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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 146 142 156
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 7 13 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.222% 0.376% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.300% 0.532% 0.113%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 3
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £35,000 £32,800
10% offered a salary of more than £39,500 £51,000 £37,200
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2333 2445 2660
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.13% 70.77% 76.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1403 1740 1920
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Load Balancing Salary Trend

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 Scotland 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
Aberdeen - 4 £40,000 -
Edinburgh +6 2 £35,000 -
Glasgow -23 1 - -
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 16 (48.48%) Oracle
2 14 (42.42%) SAN
3 12 (36.36%) Degree
4 11 (33.33%) Linux
5 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
5 10 (30.30%) Java
5 10 (30.30%) Firewall
5 10 (30.30%) Finance
6 9 (27.27%) Windows
6 9 (27.27%) Cisco
7 8 (24.24%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (24.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (21.21%) Data Guard
8 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
8 7 (21.21%) EMC
8 7 (21.21%) MySQL
8 7 (21.21%) SQL
8 7 (21.21%) VMware
8 7 (21.21%) Clustering
9 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (18.18%) ETL
9 6 (18.18%) NAS
9 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (15.15%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (15.15%) Capacity Management
10 5 (15.15%) LAN
10 5 (15.15%) WAN
10 5 (15.15%) Apache
10 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
10 5 (15.15%) Security Management

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 4 (12.12%) CSS
2 3 (9.091%) Servlets
3 2 (6.061%) XML
3 2 (6.061%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.061%) Java EE
4 1 (3.030%) jQuery
4 1 (3.030%) Grails
4 1 (3.030%) REST
4 1 (3.030%) EJB
4 1 (3.030%) .NET
4 1 (3.030%) J2EE
4 1 (3.030%) HTML
4 1 (3.030%) Web Services
4 1 (3.030%) JSP
4 1 (3.030%) CGI
4 1 (3.030%) AWT
4 1 (3.030%) JMS
4 1 (3.030%) J2SE
4 1 (3.030%) Swing
4 1 (3.030%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 5 (15.15%) Apache
2 4 (12.12%) Tomcat
2 4 (12.12%) MS Exchange
2 4 (12.12%) Lync
2 4 (12.12%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (6.061%) MQSeries
3 2 (6.061%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (6.061%) Jetty
4 1 (3.030%) GlassFish
4 1 (3.030%) nginx
4 1 (3.030%) IIS
4 1 (3.030%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.061%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 14 (42.42%) SAN
2 10 (30.30%) Firewall
3 6 (18.18%) NAS
4 5 (15.15%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (15.15%) LAN
4 5 (15.15%) WAN
5 4 (12.12%) Internet
5 4 (12.12%) NetScaler
6 3 (9.091%) Network Security
7 2 (6.061%) HTTP
7 2 (6.061%) VPN
8 1 (3.030%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (3.030%) iSCSI
8 1 (3.030%) FWSM
8 1 (3.030%) DNS
8 1 (3.030%) SMTP
8 1 (3.030%) OSPF
8 1 (3.030%) EIGRP
8 1 (3.030%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.21%) MySQL
3 3 (9.091%) RDBMS
3 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.061%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (6.061%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (6.061%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (3.030%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Selenium
1 1 (3.030%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (3.030%) MSBuild
1 1 (3.030%) Visual Studio
1 1 (3.030%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (3.030%) InstallShield
1 1 (3.030%) Bugzilla
1 1 (3.030%) Subversion
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 2 (6.061%) Investment Banking
2 2 (6.061%) Banking
3 1 (3.030%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.030%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) Administrator
2 5 (15.15%) Data Manager
2 5 (15.15%) Data Centre Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Infrastructure Designer
4 3 (9.091%) Designer
4 3 (9.091%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Network Administrator
5 2 (6.061%) SQL DBA
5 2 (6.061%) DBA
5 2 (6.061%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Teradata DBA
6 1 (3.030%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Senior Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Clustering
2 4 (12.12%) Thin Client
2 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (12.12%) Fat Client
3 3 (9.091%) Reference Data
4 2 (6.061%) Replication
4 2 (6.061%) Hedge funds
4 2 (6.061%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.030%) iPhone
5 1 (3.030%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.030%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Linux
2 9 (27.27%) Windows
3 8 (24.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (12.12%) Solaris
4 4 (12.12%) UNIX
4 4 (12.12%) CentOS
5 1 (3.030%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.030%) Android
5 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.030%) Windows 8
5 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (18.18%) ETL
2 5 (15.15%) Capacity Management
2 5 (15.15%) Security Management
3 4 (12.12%) Scrum
3 4 (12.12%) Service Delivery
3 4 (12.12%) ITIL
4 3 (9.091%) Performance Management
4 3 (9.091%) High Availability
4 3 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (9.091%) Change Control
4 3 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (9.091%) Service Management
4 3 (9.091%) Network Design
4 3 (9.091%) Asset Management
5 2 (6.061%) Software Engineering
5 2 (6.061%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (6.061%) Data Security
5 2 (6.061%) Migration
5 2 (6.061%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Java
2 7 (21.21%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) Perl
3 4 (12.12%) PHP
4 1 (3.030%) Groovy
4 1 (3.030%) Bash shell
4 1 (3.030%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.030%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.030%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.091%) CCNA
3 1 (3.030%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.030%) MCSE
3 1 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.030%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.030%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
4 4 (12.12%) vSphere
5 3 (9.091%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (6.061%) VMware ESX
7 1 (3.030%) Xen
7 1 (3.030%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.030%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Data Guard
2 4 (12.12%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Oracle
2 9 (27.27%) Cisco
3 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.21%) EMC
3 7 (21.21%) VMware
4 4 (12.12%) NetApp
4 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
4 4 (12.12%) Citrix
4 4 (12.12%) Sybase
4 4 (12.12%) Rackspace
5 3 (9.091%) F5
5 3 (9.091%) Veritas
5 3 (9.091%) HP
5 3 (9.091%) Dell
5 3 (9.091%) CheckPoint
6 2 (6.061%) Informatica
7 1 (3.030%) JBoss