Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Load Balancing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 66 57
Rank change year-on-year +27 -9 +26
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 35 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.43% 0.56% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 0.66% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 3
10th Percentile £294 £418 £450
25th Percentile - £425 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -40.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £775
90th Percentile £515 £483 £790
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £300 £450
% change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 593 602 672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.94% 83.61% 83.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 390 441
10th Percentile £250 £200 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 10 25
10th Percentile £12.62 £19.65 £13.87
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% +26.88% +62.16%
75th Percentile £23.56 £54.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.70 £23.05 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.80% -16.18% +55.19%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in Birmingham

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (2.86%) AWS
1 1 (2.86%) Azure
1 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (51.43%) DNS
2 17 (48.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 17 (48.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 15 (42.86%) BGP
3 15 (42.86%) DMZ
3 15 (42.86%) IPsec
3 15 (42.86%) MPLS
3 15 (42.86%) VPN
3 15 (42.86%) WAN
4 10 (28.57%) Network Security
5 7 (20.00%) BIG-IP
5 7 (20.00%) HTTP
5 7 (20.00%) SSL
5 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 7 (20.00%) Wireshark
6 5 (14.29%) Junos
7 2 (5.71%) Firewall
8 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (48.57%) Banking
1 17 (48.57%) Investment Banking
2 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 12 (34.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 11 (31.43%) 3rd Line Support
3 11 (31.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 11 (31.43%) Network Engineer
4 10 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Python Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Junior
6 3 (8.57%) Junior Network Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Network Support
6 3 (8.57%) Network Support Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) WAN Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Web Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (48.57%) Management Information System
2 15 (42.86%) PKI
3 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Business Strategy
1 10 (28.57%) Design Patterns
2 9 (25.71%) Network Design
3 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (14.29%) Migration
4 5 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.57%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (8.57%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 2 (5.71%) High Availability
7 2 (5.71%) ITIL
8 1 (2.86%) BCP
8 1 (2.86%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.86%) Configuration Management
8 1 (2.86%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (2.86%) ITSM
8 1 (2.86%) Project Management
8 1 (2.86%) Risk Management
8 1 (2.86%) Service Management
8 1 (2.86%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) Bash
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.86%) CCNP
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) F5
2 16 (45.71%) Juniper
3 13 (37.14%) VMware
4 7 (20.00%) Blue Coat
4 7 (20.00%) McAfee
4 7 (20.00%) NetApp
5 4 (11.43%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) Commvault
6 1 (2.86%) NetScout
6 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Veeam