 (14.71%) WAN
22 25 (14.71%) Windows Server 2008
23 24 (14.12%) Internet

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 28 (16.47%) XML
2 17 (10.00%) Web Services
3 16 (9.412%) .NET
4 14 (8.235%) Middleware
5 12 (7.059%) WebSphere
5 12 (7.059%) SOAP
6 11 (6.471%) J2EE
6 11 (6.471%) REST
7 9 (5.294%) HTML
7 9 (5.294%) XSLT
8 8 (4.706%) J2SE
8 8 (4.706%) Java EE
8 8 (4.706%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (4.706%) XML Schema
9 7 (4.118%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.353%) LAMP
11 3 (1.765%) JMX
11 3 (1.765%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (1.765%) Silverlight
11 3 (1.765%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 28 (16.47%) Apache
1 28 (16.47%) Tomcat
2 15 (8.824%) IIS
3 8 (4.706%) WebLogic
3 8 (4.706%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.706%) iPlanet
3 8 (4.706%) GlassFish
4 6 (3.529%) ESB
4 6 (3.529%) SharePoint 2010
5 5 (2.941%) Lync
6 3 (1.765%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.765%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.765%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (1.765%) Confluence
6 3 (1.765%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.176%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.176%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.176%) CloudStack
7 2 (1.176%) CMS
7 2 (1.176%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 16 (9.412%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 50 (29.41%) Firewall
2 36 (21.18%) DNS
3 35 (20.59%) TCP/IP
4 32 (18.82%) LAN
5 27 (15.88%) HTTP
6 25 (14.71%) WAN
7 24 (14.12%) Internet
8 23 (13.53%) VPN
9 22 (12.94%) Network Security
10 20 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
11 18 (10.59%) LDAP
12 17 (10.00%) SAN
12 17 (10.00%) Wireless
13 15 (8.824%) Cisco Nexus
13 15 (8.824%) SSL
13 15 (8.824%) BGP
14 14 (8.235%) MPLS
14 14 (8.235%) OSPF
15 13 (7.647%) NAS
16 12 (7.059%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.53%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.824%) SQL Server 2008
2 15 (8.824%) MySQL
3 11 (6.471%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (4.706%) RDBMS
4 8 (4.706%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (4.118%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.353%) ObjectStore
7 2 (1.176%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.588%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.588%) OLAP
8 1 (0.588%) OLTP
8 1 (0.588%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (0.588%) Essbase
8 1 (0.588%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.588%) QlikView
8 1 (0.588%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.588%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (0.588%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.588%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 13 (7.647%) Subversion
2 3 (1.765%) JIRA
3 2 (1.176%) Maven
3 2 (1.176%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.588%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (28.82%) Finance
2 21 (12.35%) Banking
3 6 (3.529%) Telecoms
4 5 (2.941%) Law
5 4 (2.353%) Games
5 4 (2.353%) Retail
5 4 (2.353%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.176%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.176%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.176%) Back Office
7 1 (0.588%) Advertising
7 1 (0.588%) Publishing
7 1 (0.588%) Music
7 1 (0.588%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 46 (27.06%) Architect
2 22 (12.94%) Network Engineer
3 18 (10.59%) Administrator
4 16 (9.412%) Analyst
5 14 (8.235%) Systems Administrator
6 13 (7.647%) Consultant
6 13 (7.647%) Linux Administrator
7 12 (7.059%) Security Architect
8 11 (6.471%) Infrastructure Architect
9 10 (5.882%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (5.294%) Senior UNIX Engineer
10 9 (5.294%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 9 (5.294%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 9 (5.294%) UNIX Engineer
10 9 (5.294%) Network Architect
10 9 (5.294%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 8 (4.706%) SQL DBA
11 8 (4.706%) SQL Server DBA
11 8 (4.706%) DBA
11 8 (4.706%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.06%) Clustering
2 13 (7.647%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (5.882%) Video on Demand
3 10 (5.882%) Enterprise Storage
4 9 (5.294%) SaaS
4 9 (5.294%) New Media
4 9 (5.294%) Computer Science
4 9 (5.294%) PKI
4 9 (5.294%) Streaming Media
4 9 (5.294%) Replication
5 6 (3.529%) Open Source
6 4 (2.353%) Web 2.0
6 4 (2.353%) Derivative
6 4 (2.353%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.353%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.765%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.765%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.176%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.588%) iPhone
9 1 (0.588%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 76 (44.71%) Linux
2 45 (26.47%) Windows
3 38 (22.35%) UNIX
4 29 (17.06%) Solaris
5 25 (14.71%) Windows Server 2008
6 20 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (10.59%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (7.059%) Ubuntu
9 11 (6.471%) CentOS
10 9 (5.294%) Oracle Linux
10 9 (5.294%) FreeBSD
11 5 (2.941%) Debian
12 2 (1.176%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.588%) Windows Phone
13 1 (0.588%) Windows NT
13 1 (0.588%) VMS
