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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 116 151
Rank change year-on-year +1 +35 +11
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 4 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.46% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.50% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 20
10th Percentile £615 - £456
25th Percentile £619 £385 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £598 £495
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +20.75% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £646
90th Percentile £695 £764 £733
Central London median daily rate £638 £574 £495
% change year-on-year +11.09% +15.93% -10.00%

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 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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
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
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) NetScout
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto