Load Balancing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 303 313
Rank change year-on-year +56 +10 -22
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 139 154 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.66% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.73% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 115 121
10th Percentile - £288 £400
25th Percentile £363 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +11.58%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £638
90th Percentile - £688 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.20
25th Percentile - - £32.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £40.50
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% -44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
West Midlands +70 58 £375 - 8
Midlands +67 58 £375 -16.67% 11
East of England +32 30 £500 -9.09% 4
South West +24 17 £600 +21.52% 5
South East -13 14 £450 -10.00% 10
North of England -34 13 £600 +9.09% 7
North West -31 12 £600 +9.09% 4
Scotland - 7 £782 - 1
Yorkshire +16 1 - - 3
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (9.35%) IIS
2 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.44%) nginx
3 2 (1.44%) Traefik
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (2.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.39%) Azure
2 9 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.32%) AWS
4 4 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.16%) BigCommerce
5 3 (2.16%) GCP
6 2 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.44%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) IaaS
7 1 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (52.52%) VPN
2 69 (49.64%) WAN
3 53 (38.13%) Firewall
4 50 (35.97%) BGP
5 49 (35.25%) IPsec
5 49 (35.25%) MPLS
6 47 (33.81%) Junos
7 20 (14.39%) DNS
8 19 (13.67%) LAN
8 19 (13.67%) Network Security
9 12 (8.63%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (7.91%) SAN
11 10 (7.19%) 4G
11 10 (7.19%) 5G
12 9 (6.47%) SD-WAN
13 7 (5.04%) DHCP
14 6 (4.32%) TCP/IP
15 5 (3.60%) NetScaler
15 5 (3.60%) Remote Desktop
15 5 (3.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.16%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.16%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.16%) Git
2 3 (2.16%) JIRA
2 3 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.44%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.44%) GitLab
4 1 (0.72%) JUnit
4 1 (0.72%) Mockito
4 1 (0.72%) TestNG
General
1 20 (14.39%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.79%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.47%) Finance
4 6 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.88%) German Language
5 4 (2.88%) Legal
6 3 (2.16%) Marketing
6 3 (2.16%) Retail
7 2 (1.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.72%) Automotive
8 1 (0.72%) Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (31.65%) Network Engineer
2 25 (17.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 25 (17.99%) 3rd Line Support
2 25 (17.99%) WAN Engineer
3 21 (15.11%) Network Support
4 13 (9.35%) Support Engineer
5 12 (8.63%) Architect
6 10 (7.19%) Senior
7 9 (6.47%) Administrator
7 9 (6.47%) Full Stack Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) Java Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Network Design Specialist
10 6 (4.32%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Network Specialist
10 6 (4.32%) Senior Java Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.63%) CSS
1 12 (8.63%) HTML
1 12 (8.63%) React
2 9 (6.47%) .NET
3 4 (2.88%) Spring
4 3 (2.16%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.16%) JDBC
4 3 (2.16%) JPA
4 3 (2.16%) JWT
4 3 (2.16%) SAML
4 3 (2.16%) VML
4 3 (2.16%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.44%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.44%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.44%) REST
6 1 (0.72%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.72%) Middleware
6 1 (0.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (40.29%) PKI
2 14 (10.07%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.16%) Clustering
3 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.72%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.07%) Windows
2 11 (7.91%) Linux
2 11 (7.91%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.32%) CentOS
3 6 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.74%) Network Design
2 29 (20.86%) DevOps
3 25 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (15.11%) Agile
5 17 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (10.79%) CI/CD
7 14 (10.07%) Software Engineering
8 12 (8.63%) Identity Management
8 12 (8.63%) ITIL
8 12 (8.63%) Network Virtualisation
9 11 (7.91%) Mentoring
10 10 (7.19%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (5.04%) Task Automation
12 6 (4.32%) Migration
13 5 (3.60%) Change Control
13 5 (3.60%) Microservices
13 5 (3.60%) Project Delivery
13 5 (3.60%) Time Management
13 5 (3.60%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 4 (2.88%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.79%) Java
2 12 (8.63%) PowerShell
3 10 (7.19%) Bash
3 10 (7.19%) TypeScript
4 9 (6.47%) SQL
5 8 (5.76%) Python
6 2 (1.44%) Go
6 2 (1.44%) Ruby
7 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.72%) Perl
7 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (51.08%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.95%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (11.51%) CCNA
5 13 (9.35%) CCNP
6 8 (5.76%) Degree
7 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) CCIE
9 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (12.23%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.47%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (5.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.32%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.60%) VMware Server
5 5 (3.60%) vSphere
6 4 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.16%) Docker
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (7.19%) SCCM
2 9 (6.47%) SCOM
3 6 (4.32%) FortiGate
4 5 (3.60%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.60%) Terraform
4 5 (3.60%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.88%) Ansible
5 4 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.16%) Puppet
7 2 (1.44%) Consul
7 2 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.44%) Grafana
7 2 (1.44%) Graphite
7 2 (1.44%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.44%) Istio
7 2 (1.44%) linkerd
7 2 (1.44%) Packer
7 2 (1.44%) Podman
7 2 (1.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (42.45%) Juniper
2 40 (28.78%) Cisco
3 23 (16.55%) F5
4 16 (11.51%) Microsoft
4 16 (11.51%) VMware
5 11 (7.91%) Fortinet
6 9 (6.47%) Meraki
7 8 (5.76%) Aruba
7 8 (5.76%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.32%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.88%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.88%) Splunk
10 3 (2.16%) Adobe
10 3 (2.16%) Citrix
10 3 (2.16%) Dell
10 3 (2.16%) Intel
10 3 (2.16%) Oracle
10 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.16%) SAP
10 3 (2.16%) Sitecore