Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Load Balancing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 111 131
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +51
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 10 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.58% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.67% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £410 £506 £469
25th Percentile £424 £516 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £559 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -14.04% +7.00%
75th Percentile £672 £722 £724
90th Percentile £775 £919 £725
Central London median daily rate £543 £559 £650
% change year-on-year -2.91% -14.04% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,618 1,926 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.02% 91.67% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,177 1,739
10th Percentile £327 £374 £363
25th Percentile £420 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.03% +1.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £760 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -24.26%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.05%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the City of London

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Load Balancing
Central London

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Akamai
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) DHCP
3 3 (30.00%) SSL
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) HTTP
4 2 (20.00%) Internet
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
5 1 (10.00%) IOS XR
5 1 (10.00%) IPsec
5 1 (10.00%) LAN
5 1 (10.00%) NAS
5 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) SAN
5 1 (10.00%) SSH
5 1 (10.00%) WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Support
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (10.00%) SailPoint Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) 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%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Packer
3 1 (10.00%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) MobileIron
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto