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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 116 145
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 +39
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 13 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.67% 0.60% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.65% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 10
10th Percentile £429 £550 £505
25th Percentile £491 £625 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £675 £671
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +0.67% +30.83%
75th Percentile £719 £838 £728
90th Percentile £775 £965 £733
London median daily rate £560 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -13.85% +13.04% -4.17%

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 1,820 2,138 2,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.72% 91.96% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 1,377 2,014
10th Percentile £316 £363 £357
25th Percentile £418 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 26 17
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.69 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £42.13 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -9.29% -7.28% +4.86%

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

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +6 9 £600 -11.11% 1
City of Westminster - 4 £590 -
West End of London - 1 £475 -
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 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) HTTP
2 4 (30.77%) Network Security
2 4 (30.77%) SSL
2 4 (30.77%) WAN
3 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (15.38%) BGP
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 2 (15.38%) VPN
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (7.69%) Firewall
5 1 (7.69%) Internet
5 1 (7.69%) IOS XR
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
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Robot Framework
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix Support
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Designer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Hedge funds
2 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) FMCG
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%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) High Availability
3 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (15.38%) Low Latency
4 2 (15.38%) Network Performance Management
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
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
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Istio
4 1 (7.69%) Packer
4 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) F5
1 3 (23.08%) Meraki
2 2 (15.38%) Arista
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) MobileIron
3 1 (7.69%) Zscaler