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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 111 116
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +52
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 6 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.30% 0.22% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.24% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 9
10th Percentile £500 £525 -
25th Percentile £618 £529 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £644 £598
90th Percentile £652 £663 £669
Central London median daily rate £650 £575 £475
% change year-on-year +13.04% +21.05% -2.56%

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 1,763 1,672 2,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.00% 91.62% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 1,028 1,495
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £426 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £664 £688 £688
90th Percentile £771 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.36% -6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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
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 25 February 2026.

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 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) Akamai
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (16.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SailPoint Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Change Control
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) GitOps
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) BeanShell
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto