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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.89% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £561 - -
90th Percentile £577 - -
East of England median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.74% -8.86% -7.72%

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 291 294 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.61% 88.55% 82.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 127 115
10th Percentile £168 £200 £212
25th Percentile £381 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £581 £550
90th Percentile £664 £685 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 68 163
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.46 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.36 £16.71 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +2.93% +11.93%
75th Percentile £19.25 £25.15 £21.42
90th Percentile £37.12 £60.00 £48.60
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%

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 2 August 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 £530 -
Peterborough - 1 £575 - 1
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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco