The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 24 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 73 - 91
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 14 0 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.210% - 1.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.701% - 1.418%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 11
Average salary £45,000 - £29,859
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 - £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 - £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
823 523 776
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 71.13% 72.94% 73.00%
Number of salaries quoted 693 465 702
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,350
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Balancing
South East

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Load Balancing Salary Trend

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Load Balancing across the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 24 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
Sevenoaks - 3 £42,500 -
Dartford - 2 £42,500 -
Chatham - 1 £72,500 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £55,000 -
Load Balancing
South East

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 15 (51.72%) Web Services
1 15 (51.72%) XML
1 15 (51.72%) XSLT
1 15 (51.72%) SOA
1 15 (51.72%) XML Schema
1 15 (51.72%) B2B
2 14 (48.28%) Informatica
2 14 (48.28%) ETL
2 14 (48.28%) Cognos
2 14 (48.28%) OOA/OOD
2 14 (48.28%) Business Objects
2 14 (48.28%) BODI
2 14 (48.28%) Marketing
3 12 (41.38%) Capacity Planning
3 12 (41.38%) Mainframe
4 11 (37.93%) CA Endevor
4 11 (37.93%) DB2
4 11 (37.93%) J2EE
4 11 (37.93%) Oracle
4 11 (37.93%) MQSeries
4 11 (37.93%) CICS
4 11 (37.93%) FTP
5 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
5 9 (31.03%) JCL
5 9 (31.03%) UML
5 9 (31.03%) COBOL
5 9 (31.03%) Oracle 11g
6 8 (27.59%) VLAN
6 8 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (27.59%) CCNP

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 15 (51.72%) Web Services
1 15 (51.72%) XML
1 15 (51.72%) XSLT
1 15 (51.72%) XML Schema
2 11 (37.93%) J2EE
3 5 (17.24%) CSS
4 4 (13.79%) JMX
4 4 (13.79%) JSF
4 4 (13.79%) JAX-WS
4 4 (13.79%) JAXB
4 4 (13.79%) EJB
5 2 (6.897%) Memcached
6 1 (3.448%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 11 (37.93%) MQSeries
1 11 (37.93%) CICS
2 4 (13.79%) MS Exchange
3 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
3 3 (10.34%) GlassFish
4 2 (6.897%) nginx
4 2 (6.897%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) FTP
2 8 (27.59%) VLAN
3 7 (24.14%) Firewall
4 5 (17.24%) Wireless
5 4 (13.79%) DNS
6 3 (10.34%) VoIP
6 3 (10.34%) HTTP
7 2 (6.897%) IPsec
7 2 (6.897%) VRRP
7 2 (6.897%) Network Security
7 2 (6.897%) iSCSI
7 2 (6.897%) SAN
7 2 (6.897%) Internet
7 2 (6.897%) OSPF
7 2 (6.897%) BGP
7 2 (6.897%) SMTP
7 2 (6.897%) SSL
7 2 (6.897%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.448%) WLAN
8 1 (3.448%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) BODI
2 11 (37.93%) DB2
3 9 (31.03%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.897%) MySQL
General
1 14 (48.28%) Marketing
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Architect
2 15 (51.72%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Network Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Team Leader
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Design Authority
5 3 (10.34%) Mainframe Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Network Support
5 3 (10.34%) Network Support Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.897%) Consultant
6 2 (6.897%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (6.897%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.897%) UNIX Consultant
6 2 (6.897%) Linux Consultant
6 2 (6.897%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Pre Sales Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.897%) Open Source
3 1 (3.448%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Solaris
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) UNIX
3 5 (17.24%) Windows
4 4 (13.79%) AIX
5 2 (6.897%) Debian
5 2 (6.897%) OpenBSD
5 2 (6.897%) Ubuntu
5 2 (6.897%) CentOS
5 2 (6.897%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) SOA
1 15 (51.72%) B2B
2 14 (48.28%) ETL
2 14 (48.28%) OOA/OOD
3 12 (41.38%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
4 9 (31.03%) UML
5 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (20.69%) Performance Management
7 4 (13.79%) Migration
8 3 (10.34%) Document Management
9 2 (6.897%) Configuration Management
10 1 (3.448%) Security Architecture
10 1 (3.448%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) JCL
1 9 (31.03%) COBOL
2 3 (10.34%) Java
3 2 (6.897%) PHP
3 2 (6.897%) SQL
4 1 (3.448%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (27.59%) CCNP
2 3 (10.34%) CCDP
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.897%) CCSP
4 1 (3.448%) CCIE
4 1 (3.448%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.897%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.34%) OpenSSO
4 2 (6.897%) Squid
4 2 (6.897%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.448%) NFS
5 1 (3.448%) Snort
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Informatica
1 14 (48.28%) Cognos
1 14 (48.28%) Business Objects
2 11 (37.93%) Oracle
3 8 (27.59%) Cisco
4 7 (24.14%) F5
5 6 (20.69%) VMware
6 5 (17.24%) CheckPoint
7 4 (13.79%) Citrix
8 3 (10.34%) Sun
8 3 (10.34%) Juniper
8 3 (10.34%) Blue Coat
9 2 (6.897%) Red Hat
10 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
10 1 (3.448%) Riverbed
10 1 (3.448%) Foundry
10 1 (3.448%) Sourcefire