Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Central London

Load Balancing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 118 137
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 +37
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 13 13 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.70% 0.55% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.60% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £421 £511 £498
25th Percentile £444 £528 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £654
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +6.99% +24.62%
75th Percentile £706 £891 £724
90th Percentile £775 £986 £726
London median daily rate £515 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -20.77% +18.18% -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,747 2,156 2,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 94.03% 92.02% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,356 1,932
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 18
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £28.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +30.84% -37.06%
75th Percentile £36.00 £74.38 £45.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £57.73
London median hourly rate £30.50 £38.50 £39.83
% change year-on-year -20.78% -3.34% +2.30%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Central London

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in Central London over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in Central London

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
City of London +7 10 £543 -22.50% 7
City of Westminster - 3 £600 -
West End of London - 1 £475 -
Load Balancing
London

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Akamai
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) SSL
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 3 (23.08%) DHCP
3 3 (23.08%) HTTP
3 3 (23.08%) Network Security
3 3 (23.08%) WAN
4 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 2 (15.38%) Internet
4 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.69%) BGP
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
5 1 (7.69%) IPsec
5 1 (7.69%) LAN
5 1 (7.69%) NAS
5 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
5 1 (7.69%) SAN
5 1 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) Robot Framework
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (7.69%) SailPoint Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
1 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.69%) FMCG
2 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) High Availability
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Low Latency
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 1 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) BeanShell
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Packer
3 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) F5
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Meraki
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Arista
3 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
3 1 (7.69%) MobileIron
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Zscaler