Load Balancing Contracts in Berkshire

Load Balancing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 122 103
Rank change year-on-year +33 -19 +12
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 4 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 0.10% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.11% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £376 -
25th Percentile £563 £397 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -23.91% +5.50%
75th Percentile £588 £472 £694
90th Percentile - £489 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Load Balancing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Berkshire

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Berkshire

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Berkshire

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading - 2 £575 - 4
Wokingham - 2 - -
Load Balancing
South East

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (25.00%) Junos
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) VMware