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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 113 109
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 20 9 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.89% 0.52% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.55% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 5
10th Percentile £382 £413 £550
25th Percentile £400 £481 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +0.67%
75th Percentile £700 £719 £838
90th Percentile £845 £775 £965
Central London median daily rate £525 £590 £675
% change year-on-year -11.02% -12.59% +0.67%

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 1,996 1,644 1,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.31% 94.21% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,101 1,226
10th Percentile £368 £325 £365
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) nginx
2 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 10 (50.00%) DNS
3 7 (35.00%) BGP
3 7 (35.00%) Multicast
3 7 (35.00%) VLAN
3 7 (35.00%) VPN
4 6 (30.00%) Cisco Wireless
4 6 (30.00%) Wireless
5 4 (20.00%) Network Security
5 4 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (15.00%) WAN
7 2 (10.00%) BIG-IP
8 1 (5.00%) DHCP
8 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
8 1 (5.00%) Internet
8 1 (5.00%) LAN
8 1 (5.00%) OSPF
8 1 (5.00%) SAN
8 1 (5.00%) SSH
8 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) eBPF
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (30.00%) Digital Signage
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) CentOS
2 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (35.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (30.00%) Observability
2 6 (30.00%) Use Case
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) ITIL
3 4 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) AIOps
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) Change Control
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.00%) CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Grafana
3 3 (15.00%) Istio
3 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
5 1 (5.00%) PowerCLI
5 1 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Cisco
1 9 (45.00%) F5
2 3 (15.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Alias
4 1 (5.00%) Arista
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat