Load Balancing Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Balancing over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Load Balancing UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	321	269	315
Rank change year-on-year	-52	+46
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing	306	469	382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.66%	0.87%	0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.78%	1.05%	0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	212	278	237
Median daily rate	£450	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+12.50%	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£310	£286
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£585	£550	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	16	13
Median hourly rate	£62.50	£39.00	£39.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+60.25%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£36.00	£35.50	£35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£66.50	£43.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£65.00	£39.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+66.66%	-2.50%

Load Balancing is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	39081	44816	45249
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	84.49%	83.35%	80.65%
Number of daily rates quoted	25486	29721	28985
Median daily rate	£450	£438	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1041	1082	1268
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.58	£12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.00	£49.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Load Balancing over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Load Balancing over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the UK over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-26	289	£450	+10.76%	92
London	-11	133	£536	+20.50%	27
South East	+16	58	£450	+20.00%	14
North West	+29	32	£450	-	12
City of London	+7	28	£585	+29.88%	7
Berkshire	+17	23	£450	+20.00%	1
Surrey	+15	19	£519	+33.87%	3
South West	+14	18	£365	-7.00%	3
Cheshire	+31	14	£450	-23.40%	6
Yorkshire	0	13	£395	-7.05%	13
Manchester	+18	12	£463	+28.47%	4
West Midlands	+12	12	£320	-17.41%	6
Tyne and Wear	+65	10	£320	-3.03%	3
North East	+46	10	£320	-3.03%	3
Croydon	+5	10	£463	+17.83%
Newcastle upon Tyne	+68	9	£323	-2.27%	2
West Sussex	+22	9	£395	+12.85%	1
Leeds	+9	9	£430	+1.17%	2
West Yorkshire	+2	9	£430	+1.17%	11
Warrington	+26	7	£550	-21.42%	3
Wiltshire	+10	7	£350	-12.50%	1
Crawley	+7	7	£395	-	1
Lancashire	+10	6	£488	+18.18%
Cardiff	+5	6	£280	-25.33%
Reading	+5	6	£525	+40.00%
Wales	+2	6	£280	-25.33%
South Wales	0	6	£280	-25.33%
Bristol	-	6	£410	-	1
Bracknell	-	5	-	-
Epsom	-	5	-	-	1

Load Balancing
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Load Balancing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Load Balancing.

1	278 (45.72%)	Linux
2	260 (42.76%)	Firewall
3	202 (33.22%)	DNS
4	185 (30.43%)	Cisco
5	160 (26.32%)	DevOps
6	151 (24.84%)	Amazon AWS
7	142 (23.36%)	F5
8	136 (22.37%)	WAN
9	131 (21.55%)	Agile Software Development
10	126 (20.72%)	Windows
11	119 (19.57%)	Java
12	118 (19.41%)	VMware
13	113 (18.59%)	TCP/IP
14	111 (18.26%)	Ansible
15	108 (17.76%)	Security Cleared

16	106 (17.43%)	Microsoft Azure
17	105 (17.27%)	Data Centre
17	105 (17.27%)	LAN
17	105 (17.27%)	Unix
18	104 (17.11%)	Microsoft
19	103 (16.94%)	Jenkins
20	100 (16.45%)	Puppet
21	99 (16.28%)	Git (software)
21	99 (16.28%)	Python
22	98 (16.12%)	Cisco Certification
23	94 (15.46%)	Apache
23	94 (15.46%)	VPN
24	93 (15.30%)	Configuration Management
25	90 (14.80%)	HTTP
25	90 (14.80%)	Docker

Load Balancing
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	94 (15.46%)	Apache
2	72 (11.84%)	Tomcat
3	58 (9.54%)	IIS
4	50 (8.22%)	nginx
5	37 (6.09%)	JBoss
6	31 (5.10%)	WebLogic
7	24 (3.95%)	WebSphere
8	23 (3.78%)	Confluence
8	23 (3.78%)	Elasticsearch
9	17 (2.80%)	iPlanet
9	17 (2.80%)	Oracle Application Server
10	13 (2.14%)	SharePoint
11	11 (1.81%)	OpenStack
12	10 (1.64%)	MS Exchange
13	8 (1.32%)	WebSphere Application Server
14	7 (1.15%)	Exchange Server 2007
14	7 (1.15%)	Exchange Server 2010
14	7 (1.15%)	Jetty
14	7 (1.15%)	WildFly
15	6 (0.99%)	Skype for Business

Applications
1	4 (0.66%)	Microsoft Excel
1	4 (0.66%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
2	2 (0.33%)	Microsoft Office
3	1 (0.16%)	Microsoft Project
3	1 (0.16%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	7 (1.15%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2	5 (0.82%)	BusinessWorks
3	4 (0.66%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	3 (0.49%)	Dynamics CRM
5	2 (0.33%)	Oracle EBS
6	1 (0.16%)	Dynamics AX
6	1 (0.16%)	Oracle Retail
6	1 (0.16%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	151 (24.84%)	Amazon AWS
2	106 (17.43%)	Microsoft Azure
3	23 (3.78%)	Amazon EC2
4	22 (3.62%)	IaaS
5	21 (3.45%)	Cloud Computing
6	19 (3.13%)	Amazon S3
6	19 (3.13%)	Virtual Private Cloud
7	17 (2.80%)	PaaS
8	15 (2.47%)	Office 365
9	14 (2.30%)	Amazon ELB
10	12 (1.97%)	Azure Active Directory
10	12 (1.97%)	SaaS
11	10 (1.64%)	Amazon CloudWatch
12	8 (1.32%)	OneDrive
13	7 (1.15%)	Akamai
13	7 (1.15%)	Slack
14	5 (0.82%)	Yammer
15	4 (0.66%)	GitHub
16	3 (0.49%)	Mimecast
16	3 (0.49%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	260 (42.76%)	Firewall
2	202 (33.22%)	DNS
3	136 (22.37%)	WAN
4	113 (18.59%)	TCP/IP
5	105 (17.27%)	LAN
6	94 (15.46%)	VPN
7	90 (14.80%)	HTTP
8	80 (13.16%)	SSL
9	68 (11.18%)	Cisco Nexus
10	64 (10.53%)	Wireless
11	62 (10.20%)	Network Security
12	59 (9.70%)	BGP
13	57 (9.38%)	NetScaler
14	52 (8.55%)	MPLS
15	48 (7.89%)	OSPF
16	47 (7.73%)	DHCP
17	44 (7.24%)	SAN
18	42 (6.91%)	Cisco ASA
19	34 (5.59%)	EIGRP
20	33 (5.43%)	Internet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	68 (11.18%)	SQL Server
2	54 (8.88%)	PostgreSQL
3	50 (8.22%)	MySQL
4	41 (6.74%)	MongoDB
5	20 (3.29%)	Amazon RDS
6	15 (2.47%)	Relational Database
7	14 (2.30%)	Apache Cassandra
7	14 (2.30%)	SQL Server 2012
8	12 (1.97%)	NoSQL
8	12 (1.97%)	Redis
8	12 (1.97%)	SQL Server 2014
9	10 (1.64%)	Azure SQL Database
9	10 (1.64%)	Hadoop
9	10 (1.64%)	Oracle Database
10	9 (1.48%)	SQL Server Integration Services
11	8 (1.32%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
12	7 (1.15%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
13	6 (0.99%)	BusinessObjects
14	5 (0.82%)	Amazon DynamoDB
14	5 (0.82%)	MariaDB

Development Applications
1	103 (16.94%)	Jenkins
2	99 (16.28%)	Git (software)
3	25 (4.11%)	Sonatype Nexus
4	24 (3.95%)	JIRA
5	21 (3.45%)	Team Foundation Server
6	18 (2.96%)	SonarQube
6	18 (2.96%)	Visual Studio
7	16 (2.63%)	Bitbucket
7	16 (2.63%)	Maven
8	15 (2.47%)	JUnit
9	14 (2.30%)	Subversion
10	12 (1.97%)	Artifactory
11	11 (1.81%)	Ant
11	11 (1.81%)	Liquibase
11	11 (1.81%)	TeamCity
12	10 (1.64%)	Octopus Deploy
13	5 (0.82%)	Hudson
13	5 (0.82%)	JMeter
13	5 (0.82%)	MSBuild
13	5 (0.82%)	Selenium

General
1	80 (13.16%)	Finance
2	37 (6.09%)	Banking
3	24 (3.95%)	Telecoms
4	18 (2.96%)	Retail
5	17 (2.80%)	Legal
6	13 (2.14%)	Investment Banking
7	11 (1.81%)	Law
8	9 (1.48%)	Marketing
9	7 (1.15%)	Back Office
10	5 (0.82%)	French Language
10	5 (0.82%)	Manufacturing
11	4 (0.66%)	Electronics
11	4 (0.66%)	Retail Banking
12	3 (0.49%)	Advertising
12	3 (0.49%)	Financial Institution
13	2 (0.33%)	Billing
13	2 (0.33%)	Publishing
14	1 (0.16%)	Aerospace
14	1 (0.16%)	Games

Job Titles
1	107 (17.60%)	Network Engineer
2	103 (16.94%)	DevOps Engineer
3	75 (12.34%)	Architect
4	47 (7.73%)	Consultant
5	45 (7.40%)	Developer
6	35 (5.76%)	Administrator
6	35 (5.76%)	AWS DevOps
6	35 (5.76%)	AWS Engineer
7	34 (5.59%)	Linux Engineer
8	29 (4.77%)	Cisco Engineer
9	28 (4.61%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
10	26 (4.28%)	Cisco Network Engineer
11	25 (4.11%)	Infrastructure Engineer
11	25 (4.11%)	Technical Architect
12	22 (3.62%)	Security Engineer
13	21 (3.45%)	Systems Administrator
14	19 (3.13%)	Analyst
14	19 (3.13%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
15	18 (2.96%)	Infrastructure Architect
15	18 (2.96%)	Unix Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	57 (9.38%)	Elastic Stack
2	55 (9.05%)	.NET
3	48 (7.89%)	Web Services
4	45 (7.40%)	REST
5	36 (5.92%)	Middleware
6	29 (4.77%)	Node.js
7	27 (4.44%)	SOAP
8	24 (3.95%)	CSS
9	22 (3.62%)	LAMP
9	22 (3.62%)	LAPP Stack
10	20 (3.29%)	J2EE
11	18 (2.96%)	HTML
11	18 (2.96%)	XML
12	17 (2.80%)	RabbitMQ
13	15 (2.47%)	LEMP Stack
14	14 (2.30%)	802.1X
14	14 (2.30%)	RESTful
15	13 (2.14%)	AngularJS
16	12 (1.97%)	HTML5
16	12 (1.97%)	Java EE

Miscellaneous
1	105 (17.27%)	Data Centre
2	57 (9.38%)	Analytical Skills
3	56 (9.21%)	Clustering
4	28 (4.61%)	Public Cloud
5	27 (4.44%)	Linux Command Line
6	16 (2.63%)	Management Information System
7	14 (2.30%)	Replication
8	13 (2.14%)	Enterprise Storage
9	12 (1.97%)	Greenfield Project
9	12 (1.97%)	Hybrid Cloud
9	12 (1.97%)	Private Cloud
9	12 (1.97%)	Video Conferencing
10	11 (1.81%)	Computer Science
11	9 (1.48%)	EMC VNX
11	9 (1.48%)	Enterprise Software
12	8 (1.32%)	Client/Server
12	8 (1.32%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
12	8 (1.32%)	PKI
13	7 (1.15%)	BBC
14	5 (0.82%)	Mainframe

Operating Systems
1	278 (45.72%)	Linux
2	126 (20.72%)	Windows
3	105 (17.27%)	Unix
4	56 (9.21%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	50 (8.22%)	Windows Server
6	43 (7.07%)	CentOS
7	39 (6.41%)	Solaris
8	31 (5.10%)	AIX
9	30 (4.93%)	Windows Server 2008
10	29 (4.77%)	Ubuntu
11	24 (3.95%)	HPUX
12	23 (3.78%)	SUSE
12	23 (3.78%)	Windows Server 2012
13	16 (2.63%)	Windows Server 2003
14	9 (1.48%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15	8 (1.32%)	Data ONTAP
16	7 (1.15%)	Oracle Linux
17	4 (0.66%)	VMS
18	3 (0.49%)	Windows 7
18	3 (0.49%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	160 (26.32%)	DevOps
2	131 (21.55%)	Agile Software Development
3	93 (15.30%)	Configuration Management
4	87 (14.31%)	High Availability
5	86 (14.14%)	ITIL
6	69 (11.35%)	Continuous Integration
7	55 (9.05%)	Continuous Delivery
8	54 (8.88%)	Migration
9	52 (8.55%)	Network Design
10	42 (6.91%)	Microservices
11	38 (6.25%)	Disaster Recovery
12	35 (5.76%)	Open Source
13	34 (5.59%)	Scrum
14	30 (4.93%)	Change Management
15	29 (4.77%)	E-Commerce
16	27 (4.44%)	Service Management
16	27 (4.44%)	Task Automation
17	26 (4.28%)	Stakeholder Management
18	25 (4.11%)	Software Engineering
19	21 (3.45%)	Test Automation

