Load Balancing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Load Balancing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 272 374
Rank change year-on-year -17 +102 -19
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 58 201 263
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.80% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.89% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 150 177
10th Percentile £300 £413 £410
25th Percentile £415 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% -6.36% +12.24%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £478 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.18% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,242 22,482 39,977
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,879 28,991
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 516 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.66 £13.78
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.29
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Load Balancing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Load Balancing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Load Balancing.

Load Balancing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Load Balancing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Load Balancing.

Load Balancing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.45%) Confluence
1 2 (3.45%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (1.72%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (1.72%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (1.72%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) AWS
2 11 (18.97%) Azure
3 8 (13.79%) GCP
4 4 (6.90%) Akamai
4 4 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.90%) PaaS
4 4 (6.90%) Twilio
5 3 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.45%) Datadog
6 2 (3.45%) Kong
6 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 27 (46.55%) Firewall
2 21 (36.21%) VPN
3 19 (32.76%) Network Security
4 17 (29.31%) DNS
5 11 (18.97%) WAN
6 10 (17.24%) BGP
6 10 (17.24%) SD-WAN
7 8 (13.79%) 4G
7 8 (13.79%) 5G
7 8 (13.79%) LAN
8 7 (12.07%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (12.07%) DHCP
8 7 (12.07%) OSPF
8 7 (12.07%) SNMP
9 6 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (10.34%) TCP/IP
10 5 (8.62%) HTTP
10 5 (8.62%) MPLS
10 5 (8.62%) VoIP
11 4 (6.90%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.45%) Power BI
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Git
2 5 (8.62%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (6.90%) Artifactory
3 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket
3 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.90%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Retail
3 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.17%) Banking
4 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Automotive
5 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Network Engineer
2 14 (24.14%) Architect
3 13 (22.41%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) Full Stack Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Java Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Network Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Java Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Core Network Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Design Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) IP Design Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) IP Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) IP Network Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Lead
6 4 (6.90%) Mobile Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Network Design Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Network Design Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Network Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Network Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.52%) CSS
1 9 (15.52%) HTML
1 9 (15.52%) React
2 4 (6.90%) Middleware
2 4 (6.90%) Web Services
3 3 (5.17%) LDAP
4 2 (3.45%) OAuth
5 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.62%) Clustering
2 5 (8.62%) IVR
3 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.45%) PKI
5 1 (1.72%) FMCG
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
2 9 (15.52%) Windows
3 7 (12.07%) Unix
4 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.90%) Android
5 4 (6.90%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.72%) CentOS
7 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) DevOps
2 17 (29.31%) Agile
2 17 (29.31%) CI/CD
3 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (17.24%) Network Design
5 9 (15.52%) Full Stack Development
5 9 (15.52%) Identity Management
6 8 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
6 8 (13.79%) Roadmaps
7 7 (12.07%) Capacity Planning
7 7 (12.07%) High Availability
7 7 (12.07%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.34%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.62%) Conversational UI
9 5 (8.62%) Migration
9 5 (8.62%) Test Automation
10 4 (6.90%) Analytics
10 4 (6.90%) Customer Experience
10 4 (6.90%) Data Privacy
10 4 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.52%) Java
1 9 (15.52%) TypeScript
2 8 (13.79%) Python
3 5 (8.62%) Bash
3 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.72%) Bicep
4 1 (1.72%) Go
4 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (12.07%) CCNP
3 7 (12.07%) Degree
4 6 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (8.62%) CCDP
5 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Master's Degree
7 3 (5.17%) CCNA
8 1 (1.72%) CCIE
8 1 (1.72%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.72%) MCSE
8 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) GDPR
1 4 (6.90%) HIPAA
1 4 (6.90%) PCI DSS
1 4 (6.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.17%) Docker
3 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.45%) vSphere
5 1 (1.72%) PowerDNS
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.72%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
1 7 (12.07%) Terraform
2 6 (10.34%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Kibana
4 2 (3.45%) SCCM
5 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.72%) Puppet
5 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (48.28%) Cisco
2 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
3 10 (17.24%) Juniper
4 9 (15.52%) F5
5 6 (10.34%) Arista
5 6 (10.34%) Aruba
5 6 (10.34%) Genesys
5 6 (10.34%) Google
5 6 (10.34%) Palo Alto
5 6 (10.34%) VMware
6 5 (8.62%) Splunk
6 5 (8.62%) Zscaler
7 4 (6.90%) Avaya
7 4 (6.90%) Meraki
7 4 (6.90%) Oracle
8 3 (5.17%) Infoblox
9 2 (3.45%) BigPanda
9 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (1.72%) Extreme Networks