Load Balancing Contracts in the South East

Load Balancing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 188 210
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 -62
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 16 36 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.62% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.69% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 33
10th Percentile £320 - £400
25th Percentile £363 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £651 £578
90th Percentile £585 £688 £675
England median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.50 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,713 5,219 6,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.93% 89.44% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,620 4,694
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 220 289
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.15 £16.11
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.15 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.08 £62.37
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley +2 7 £438 -8.85% 3
Buckinghamshire +28 4 £300 -37.50% 2
Surrey +7 3 £500 - 1
Kent +4 3 £394 +21.15%
Berkshire -17 2 £438 -23.91% 1
Hampshire +2 1 £550 -12.00% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £625 -
East Sussex - 1 £475 -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 7 (43.75%) WAN
3 6 (37.50%) BGP
3 6 (37.50%) VPN
4 5 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (31.25%) IPsec
4 5 (31.25%) LAN
4 5 (31.25%) MPLS
5 4 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (25.00%) Junos
5 4 (25.00%) OSPF
5 4 (25.00%) SAN
6 3 (18.75%) NetScaler
6 3 (18.75%) TACACS
6 3 (18.75%) Unified Communications
6 3 (18.75%) Wireless
6 3 (18.75%) WLAN
7 2 (12.50%) NGFW
7 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
7 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes Architect
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Architect
4 1 (6.25%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (25.00%) PKI
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
2 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (18.75%) Two-Factor Authentication
2 3 (18.75%) Web Filtering
3 2 (12.50%) Adaptive Security
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Information Management
3 2 (12.50%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (6.25%) Business Strategy
4 1 (6.25%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) CCNA
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) CCIE
5 1 (6.25%) CCNP
5 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
5 1 (6.25%) PMP
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) F5
2 7 (43.75%) SolarWinds
3 5 (31.25%) Juniper
3 5 (31.25%) Palo Alto
4 4 (25.00%) Meraki
4 4 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (18.75%) Citrix
5 3 (18.75%) Forcepoint
6 2 (12.50%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
7 1 (6.25%) Veeam