Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GLBP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GLBP over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 704 858
Rank change year-on-year +122 +154 -177
Contract jobs citing GLBP 9 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.005% 0.004%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.040% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £386 - £458
25th Percentile £400 £490 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% +6.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £508 £570 £530
90th Percentile £520 - £539
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £530 £490
% change year-on-year -24.53% +8.16% -24.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

GLBP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,718 7,429 9,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.10% 12.32% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,438 4,836 6,416
10th Percentile £205 £231 £227
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £604
90th Percentile £700 £721 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.76% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 494 363
10th Percentile £13.78 £9.80 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £60.66 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.12 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.39 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.76% -13.95% -11.34%

GLBP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GLBP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GLBP in the UK

GLBP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GLBP.

Daily rate trend for GLBP in the UK

GLBP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GLBP over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GLBP in the UK

GLBP
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GLBP within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +121 9 £443 -16.42%
London - 6 £486 -
UK excluding London +57 3 £400 -24.53%
South East +19 3 £400 -24.53%

GLBP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) HSRP
1 9 (100.00%) VRRP
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (66.67%) EIGRP
3 6 (66.67%) LAN
3 6 (66.67%) Network Security
3 6 (66.67%) OSPF
3 6 (66.67%) VLAN
3 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 6 (66.67%) VXLAN
3 6 (66.67%) WAN
4 5 (55.56%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (33.33%) IPsec
5 3 (33.33%) MPLS
5 3 (33.33%) SNMP
5 3 (33.33%) SSL
5 3 (33.33%) VPLS
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Switch Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) LAN Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Network Design
2 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 4 (44.44%) Network Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Supplier Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) Juniper
2 6 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) CheckPoint