Load Balancing Contracts in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 55 128 164
Rank change year-on-year +73 +36 -42
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 54 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.81% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 0.52% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 8
10th Percentile - £288 £421
25th Percentile £363 £306 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -21.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £578
90th Percentile £518 £511 £588
England median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Solihull +6 40 £375 - 6
Birmingham +18 14 £475 +11.76%
Shropshire +31 1 - - 4
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (90.74%) WAN
2 45 (83.33%) BGP
2 45 (83.33%) IPsec
2 45 (83.33%) MPLS
2 45 (83.33%) VPN
3 44 (81.48%) Junos
4 7 (12.96%) Firewall
5 6 (11.11%) LAN
6 5 (9.26%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.70%) DNS
7 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.85%) DHCP
8 1 (1.85%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.70%) German Language
3 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (46.30%) WAN Engineer
2 23 (42.59%) 3rd Line Support
3 22 (40.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 19 (35.19%) Network Support
5 12 (22.22%) Network Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Support Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
10 2 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Administrator
10 2 (3.70%) Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Architect
11 1 (1.85%) DBA
11 1 (1.85%) Network Support Engineer
11 1 (1.85%) Project Engineer
11 1 (1.85%) Server Administrator
11 1 (1.85%) SQL DBA
11 1 (1.85%) VMWare Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 46 (85.19%) PKI
2 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.85%) Clustering
3 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) CentOS
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
1 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Network Design
2 2 (3.70%) Agile
2 2 (3.70%) API Management
2 2 (3.70%) Data Architecture
2 2 (3.70%) Data Migration
2 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (3.70%) Migration
2 2 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (3.70%) Project Delivery
2 2 (3.70%) Time Management
3 1 (1.85%) CI/CD
3 1 (1.85%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (1.85%) Database Migration
3 1 (1.85%) DevOps
3 1 (1.85%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (1.85%) High Availability
3 1 (1.85%) Patch Management
3 1 (1.85%) Server Migrations
3 1 (1.85%) Task Automation
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (1.85%) Bash
2 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (75.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Server
2 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (83.33%) Juniper
2 5 (9.26%) Aruba
2 5 (9.26%) Cisco
2 5 (9.26%) F5
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.85%) VMware