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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 121 123
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +49
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 10 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.50% 0.44% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.47% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 11
10th Percentile £454 £506 -
25th Percentile £613 £516 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £559 £490
Median % change year-on-year +16.33% +14.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £653 £628 £595
90th Percentile £775 £656 £724
London median daily rate £555 £573 £540
% change year-on-year -3.06% +6.02% -14.62%

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 1,822 2,112 2,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.24% 92.35% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,316 1,696
10th Percentile £350 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%

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 January 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 January 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 -4 9 £650 +16.33% 3
West End of London - 1 £475 - 1
City of Westminster - 1 £475 -
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 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) Akamai
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) SSL
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) HTTP
4 1 (10.00%) DHCP
4 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SailPoint Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Change Control
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Observability
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) BeanShell
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto