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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 115 120
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 +35
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 7 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.27% 0.47% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.50% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £516 £413 £469
25th Percentile £522 £481 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £578 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% -11.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £597 £619 £763
90th Percentile £629 £656 £923
London median daily rate £513 £517 £514
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.60% -13.33%

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 2,251 1,793 2,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.38% 93.39% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,163 1,527
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £678
90th Percentile £775 £775 £799
London median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 27 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.99 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £53.50 £49.75 £31.19
90th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -19 6 £531 -2.07% 4
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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) Multicast
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) SAN
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) VSAN
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Signage
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) CentOS
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (57.14%) Observability
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) AIOps
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
4 1 (14.29%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (14.29%) Istio
4 1 (14.29%) PowerCLI
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
4 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) AppDynamics
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Alias
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat