Load Balancing Contracts in Birmingham

Load Balancing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 71 86
Rank change year-on-year +20 +15 -23
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 14 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.84% 0.79% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 0.90% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile - £333 £416
25th Percentile £463 £363 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -
75th Percentile £591 £456 £441
90th Percentile £600 £468 £446
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £375 £450
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Load Balancing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 629 781 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.76% 88.05% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 522 884
10th Percentile £253 £275 £225
25th Percentile £375 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £594
90th Percentile £683 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +15.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 28 23
10th Percentile £13.19 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £26.00 £15.64 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +66.21% -10.51% -2.89%
75th Percentile £47.13 £27.85 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £66.88 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) WAN
2 7 (50.00%) Firewall
3 6 (42.86%) BGP
3 6 (42.86%) IPsec
3 6 (42.86%) Junos
3 6 (42.86%) MPLS
3 6 (42.86%) VPN
4 5 (35.71%) LAN
4 5 (35.71%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) German Language
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Network Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) WAN Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) Agile
1 2 (14.29%) API Management
1 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
1 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
1 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (14.29%) Migration
1 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
1 2 (14.29%) Time Management
2 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
2 1 (7.14%) Database Migration
2 1 (7.14%) DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (7.14%) High Availability
2 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.14%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Juniper
2 5 (35.71%) Aruba
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) F5