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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 110 115
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +32
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 5 4 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.24% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.26% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £516 £431 -
25th Percentile £522 £499 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £624
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +0.18% +26.03%
75th Percentile £598 £669 £731
90th Percentile £631 £688 £859
Central London median daily rate £586 £600 £598
% change year-on-year -2.29% +0.38% +20.75%

All Process & 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 1,976 1,550 1,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.88% 93.60% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 974 1,376
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -0.46% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.33 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +10.54% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £59.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -20.54%

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
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
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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) AIOps
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) GitOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (20.00%) Server Hardening
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) Workload Management
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Istio
3 1 (20.00%) Kibana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Alias
1 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) F5
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware