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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 118 129
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +42
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 9 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.44% 0.33% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.36% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £555 £525 -
25th Percentile £616 £529 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £490
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +17.35% -2.00%
75th Percentile £651 £644 £569
90th Percentile £689 £663 £650
London median daily rate £538 £585 £540
% change year-on-year -8.12% +8.33% -10.00%

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 1,827 1,964 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.99% 92.34% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,217 1,691
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £437 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.46%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 27
10th Percentile £19.86 £20.93 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.15 £24.55 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £41.85 £36.31 £40.00
90th Percentile £46.53 £50.58 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -6 8 £650 +13.04% 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) Serverless
6 1 (11.11%) Akamai
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
6 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (11.11%) Robot Framework
2 1 (11.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Change Control
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Low Latency
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
5 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (11.11%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) BeanShell
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (11.11%) Kibana
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) F5
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto