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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 111 116
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +52
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 10 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.54% 0.49% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.53% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 11
10th Percentile £555 £506 -
25th Percentile £616 £516 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £559 £490
Median % change year-on-year +16.33% +14.03% -13.27%
75th Percentile £683 £628 £595
90th Percentile £775 £656 £724
Central London median daily rate £650 £559 £490
% change year-on-year +16.33% +14.03% -6.67%

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 1,669 1,883 2,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.36% 92.17% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 1,150 1,597
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.52 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.12 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%

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 27 December 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
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) 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%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (10.00%) Akamai
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) SSL
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) HTTP
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
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%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
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 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure 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
2 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Architect
3 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 3 (30.00%) 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%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Change Control
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) BeanShell
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Kibana
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
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