Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Load Balancing
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 28 4
Rank change year-on-year +14 -24 -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 6 5 65
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 5.83% 2.24% 31.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.59% 2.70% 37.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 57
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £429 £430 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £440 £580
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -24.14% -
75th Percentile £535 £457 £627
90th Percentile £541 £461 £628
North West median daily rate £500 £508 £575
% change year-on-year -1.48% -11.74% -8.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79 185 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 76.70% 82.96% 83.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 84 126
10th Percentile £398 £397 £338
25th Percentile £442 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% - +17.10%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £627
90th Percentile £594 £648 £670
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 11
10th Percentile £25.15 £45.22 £25.00
25th Percentile £25.82 £48.60 £28.30
Median hourly rate £36.53 £62.32 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.37% +18.70% -3.62%
75th Percentile £56.82 £70.90 £55.43
90th Percentile £63.40 £80.59 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Barrow-in-Furness +11 6 £519 +18.01% 5
Load Balancing
North West

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (66.67%) NetScaler
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (33.33%) SNMP
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
1 4 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Network Design
1 4 (66.67%) Network Management
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Server Building
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Meraki
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) VMware