The first table below looks at the demand for Load Balancing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 20 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Balancing
Rank 47 63 57
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -6
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 9 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.731% 0.162% 0.867%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.179% 0.242% 1.319%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
Average salary £55,000 - £67,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
413 413 379
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 79.42% 67.05% 65.68%
Number of salaries quoted 353 354 327
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +1.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £23,350
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Balancing
South Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Load Balancing Salary Trend

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Load Balancing across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Sheffield Load Balancing Salary Histogram

Load Balancing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 21 (80.77%) SQL
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
1 21 (80.77%) Windows Server 2003
1 21 (80.77%) Clustering
1 21 (80.77%) Windows Server 2008
2 20 (76.92%) SQL Server 2008
2 20 (76.92%) SQL Server 2005
2 20 (76.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 20 (76.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 20 (76.92%) Replication
2 20 (76.92%) Retail
2 20 (76.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 20 (76.92%) SQL Server
2 20 (76.92%) Windows 7
3 10 (38.46%) MS Excel
4 3 (11.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 3 (11.54%) Cisco
4 3 (11.54%) DNS
4 3 (11.54%) HP
4 3 (11.54%) Firewall
4 3 (11.54%) vSphere
5 2 (7.692%) CCEE
5 2 (7.692%) CCAA
5 2 (7.692%) CCIA
5 2 (7.692%) NetScaler
5 2 (7.692%) VRRP
5 2 (7.692%) Citrix
5 2 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (7.692%) CCEA

Load Balancing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 Platforms
1 1 (3.846%) MS Exchange
1 1 (3.846%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (3.846%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (3.846%) Lync
Applications
1 10 (38.46%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 2 (7.692%) VPN
2 2 (7.692%) VRRP
2 2 (7.692%) MPLS
2 2 (7.692%) OSPF
2 2 (7.692%) BGP
2 2 (7.692%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.846%) L2TP
3 1 (3.846%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (76.92%) SQL Server
1 20 (76.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 20 (76.92%) SQL Server 2005
1 20 (76.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 20 (76.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 20 (76.92%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 20 (76.92%) Retail
2 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) DBA
1 20 (76.92%) Administrator
1 20 (76.92%) SQL Server DBA
1 20 (76.92%) SQL DBA
1 20 (76.92%) Server Administrator
1 20 (76.92%) Teradata DBA
2 10 (38.46%) Senior SQL DBA
2 10 (38.46%) Senior DBA
2 10 (38.46%) Senior SQL Server DBA
3 3 (11.54%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 21 (80.77%) Clustering
2 20 (76.92%) Replication
3 1 (3.846%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
1 21 (80.77%) Windows Server 2003
1 21 (80.77%) Windows Server 2008
2 20 (76.92%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.846%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (3.846%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (3.846%) PRINCE2
1 1 (3.846%) Project Management
1 1 (3.846%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) SQL
2 1 (3.846%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (7.692%) MCITP
2 2 (7.692%) CCEE
2 2 (7.692%) CCAA
2 2 (7.692%) CCIA
2 2 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (7.692%) CCEA
2 2 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.846%) MCSE
3 1 (3.846%) CCNP
3 1 (3.846%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) vSphere
2 2 (7.692%) XenApp
2 2 (7.692%) XenServer
2 2 (7.692%) XenDesktop
2 2 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.846%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.846%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.846%) ISA Server
3 1 (3.846%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.846%) WSUS
1 1 (3.846%) SCCM
1 1 (3.846%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Cisco
1 3 (11.54%) HP
1 3 (11.54%) VMware
2 2 (7.692%) Citrix
2 2 (7.692%) IBM
2 2 (7.692%) Veeam
3 1 (3.846%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.846%) EMC
3 1 (3.846%) Juniper
3 1 (3.846%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.846%) Mitel