Programming Languages
1	119 (19.57%)	Java
2	99 (16.28%)	Python
3	72 (11.84%)	PowerShell
4	69 (11.35%)	Bash Shell
4	69 (11.35%)	SQL
5	59 (9.70%)	Perl
6	54 (8.88%)	Ruby
7	39 (6.41%)	JavaScript
8	24 (3.95%)	Shell Script
9	23 (3.78%)	T-SQL
10	22 (3.62%)	C#
11	21 (3.45%)	C
12	18 (2.96%)	Groovy
13	16 (2.63%)	PHP
14	7 (1.15%)	Korn
15	6 (0.99%)	C++
15	6 (0.99%)	Scala
16	5 (0.82%)	Go
17	3 (0.49%)	PL/SQL
17	3 (0.49%)	Tcl

Qualifications
1	108 (17.76%)	Security Cleared
2	98 (16.12%)	Cisco Certification
3	89 (14.64%)	SC Cleared
4	82 (13.49%)	CCNP
5	49 (8.06%)	CCNA
6	26 (4.28%)	CCIE
7	20 (3.29%)	Degree
8	12 (1.97%)	CCDP
8	12 (1.97%)	Microsoft Certification
9	11 (1.81%)	CISSP
10	10 (1.64%)	JNCIA
11	9 (1.48%)	MCSE
12	8 (1.32%)	DV Cleared
12	8 (1.32%)	JNCIS
13	7 (1.15%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
14	6 (0.99%)	Citrix Certification
14	6 (0.99%)	JNCIP
14	6 (0.99%)	SANS
15	5 (0.82%)	CISA
15	5 (0.82%)	ITIL Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	17 (2.80%)	PCI DSS
2	16 (2.63%)	QA
3	13 (2.14%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	9 (1.48%)	SLA
5	5 (0.82%)	COBIT
5	5 (0.82%)	FedRAMP
5	5 (0.82%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	4 (0.66%)	HIPAA
7	3 (0.49%)	Data Quality
7	3 (0.49%)	GDPR
8	1 (0.16%)	Disclosure Scotland

System Software
1	90 (14.80%)	Docker
2	77 (12.66%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	61 (10.03%)	Active Directory
4	39 (6.41%)	Virtual Machines
5	30 (4.93%)	VMware ESXi
6	27 (4.44%)	vSphere
7	23 (3.78%)	Hyper-V
8	18 (2.96%)	KVM
9	17 (2.80%)	XenApp
10	16 (2.63%)	NFS
10	16 (2.63%)	Veritas Volume Manager
11	14 (2.30%)	Xen
12	13 (2.14%)	vCloud
12	13 (2.14%)	Veritas Cluster Server
12	13 (2.14%)	Veritas File System
13	12 (1.97%)	Squid
14	11 (1.81%)	ProxySG
14	11 (1.81%)	Virtual Servers
15	10 (1.64%)	Postfix
15	10 (1.64%)	XenServer

Systems Management
1	111 (18.26%)	Ansible
2	100 (16.45%)	Puppet
3	56 (9.21%)	Kubernetes
3	56 (9.21%)	Opscode Chef
4	38 (6.25%)	logstash
5	36 (5.92%)	HAProxy
5	36 (5.92%)	Kibana
6	24 (3.95%)	Terraform
7	20 (3.29%)	Rancher
8	18 (2.96%)	Nagios
9	15 (2.47%)	ZABBIX
10	12 (1.97%)	Grafana
10	12 (1.97%)	NetBackup
11	11 (1.81%)	vRealize
12	10 (1.64%)	Docker Swarm
12	10 (1.64%)	Microsoft Clustering
12	10 (1.64%)	Rsyslog
12	10 (1.64%)	Sysdig
13	9 (1.48%)	Norton AntiVirus
14	8 (1.32%)	EMC Navisphere

Vendors
1	185 (30.43%)	Cisco
2	142 (23.36%)	F5
3	118 (19.41%)	VMware
4	104 (17.11%)	Microsoft
5	69 (11.35%)	CheckPoint
5	69 (11.35%)	Oracle
6	63 (10.36%)	Red Hat
7	62 (10.20%)	Citrix
8	52 (8.55%)	Juniper
9	38 (6.25%)	Palo Alto
10	37 (6.09%)	HP
11	33 (5.43%)	IBM
11	33 (5.43%)	Veritas
12	30 (4.93%)	NetApp
13	29 (4.77%)	Sun
14	25 (4.11%)	EMC
15	22 (3.62%)	Brocade
16	19 (3.13%)	Dell
17	17 (2.80%)	Fortinet
17	17 (2.80%)	Splunk