Load Balancing Contracts in England

Load Balancing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 316 368
Rank change year-on-year -7 +52 +30
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 218 374 488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.77% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.85% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 270 301
10th Percentile £325 £399 £413
25th Percentile £363 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £732 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £32.20 £28.20
25th Percentile - £46.38 £32.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% +1.25%
75th Percentile - - £49.75
90th Percentile - - £54.40
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% -42.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,523 43,947 64,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,648 30,851 45,725
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,554 1,761
10th Percentile £12.89 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
London -15 91 £500 -16.67% 27
West Midlands +63 56 £375 - 7
Midlands +58 56 £375 -16.67% 10
East of England +27 29 £517 -11.24% 4
South East -5 13 £425 -15.00% 10
North of England -36 13 £600 +14.29% 8
North West -24 12 £600 +14.29% 5
South West +8 10 £700 +41.77% 5
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 3
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.50%) IIS
2 9 (4.13%) Apache
3 7 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.21%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.29%) nginx
5 3 (1.38%) Confluence
5 3 (1.38%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.92%) Traefik
7 1 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Chatbot
1 5 (2.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (26.15%) Azure
2 36 (16.51%) AWS
3 16 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (6.88%) GCP
5 14 (6.42%) PaaS
6 7 (3.21%) Cloudflare
6 7 (3.21%) GitHub
6 7 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.83%) Akamai
9 4 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.83%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.83%) SaaS
9 4 (1.83%) Twilio
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.38%) BigCommerce
10 3 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (39.45%) Firewall
2 78 (35.78%) VPN
3 70 (32.11%) WAN
4 66 (30.28%) BGP
5 60 (27.52%) MPLS
6 52 (23.85%) DNS
7 48 (22.02%) IPsec
8 45 (20.64%) Junos
9 30 (13.76%) Network Security
10 23 (10.55%) DHCP
10 23 (10.55%) LAN
11 17 (7.80%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (6.88%) 5G
12 15 (6.88%) SD-WAN
12 15 (6.88%) TCP/IP
13 14 (6.42%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (6.42%) Wireshark
14 12 (5.50%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (5.50%) OSPF
14 12 (5.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.46%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.46%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.46%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.46%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.46%) MySQL
5 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.46%) Power BI
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (8.72%) Git
2 15 (6.88%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.59%) Artifactory
4 9 (4.13%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.21%) JIRA
6 6 (2.75%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.29%) Fiddler
8 4 (1.83%) GitLab
9 1 (0.46%) Ant
9 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.46%) JUnit
9 1 (0.46%) Maven
9 1 (0.46%) Mockito
9 1 (0.46%) TestNG
General
1 39 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.39%) Finance
3 12 (5.50%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.05%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.67%) Banking
6 7 (3.21%) Retail
7 6 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.29%) German Language
8 5 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Legal
9 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.38%) Marketing
11 2 (0.92%) Automotive
11 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (31.65%) Network Engineer
2 26 (11.93%) Senior
3 25 (11.47%) 3rd Line Support
3 25 (11.47%) Architect
4 23 (10.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 23 (10.55%) WAN Engineer
5 21 (9.63%) Network Support
6 15 (6.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.42%) Administrator
8 13 (5.96%) Support Engineer
8 13 (5.96%) Web Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Design Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Full Stack Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Network Architect
10 9 (4.13%) Network Design Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Java Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.88%) .NET
2 14 (6.42%) CSS
2 14 (6.42%) HTML
2 14 (6.42%) React
3 8 (3.67%) LDAP
4 6 (2.75%) Node.js
5 5 (2.29%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.29%) JWT
5 5 (2.29%) Middleware
5 5 (2.29%) SAML
6 4 (1.83%) JSON
6 4 (1.83%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.83%) Spring
6 4 (1.83%) Web Services
6 4 (1.83%) XML
6 4 (1.83%) YANG
7 3 (1.38%) JDBC
7 3 (1.38%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.38%) VML
7 3 (1.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.23%) PKI
2 26 (11.93%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.05%) Clustering
4 8 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.29%) IVR
7 4 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.83%) Replication
7 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.38%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.38%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.38%) Media Streaming
8 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.14%) Linux
2 25 (11.47%) Windows
3 11 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.13%) Unix
5 7 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.75%) Android
6 6 (2.75%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.75%) CentOS
7 5 (2.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.46%) VMS
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (27.98%) DevOps
2 42 (19.27%) Network Design
3 41 (18.81%) Agile
4 36 (16.51%) CI/CD
5 28 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (10.55%) Migration
7 21 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (9.17%) Software Engineering
9 15 (6.88%) Identity Management
10 13 (5.96%) Roadmaps
10 13 (5.96%) Test Automation
11 12 (5.50%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (5.05%) Computer Science
12 11 (5.05%) Network Virtualisation
13 10 (4.59%) Kanban
14 9 (4.13%) High Availability
14 9 (4.13%) ITIL
14 9 (4.13%) Scrum
14 9 (4.13%) Task Automation
15 8 (3.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.22%) Python
2 29 (13.30%) PowerShell
3 19 (8.72%) Java
4 16 (7.34%) SQL
5 15 (6.88%) Bash
6 12 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.13%) Go
8 7 (3.21%) C#
9 4 (1.83%) Bicep
9 4 (1.83%) Ruby
9 4 (1.83%) VBScript
10 3 (1.38%) C
10 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.38%) PHP
11 2 (0.92%) Scala
12 1 (0.46%) Groovy
12 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (33.03%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.01%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.26%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (7.80%) Degree
5 12 (5.50%) CCNP
6 10 (4.59%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.75%) CCNA
7 6 (2.75%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.29%) CCDP
8 5 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.83%) CCIE
10 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.46%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 1 (0.46%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.83%) GDPR
1 4 (1.83%) HIPAA
1 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
1 4 (1.83%) SOC 2
2 2 (0.92%) NCSC
3 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (8.72%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.50%) Docker
2 12 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.67%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (3.21%) VMware NSX
4 7 (3.21%) vSphere
5 5 (2.29%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.92%) PowerDNS
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (10.55%) Terraform
2 18 (8.26%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.96%) Ansible
4 12 (5.50%) Puppet
5 11 (5.05%) FortiGate
5 11 (5.05%) SCOM
6 8 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.21%) SCCM
8 5 (2.29%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.83%) Kibana
10 3 (1.38%) Istio
10 3 (1.38%) Podman
10 3 (1.38%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.38%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.92%) Consul
11 2 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.92%) Grafana
11 2 (0.92%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.92%) linkerd
11 2 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (28.44%) Cisco
2 57 (26.15%) Juniper
3 55 (25.23%) F5
4 31 (14.22%) Microsoft
5 20 (9.17%) Palo Alto
6 17 (7.80%) VMware
7 14 (6.42%) Aruba
8 13 (5.96%) Meraki
9 12 (5.50%) Fortinet
10 9 (4.13%) SolarWinds
11 8 (3.67%) Nokia
11 8 (3.67%) Splunk
12 7 (3.21%) Arista
12 7 (3.21%) CheckPoint
12 7 (3.21%) Oracle
13 6 (2.75%) Citrix
13 6 (2.75%) Genesys
13 6 (2.75%) Google
13 6 (2.75%) Infoblox
14 5 (2.29%) Zscaler