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The table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills within the England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkLoad Balancing
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank453443
Rank change on same period last yearDown-10
Matching permanent IT job ads538727
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.298 %0.305 %
As % of the category below0.534 %0.586 %
Salaries quoted421557
Average minimum salary£44,650£40,853
Average salary£47,325£43,566
% change on same period last year+8.62 %
Average maximum salary£50,000£46,278
UK excluding London average salary£42,261£43,657
% change on same period last year-3.19 %
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
England
Matching permanent IT job ads100703123990
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled55.72 %52.00 %
Salaries quoted8312099449
Average minimum salary£42,893£44,367
Average salary£46,933£48,398
% change on same period last year-3.02 %
Average maximum salary£50,974£52,430
UK excluding London average salary£42,540£44,374
% change on same period last year-4.13 %
Load Balancing UKLoad Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Load Balancing across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Load Balancing Demand Trend

Load Balancing
Salary Trend

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

England Load Balancing Salary Trend

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Load Balancing across the England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+55264£52,271+19.59 %
South EastDown-104126£43,934-0.61 %
West MidlandsUp+2851£49,375+15.35 %
YorkshireUp+2746£35,564+10.56 %
South WestUp+2544£41,880-1.09 %
North WestUp+185£34,550-3.69 %
East MidlandsNew entry-2£31,000-
East of EnglandDown-291£30,000-37.31 %
Load Balancing UKLoad Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

1520 (47.49 %)Firewall
2466 (42.56 %)Cisco
3333 (30.41 %)TCP/IP
4320 (29.22 %)Linux
5303 (27.67 %)Windows
6296 (27.03 %)UNIX
7275 (25.11 %)Cisco Certification
8251 (22.92 %)Internet
9249 (22.74 %)WAN
10242 (22.10 %)DNS
11238 (21.74 %)Clustering
12197 (17.99 %)LAN
13196 (17.90 %)Solaris
14193 (17.63 %)Active Directory
15184 (16.80 %)CCNP
16167 (15.25 %)SAN
17166 (15.16 %)IIS
18162 (14.79 %)Apache
19158 (14.43 %)Finance
19158 (14.43 %)SQL Server
19158 (14.43 %)Microsoft
20155 (14.16 %)Windows Server 2003
21150 (13.70 %)VPN
22147 (13.42 %)Oracle
23145 (13.24 %)CheckPoint
24142 (12.97 %)BGP
24142 (12.97 %)Cisco PIX
25135 (12.33 %)CCNA
26131 (11.96 %)MPLS
26131 (11.96 %)Perl

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
171 (6.484 %)XML
262 (5.662 %)WebSphere
355 (5.023 %)J2EE
446 (4.201 %)CSS
544 (4.018 %)HTML
544 (4.018 %).NET
642 (3.836 %)WebServices
715 (1.370 %)ASP.NET
814 (1.279 %)Middleware
910 (0.913 %)Application Packaging
109 (0.822 %)WAP
118 (0.731 %)LAMP
127 (0.639 %)AJAX
127 (0.639 %)XSLT
127 (0.639 %)SOAP
136 (0.548 %)XHTML
136 (0.548 %)ASP
144 (0.365 %)COM+
153 (0.274 %)MAPI
153 (0.274 %).NET Framework
England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1166 (15.16 %)IIS
2162 (14.79 %)Apache
366 (6.027 %)Tomcat
461 (5.571 %)MS Exchange
554 (4.932 %)JBoss
642 (3.836 %)Exchange Server 2003
740 (3.653 %)SharePoint
835 (3.196 %)WebLogic
917 (1.553 %)WebSphere Application Server
1013 (1.187 %)Exchange Server 2000
1112 (1.096 %)BizTalk Server
1210 (0.913 %)WebLogic Portal
139 (0.822 %)Resin
139 (0.822 %)SharePoint Server 2007
139 (0.822 %)iPlanet
148 (0.731 %)CMS
157 (0.639 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
157 (0.639 %)Exchange Server 2007
166 (0.548 %)ColdFusion
174 (0.365 %)MQSeries
England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
168 (6.210 %)MS Excel
230 (2.740 %)MS Visio
35 (0.457 %)MS Office
England IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
18 (0.731 %)Oracle EBS
18 (0.731 %)Oracle Applications
18 (0.731 %)Oracle 11i
21 (0.091 %)WebTrends
21 (0.091 %)BusinessWorks
21 (0.091 %)SoftGrid
21 (0.091 %)Summit
21 (0.091 %)TIBCO iProcess
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1520 (47.49 %)Firewall
2333 (30.41 %)TCP/IP
3251 (22.92 %)Internet
4249 (22.74 %)WAN
5242 (22.10 %)DNS
6197 (17.99 %)LAN
7167 (15.25 %)SAN
8150 (13.70 %)VPN
9142 (12.97 %)BGP
9142 (12.97 %)Cisco PIX
10131 (11.96 %)MPLS
1198 (8.950 %)OSPF
1280 (7.306 %)VLAN
1376 (6.941 %)VoIP
1474 (6.758 %)Network Security
1565 (5.936 %)BIG-IP
1565 (5.936 %)SSL
1659 (5.388 %)LDAP
1757 (5.205 %)Ethernet
1854 (4.932 %)Cisco ASA
England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1158 (14.43 %)SQL Server
2114 (10.41 %)MySQL
342 (3.836 %)SQL Server 2005
441 (3.744 %)RDBMS
539 (3.562 %)DB2
634 (3.105 %)SQL Server 2000
711 (1.005 %)Oracle 8/8i
810 (0.913 %)Oracle 10g
96 (0.548 %)PostgreSQL
105 (0.457 %)Oracle Reports
113 (0.274 %)Datawarehouse
113 (0.274 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
122 (0.183 %)Data Mining
122 (0.183 %)Oracle 9i
131 (0.091 %)DTS
131 (0.091 %)Crystal Reports
131 (0.091 %)SQL Server 2008
England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
123 (2.100 %)WebLOAD
210 (0.913 %)Ant
39 (0.822 %)Subversion
44 (0.365 %)Visual Studio
53 (0.274 %)VSS/SourceSafe
61 (0.091 %)Flash
61 (0.091 %)FrontPage
England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1158 (14.43 %)Finance
2117 (10.68 %)Telecoms
3100 (9.132 %)Banking
448 (4.384 %)Pensions
538 (3.470 %)Health
616 (1.461 %)Education
713 (1.187 %)Marketing
812 (1.096 %)Insurance
911 (1.005 %)Law
1010 (0.913 %)Investment Banking
1010 (0.913 %)Retail
117 (0.639 %)Front Office
126 (0.548 %)Publishing
126 (0.548 %)Games
135 (0.457 %)Construction
135 (0.457 %)Back Office
144 (0.365 %)Financial Institution
144 (0.365 %)Government
144 (0.365 %)Online Betting
144 (0.365 %)FMCG
England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1211 (19.27 %)Network Engineer
2161 (14.70 %)Administrator
397 (8.858 %)Consultant
397 (8.858 %)Architect
485 (7.763 %)Systems Administrator
567 (6.119 %)Support Engineer
666 (6.027 %)Analyst
758 (5.297 %)Cisco Engineer
855 (5.023 %)Team Leader
953 (4.840 %)Systems Engineer
1050 (4.566 %)Linux Engineer
1149 (4.475 %)Linux Administrator
1244 (4.018 %)Infrastructure Engineer
1337 (3.379 %)Security Engineer
1435 (3.196 %)Technical Architect
1533 (3.014 %)Cisco Network Engineer
1632 (2.922 %)Network Security Engineer
1731 (2.831 %)Developer
1828 (2.557 %)Windows Administrator
1927 (2.466 %)Linux Systems Administrator
England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1238 (21.74 %)Clustering
219 (1.735 %)Replication
318 (1.644 %)Derivative
413 (1.187 %)Mainframe
511 (1.005 %)Blackberry