13 1 (0.588%) Windows 2000
13 1 (0.588%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.588%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.588%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (11.76%) E-Commerce
2 19 (11.18%) ITIL
3 17 (10.00%) SOA
3 17 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 17 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (8.824%) Change Control
4 15 (8.824%) OO
5 14 (8.235%) Release Management
6 13 (7.647%) Network Design
6 13 (7.647%) Migration
6 13 (7.647%) Configuration Management
7 11 (6.471%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (6.471%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (5.882%) Scrum
8 10 (5.882%) Service Management
9 9 (5.294%) Workflow
9 9 (5.294%) Project Management
9 9 (5.294%) UML
9 9 (5.294%) OOA/OOD
9 9 (5.294%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (29.41%) Java
2 43 (25.29%) SQL
3 34 (20.00%) Perl
4 30 (17.65%) Bash shell
5 22 (12.94%) Python
6 16 (9.412%) PHP
7 12 (7.059%) Ruby
8 10 (5.882%) T-SQL
9 9 (5.294%) AWK
9 9 (5.294%) sed
10 7 (4.118%) C
11 5 (2.941%) C#
11 5 (2.941%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.353%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.765%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.765%) VBScript
14 2 (1.176%) Scala
15 1 (0.588%) XPath
15 1 (0.588%) Tcl
15 1 (0.588%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (21.76%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (15.29%) CCNP
3 15 (8.824%) CCIE
4 10 (5.882%) Degree
5 9 (5.294%) CCNA
6 8 (4.706%) RHCE
7 6 (3.529%) CCIP
8 5 (2.941%) CCDP
9 4 (2.353%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.765%) CCSA
10 3 (1.765%) CCSE
10 3 (1.765%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.765%) MCITP
11 2 (1.176%) MCSE
11 2 (1.176%) MCTS
12 1 (0.588%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.588%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.588%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.588%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.765%) QA
2 2 (1.176%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.588%) SLA
3 1 (0.588%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (8.824%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.647%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.882%) XenApp
4 9 (5.294%) vSphere
5 8 (4.706%) Forefront TMG
6 6 (3.529%) UAG
7 4 (2.353%) Xen
8 2 (1.176%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.588%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.588%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (8.824%) Nagios
1 15 (8.824%) Puppet
2 12 (7.059%) Zenoss
3 10 (5.882%) Cacti
4 9 (5.294%) NetBackup
5 5 (2.941%) SCCM
6 3 (1.765%) HP NNM
7 2 (1.176%) CiscoWorks
7 2 (1.176%) Tivoli
7 2 (1.176%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.588%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.588%) WMI
Vendors
1 64 (37.65%) Cisco
2 46 (27.06%) Juniper
3 44 (25.88%) F5
4 33 (19.41%) VMware
5 31 (18.24%) Red Hat
5 31 (18.24%) Oracle
6 25 (14.71%) Microsoft
7 18 (10.59%) EMC
8 17 (10.00%) Sun
9 13 (7.647%) JBoss
10 12 (7.059%) Brocade
10 12 (7.059%) Akamai
11 11 (6.471%) CheckPoint
11 11 (6.471%) Blue Coat
11 11 (6.471%) HP
12 10 (5.882%) Riverbed
13 9 (5.294%) Sybase
14 8 (4.706%) Citrix
14 8 (4.706%) Pega
15 7 (4.118%) NetApp
City, London
Network Security Specialist - Checkpoint, Cisco - Barbican, London - £48,000 + bonus... To be suitable for this position you will be a highly motivated self starter with enterprise network experience...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £45000 - £48000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Background: A leading Network Vendor is looking for a Pre-sales System Engineer to join the ever expanding team... This will be a chance to work with some...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
Candidates who have experience of working in a scientific, research or higher education environment are highly desirable.Cisco Network Analyst Role*Support the design, implementation, operation, sustainability and...
Sand Resources
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
City of London
Senior Linux systems administrator urgently required by the leading Online Music Download organisation!!... The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Linux systems administrator urgently required by the leading Online Music Download organisation!!... The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so any...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 25 April 2013
City, London
The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so any experience with either of these two flavours would be seen as VERY...
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Principal Consultant - Unified Communications & Collaboration... *Cisco and Microsoft pre-sales, design and delivery experience *Excellent communication skills; both written and oral... *Experience of working within a number of...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £65000 - £70000 per annum + Car Allowance + Bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Network Engineer opportunities have arisen across the multiple projects that are in place and allow my client to look suitable candidates from CCNP through to CCIE level... From...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum + Package
Posted: 17 May 2013