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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 116 122
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 21 12 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.87% 0.63% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.67% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 4
10th Percentile £382 £421 £538
25th Percentile £403 £444 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £738
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -22.03% +12.00%
75th Percentile £728 £706 £891
90th Percentile £843 £775 £986
London median daily rate £525 £525 £650
% change year-on-year - -19.23% +13.04%

All Process & 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 2,197 1,791 2,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.50% 93.92% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,518 1,228 1,382
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £780
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 24 27
10th Percentile £15.15 £17.61 £19.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £27.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £27.04 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -22.76% +27.27%
75th Percentile £42.56 £35.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.10 £61.65 £122.20
London median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%

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 15 October 2026.

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 15 October 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
City of London -3 21 £531 -2.07% 12
City of Westminster -10 2 £425 -29.17% 1
West End of London -9 1 £425 -10.53%
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 3 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
2 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 3 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) DNS
3 8 (38.10%) VPN
4 7 (33.33%) BGP
4 7 (33.33%) Multicast
4 7 (33.33%) VLAN
5 6 (28.57%) Cisco Wireless
5 6 (28.57%) Wireless
6 5 (23.81%) Network Security
7 4 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (14.29%) WAN
9 2 (9.52%) BIG-IP
10 1 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (4.76%) DHCP
10 1 (4.76%) NAS
10 1 (4.76%) NGFW
10 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
10 1 (4.76%) VSAN
10 1 (4.76%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Network Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Implementation Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Firewall Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) eBPF
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 6 (28.57%) Digital Signage
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) CentOS
2 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 6 (28.57%) Observability
2 6 (28.57%) Use Case
3 5 (23.81%) Network Architecture
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) AIOps
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) Change Control
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
6 2 (9.52%) Security Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (9.52%) CCIE
4 2 (9.52%) CCNP
5 1 (4.76%) CCIE Security
5 1 (4.76%) CCNA
5 1 (4.76%) CCSP
5 1 (4.76%) CISSP
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (14.29%) Ansible
3 3 (14.29%) Grafana
3 3 (14.29%) Istio
3 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Cisco
2 9 (42.86%) F5
3 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto
4 3 (14.29%) AppDynamics
4 3 (14.29%) Dynatrace
4 3 (14.29%) Google
4 3 (14.29%) Splunk
5 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.52%) VMware
6 1 (4.76%) Alias
6 1 (4.76%) Arista
6 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.76%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (4.76%) Red Hat