Load Balancing Contracts in Central London

Load Balancing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 124 156
Rank change year-on-year +7 +32 +23
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 10 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.51% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.47% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 16
10th Percentile £417 £561 £461
25th Percentile £500 £605 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £663 £535
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% +23.83% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £800 £678
90th Percentile £720 £944 £731
London median daily rate £515 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -6.36% -5.98% +0.47%

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 1,822 2,143 3,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.53% 91.27% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,499 2,261
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.80%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.50 £18.03
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%
75th Percentile £49.75 £36.50 £53.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.25 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.50% -25.00% +10.48%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in Central London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Central London

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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 30 June 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 +2 7 £543 -19.63% 11
City of Westminster - 3 £600 -
Load Balancing
London

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) DHCP
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (20.00%) BGP
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) HTTP
3 2 (20.00%) SSL
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) IOS XR
4 1 (10.00%) IPsec
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
4 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (10.00%) SSH
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Support
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Designer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
3 1 (10.00%) FMCG
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Network Performance Management
3 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Istio
4 1 (10.00%) Packer
4 1 (10.00%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Meraki
3 2 (20.00%) Arista
3 2 (20.00%) F5
3 2 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) MobileIron
4 1 (10.00%) NetScout
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Zscaler