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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 123 117 93
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -24
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 23 17 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.876% 0.806% 1.217%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.113% 1.019% 1.663%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 8
Average salary £31,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.42% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2067 1669 1323
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 78.71% 79.10% 73.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1628 1430 1125
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Balancing
West Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Load Balancing Salary Trend

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

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

Leeds Load Balancing Salary Histogram

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 24 (51.06%) Cisco
2 22 (46.81%) SAN
3 19 (40.43%) Windows
4 16 (34.04%) DMZ
5 15 (31.91%) Citrix
5 15 (31.91%) Finance
5 15 (31.91%) VMware
6 14 (29.79%) CheckPoint
7 13 (27.66%) WAN
7 13 (27.66%) LAN
7 13 (27.66%) TCP/IP
8 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
8 12 (25.53%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (25.53%) Firewall
9 9 (19.15%) Linux
9 9 (19.15%) SQL
9 9 (19.15%) Change Management
9 9 (19.15%) VLAN
10 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (17.02%) IIS
10 8 (17.02%) C++
10 8 (17.02%) Web Services
10 8 (17.02%) ITIL
10 8 (17.02%) HP
10 8 (17.02%) XenApp
10 8 (17.02%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (17.02%) vSphere
10 8 (17.02%) F5
11 7 (14.89%) Bash shell
11 7 (14.89%) Active Directory

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 8 (17.02%) Web Services
2 7 (14.89%) COM+
2 7 (14.89%) .NET
2 7 (14.89%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.128%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 8 (17.02%) IIS
2 5 (10.64%) Apache
3 3 (6.383%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (6.383%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.383%) MS Exchange
4 2 (4.255%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.255%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (2.128%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.128%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 3 (6.383%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (46.81%) SAN
2 16 (34.04%) DMZ
3 13 (27.66%) WAN
3 13 (27.66%) LAN
3 13 (27.66%) TCP/IP
4 12 (25.53%) Firewall
5 9 (19.15%) VLAN
6 7 (14.89%) Internet
6 7 (14.89%) VPN
6 7 (14.89%) BIG-IP
7 6 (12.77%) MPLS
7 6 (12.77%) NAS
8 5 (10.64%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (10.64%) DNS
8 5 (10.64%) SSL
8 5 (10.64%) Cisco PIX
9 4 (8.511%) NetScaler
10 3 (6.383%) VoIP
10 3 (6.383%) DHCP
10 3 (6.383%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.511%) MySQL
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Architect
2 8 (17.02%) Analyst
2 8 (17.02%) Network Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Operations Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Support Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Applications Support
4 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Consultant
5 4 (8.511%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (8.511%) Administrator
5 4 (8.511%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (8.511%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (8.511%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (8.511%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.383%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (6.383%) UNIX Engineer
6 3 (6.383%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.383%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.255%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 2 (4.255%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.511%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (4.255%) Clustering
2 2 (4.255%) CMDB
2 2 (4.255%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.128%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.128%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (40.43%) Windows
2 9 (19.15%) Linux
3 5 (10.64%) CentOS
3 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.64%) Debian
4 4 (8.511%) UNIX
5 2 (4.255%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (4.255%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.15%) Change Management
2 8 (17.02%) ITIL
2 8 (17.02%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (14.89%) OO
3 7 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (14.89%) Time Management
4 2 (4.255%) Information Security
4 2 (4.255%) Project Management
5 1 (2.128%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) SQL
2 8 (17.02%) C++
3 7 (14.89%) Bash shell
3 7 (14.89%) C#
3 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.77%) Perl
5 4 (8.511%) Python
5 4 (8.511%) PHP
6 3 (6.383%) Java
7 1 (2.128%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (10.64%) CCNA
2 5 (10.64%) MCITP
3 4 (8.511%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (8.511%) CCIE
3 4 (8.511%) Citrix Certification
3 4 (8.511%) CCEA
3 4 (8.511%) CCEE
3 4 (8.511%) CCAA
3 4 (8.511%) CCIA
4 2 (4.255%) MCSE
4 2 (4.255%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.255%) CCNP
4 2 (4.255%) CCDP
5 1 (2.128%) MCSA
5 1 (2.128%) Degree
5 1 (2.128%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.128%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (17.02%) XenApp
1 8 (17.02%) vSphere
2 7 (14.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.89%) Terminal Services
3 5 (10.64%) XenServer
4 4 (8.511%) XenDesktop
5 3 (6.383%) Xen
6 1 (2.128%) NFS
6 1 (2.128%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (8.511%) SolarWinds Orion
2 3 (6.383%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Cisco
2 15 (31.91%) Citrix
2 15 (31.91%) VMware
3 14 (29.79%) CheckPoint
4 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
5 8 (17.02%) HP
5 8 (17.02%) F5
6 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
7 4 (8.511%) ProCurve
7 4 (8.511%) IBM
7 4 (8.511%) Avaya
7 4 (8.511%) Veeam
7 4 (8.511%) SolarWinds
8 3 (6.383%) NetApp
8 3 (6.383%) JBoss
9 2 (4.255%) Juniper
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Advanced PHP and Perl scripting ability... Good virtualisation and storage background; knowledge of Xen or Citrix XenServer, RAID, iSCSI and SAN/NAS solutions... Excellent knowledge of networking, protocols (...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £32000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
As an Operations Engineer you will provide operational support of Windows Servers, SAN and the data centre infrastructure... Understanding of networking principles, including switching, routing, load balancing, firewalling...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £23,000 to £27,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Operation and configuration of infrastructure services, including Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft System Centre Suite... Understanding of networking principles, including switching,...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013