Load Balancing Contracts in the City of London

Load Balancing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 115 151
Rank change year-on-year +8 +36 +29
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 8 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 0.47% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.51% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 16
10th Percentile £405 £549 £461
25th Percentile £444 £605 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £663 £535
Median % change year-on-year -18.11% +23.83% -2.73%
75th Percentile £631 £800 £678
90th Percentile £669 £944 £731
Central London median daily rate £580 £650 £535
% change year-on-year -10.77% +21.50% -2.73%

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 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the City of London

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the City of London

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the City of London

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the City of London

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 3 July 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (12.50%) IOS XR
4 1 (12.50%) IPsec
4 1 (12.50%) NAS
4 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
4 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) SSH
4 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Support
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Network Design
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) SIEM
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Time Management
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Istio
3 1 (12.50%) Packer
3 1 (12.50%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) MobileIron
2 1 (12.50%) NetScout
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto