Load Balancing Contracts

Load Balancing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 350 394
Rank change year-on-year -16 +44 -6
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 241 421 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.70% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.78% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 299 371
10th Percentile £360 £363 £413
25th Percentile £385 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £705 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -6.40% -3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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% -44.71%
75th Percentile £51.29 - £49.75
90th Percentile £61.01 - £54.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - -39.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +14 221 £475 -13.64% 68
UK excluding London +47 141 £475 -6.40% 44
London -5 87 £475 -20.83% 24
Work from Home -7 56 £480 -12.73% 26
West Midlands +73 54 £375 - 11
Midlands +57 54 £375 -14.29% 16
East of England +47 33 £500 -9.09% 6
South West +23 17 £600 +26.32% 7
South East +5 15 £450 -10.00% 9
North of England -36 13 £600 +9.09% 6
North West -40 12 £600 +9.09% 4
Scotland - 9 £782 - 1
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 2

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (6.64%) IIS
2 8 (3.32%) Apache
3 7 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.90%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.07%) nginx
5 4 (1.66%) Confluence
6 3 (1.24%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.83%) Traefik
8 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (22.82%) Azure
2 39 (16.18%) AWS
3 18 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.39%) GCP
5 11 (4.56%) PaaS
6 10 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.90%) Cloudflare
8 6 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (2.49%) GitHub
9 5 (2.07%) Akamai
9 5 (2.07%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.66%) BigCommerce
10 4 (1.66%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.66%) IaaS
10 4 (1.66%) SaaS
11 3 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.24%) Cohesity
11 3 (1.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 103 (42.74%) Firewall
2 86 (35.68%) VPN
3 78 (32.37%) WAN
4 69 (28.63%) BGP
5 64 (26.56%) MPLS
6 58 (24.07%) DNS
7 51 (21.16%) IPsec
8 48 (19.92%) Junos
9 39 (16.18%) Network Security
10 26 (10.79%) LAN
11 22 (9.13%) DHCP
12 20 (8.30%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (7.47%) 5G
13 18 (7.47%) SD-WAN
14 14 (5.81%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (5.81%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (5.81%) TCP/IP
15 13 (5.39%) 4G
15 13 (5.39%) Wireshark
16 12 (4.98%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.66%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.24%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.83%) Power BI
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.41%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.41%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.41%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.41%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.41%) MySQL
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (7.05%) Git
2 11 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (3.32%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.49%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.49%) JIRA
6 5 (2.07%) GitLab
7 4 (1.66%) Fiddler
8 3 (1.24%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.41%) JUnit
9 1 (0.41%) Mockito
9 1 (0.41%) TestNG
General
1 46 (19.09%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.71%) Finance
3 17 (7.05%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.32%) Banking
6 5 (2.07%) German Language
6 5 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.07%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.66%) Automotive
7 4 (1.66%) Legal
7 4 (1.66%) Retail
8 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.24%) Marketing
9 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (30.71%) Network Engineer
2 29 (12.03%) Architect
3 26 (10.79%) WAN Engineer
4 25 (10.37%) Senior
5 23 (9.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 23 (9.54%) 3rd Line Support
6 19 (7.88%) Network Support
7 18 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (6.22%) Web Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Design Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Network Architect
9 11 (4.56%) Network Design Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.73%) Administrator
10 9 (3.73%) Developer
10 9 (3.73%) Full Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.73%) Java Engineer
10 9 (3.73%) Lead
10 9 (3.73%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.64%) .NET
1 16 (6.64%) CSS
1 16 (6.64%) HTML
1 16 (6.64%) React
2 8 (3.32%) LDAP
3 7 (2.90%) SAML
4 6 (2.49%) Node.js
5 5 (2.07%) JSON
5 5 (2.07%) JWT
5 5 (2.07%) NETCONF
5 5 (2.07%) XML
5 5 (2.07%) YANG
6 4 (1.66%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.66%) 802.1X
6 4 (1.66%) OAuth
6 4 (1.66%) Spring
7 3 (1.24%) JDBC
7 3 (1.24%) JPA
7 3 (1.24%) REST
7 3 (1.24%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.65%) PKI
2 32 (13.28%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.56%) Clustering
4 5 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.07%) Replication
5 4 (1.66%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.24%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.24%) Media Streaming
6 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.41%) FMCG
8 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.41%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.11%) Linux
2 29 (12.03%) Windows
3 19 (7.88%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.56%) Unix
5 4 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.24%) Android
6 3 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.24%) CentOS
7 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.41%) VMS
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (24.90%) DevOps
2 44 (18.26%) Network Design
3 41 (17.01%) Agile
4 37 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (14.52%) CI/CD
6 26 (10.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (10.37%) Migration
8 20 (8.30%) Software Engineering
9 18 (7.47%) ITIL
10 17 (7.05%) Identity Management
11 16 (6.64%) Roadmaps
12 15 (6.22%) Network Virtualisation
13 14 (5.81%) Full Stack Development
13 14 (5.81%) High Availability
13 14 (5.81%) Mentoring
14 12 (4.98%) Kanban
14 12 (4.98%) Test Automation
15 10 (4.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (4.15%) Project Delivery
15 10 (4.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.52%) Python
2 33 (13.69%) PowerShell
3 22 (9.13%) Java
4 20 (8.30%) SQL
5 15 (6.22%) Bash
6 14 (5.81%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.73%) Go
8 7 (2.90%) C#
9 5 (2.07%) Bicep
10 4 (1.66%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.66%) Ruby
10 4 (1.66%) VBScript
11 3 (1.24%) C
11 3 (1.24%) PHP
12 2 (0.83%) Perl
12 2 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (36.93%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.62%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (8.71%) CCNP
5 16 (6.64%) CCNA
6 15 (6.22%) Degree
7 7 (2.90%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.07%) CCDP
9 3 (1.24%) CCIE
9 3 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.41%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.41%) MCSA
11 1 (0.41%) MCSE
11 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.83%) NCSC
2 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (10.37%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.98%) Docker
3 11 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.49%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.66%) vSphere
8 3 (1.24%) NFS
9 2 (0.83%) PowerDNS
9 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.41%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (9.13%) Terraform
2 16 (6.64%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.81%) SCCM
4 13 (5.39%) Puppet
5 12 (4.98%) FortiGate
5 12 (4.98%) SCOM
6 10 (4.15%) Ansible
7 7 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.07%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.66%) Grafana
9 4 (1.66%) Kibana
10 3 (1.24%) Istio
10 3 (1.24%) vRealize
11 2 (0.83%) Consul
11 2 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.83%) Graphite
11 2 (0.83%) linkerd
11 2 (0.83%) Packer
11 2 (0.83%) Podman
Vendors
1 72 (29.88%) Cisco
2 65 (26.97%) Juniper
3 60 (24.90%) F5
4 28 (11.62%) Microsoft
5 23 (9.54%) VMware
6 22 (9.13%) Palo Alto
7 19 (7.88%) Fortinet
8 18 (7.47%) Aruba
9 16 (6.64%) Meraki
10 11 (4.56%) Splunk
11 10 (4.15%) SolarWinds
12 8 (3.32%) CheckPoint
12 8 (3.32%) Oracle
13 7 (2.90%) Arista
13 7 (2.90%) Citrix
14 6 (2.49%) Infoblox
14 6 (2.49%) Nokia
15 5 (2.07%) Zscaler
16 4 (1.66%) Adobe
16 4 (1.66%) Salesforce