The first table below looks at the demand for NLBS skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NLBS over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software category for the South West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Network Load Balancing Services (NLBS)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing NLBS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 - -
All System Software
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
419 376 454
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 7.987% 6.817% 7.745%
Number of salaries quoted 360 326 388
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £49,900
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
NLBS
England

NLBS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing NLBS 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 NLBS.

1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) DSL
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 2 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (100.00%) Xen
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management

NLBS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing NLBS 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 NLBS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) DSL
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 2 (100.00%) BIG-IP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Xen
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) VMware