511 (1.005 %)PKI
610 (0.913 %)Computer Science
79 (0.822 %)Client/Server
87 (0.639 %)Management Information System
94 (0.365 %)NHS
94 (0.365 %)Multithreading
103 (0.274 %)EPoS
112 (0.183 %)N-Tier
121 (0.091 %)Firmware
121 (0.091 %)Thin Client
121 (0.091 %)AS400
121 (0.091 %)Spanish Language
121 (0.091 %)Fat Client
121 (0.091 %)Spread Betting
121 (0.091 %)Web 2.0
England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1320 (29.22 %)Linux
2303 (27.67 %)Windows
3296 (27.03 %)UNIX
4196 (17.90 %)Solaris
5155 (14.16 %)Windows Server 2003
689 (8.128 %)Red Hat Linux
760 (5.479 %)Debian
852 (4.749 %)Windows 2000 Server
937 (3.379 %)Windows 2000
1035 (3.196 %)CentOS
1035 (3.196 %)SUSE
1126 (2.374 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1216 (1.461 %)Fedora
1216 (1.461 %)AIX
1314 (1.279 %)Ubuntu
1410 (0.913 %)Windows XP
155 (0.457 %)Windows NT
162 (0.183 %)VMS
162 (0.183 %)Windows Vista
171 (0.091 %)Mac OS X
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
183 (7.580 %)ITIL
274 (6.758 %)E-Commerce
354 (4.932 %)Disaster Recovery
426 (2.374 %)Project Management
426 (2.374 %)Security Cleared
525 (2.283 %)Network Design
623 (2.100 %)Configuration Management
716 (1.461 %)SC Cleared
815 (1.370 %)Technical Architecture
913 (1.187 %)Incident Management
913 (1.187 %)Service Delivery
1012 (1.096 %)Web Development
1012 (1.096 %)Unit Testing
1110 (0.913 %)Change Management
1110 (0.913 %)OO
1110 (0.913 %)Content Management
129 (0.822 %)Risk Management
129 (0.822 %)User Acceptance Testing
138 (0.731 %)Wealth Management
138 (0.731 %)Workflow
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1131 (11.96 %)Perl
2128 (11.69 %)Java
3125 (11.42 %)SQL
463 (5.753 %)Shell Script
546 (4.201 %)Ruby
639 (3.562 %)Python
737 (3.379 %)PHP
825 (2.283 %)C
922 (2.009 %)C#
1019 (1.735 %)C++
1115 (1.370 %)VB
1214 (1.279 %)JavaScript
1313 (1.187 %)VBScript
1412 (1.096 %)PL/SQL
1511 (1.005 %)Transact-SQL
1511 (1.005 %)VB6
169 (0.822 %)PHP5
174 (0.365 %)PHP4
174 (0.365 %)Korn
174 (0.365 %)DHTML
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1275 (25.11 %)Cisco Certification
2184 (16.80 %)CCNP
3135 (12.33 %)CCNA
489 (8.128 %)Microsoft Certification
570 (6.393 %)CCIE
668 (6.210 %)MCSE
763 (5.753 %)Degree
849 (4.475 %)CCIP
945 (4.110 %)CCDP
1040 (3.653 %)CCSP
1119 (1.735 %)CCVP
1217 (1.553 %)CCSE
1316 (1.461 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1415 (1.370 %)JNCIA
1415 (1.370 %)CCSA
1415 (1.370 %)MCP
1415 (1.370 %)CCA
1415 (1.370 %)Citrix Certification
1514 (1.279 %)MCSA
1514 (1.279 %)JNCIS
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
150 (4.566 %)SLA
23 (0.274 %)ISO27001
23 (0.274 %)QA
31 (0.091 %)BS7799
31 (0.091 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1193 (17.63 %)Active Directory
252 (4.749 %)VMware Infrastructure
332 (2.922 %)Citrix Presentation Server
431 (2.831 %)MetaFrame
525 (2.283 %)Terminal Services
525 (2.283 %)ISA Server
623 (2.100 %)Squid
721 (1.918 %)NFS
819 (1.735 %)Oracle RAC
917 (1.553 %)NetBackup
1015 (1.370 %)Backup Exec
1113 (1.187 %)VMware Server
1212 (1.096 %)VMware Workstation
138 (0.731 %)Samba
138 (0.731 %)VMware ESX
145 (0.457 %)Xen
145 (0.457 %)MailMarshal
153 (0.274 %)MSMQ
161 (0.091 %)Snort
161 (0.091 %)ClearTrust
England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
120 (1.826 %)CiscoWorks
218 (1.644 %)Nagios
316 (1.461 %)OpenView
415 (1.370 %)Tivoli
513 (1.187 %)MOM
65 (0.457 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
72 (0.183 %)CA SiteMinder
72 (0.183 %)Tivoli NetView
72 (0.183 %)WSUS
81 (0.091 %)Legato
81 (0.091 %)Norton AntiVirus
England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1466 (42.56 %)Cisco
2158 (14.43 %)Microsoft
3147 (13.42 %)Oracle
4145 (13.24 %)CheckPoint
5106 (9.680 %)Citrix
6103 (9.406 %)VMware
778 (7.123 %)Red Hat
862 (5.662 %)Nokia
862 (5.662 %)HP
961 (5.571 %)Juniper
1049 (4.475 %)VERITAS
1049 (4.475 %)Sun
1148 (4.384 %)IBM
1240 (3.653 %)Blue Coat
1326 (2.374 %)Intel
1418 (1.644 %)Symantec
1516 (1.461 %)Nortel
1612 (1.096 %)Avaya
1711 (1.005 %)Perforce
1711 (1.005 %)Brocade