Load Balancing Contracts in Scotland

Load Balancing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 - 156
Rank change year-on-year - - -23
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 9 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% - 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile £408 - £411
25th Percentile £413 - £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £782 - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.01%
75th Percentile £830 - £528
90th Percentile - - £538
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,648 3,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.62% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,905 2,309
10th Percentile £230 £263 £244
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 48
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Glasgow - 5 £418 - 1
Edinburgh - 4 £830 -
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (44.44%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) LAN
1 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
1 4 (44.44%) Lead Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
1 4 (44.44%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Organisational Awareness
2 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
3 2 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Software Distribution
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Debt
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Management
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Perl
5 1 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CCNA
1 4 (44.44%) CCNP
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) Puppet
4 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) F5
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Splunk