Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Load Balancing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 82 71
Rank change year-on-year -20 -11 +61
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 2 2 38
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.18% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 24
10th Percentile - - £359
25th Percentile £454 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.64%
75th Percentile £511 - £500
90th Percentile - - £568
England median daily rate £518 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +0.98% -6.82% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,342 951 1,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.35% 83.49% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 404 804
10th Percentile £186 £234 £247
25th Percentile £359 £336 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £581 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £703
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 188 361
10th Percentile £14.07 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.34 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% +28.80% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in the East of England

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Bedfordshire - 1 £483 -
Suffolk - 1 - -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) RTP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Salt
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Dialogic
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Metaswitch
2 1 (50.00%) Vertica