Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Load Balancing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.56% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £483 - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £338
75th Percentile £533 - £344
90th Percentile £536 - -
East of England median daily rate £510 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 299 268 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 83.99% 85.90% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 120 135
10th Percentile £211 £313 £215
25th Percentile £335 £405 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £562 £577
90th Percentile £675 £650 £683
East of England median daily rate £475 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.61% -3.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 58 171
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.53 £21.46 -
90th Percentile £34.59 £28.93 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -46.43% +70.45% -5.46%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Cambridge - 2 £510 - 2
Load Balancing
East of England

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Network Services Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) jetNEXUS