Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Load Balancing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.02% - 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £353 - £779
25th Percentile £375 - £798
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £830
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile £448 - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £700
% change year-on-year -19.05% -25.00% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 533 558 810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.34% 93.16% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 298 488
10th Percentile £214 £220 £219
25th Percentile £406 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £666 £633 £638
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 17
10th Percentile £17.29 £20.30 £12.71
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.93 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.25 £23.80 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -14.90% +4.04% +7.57%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £30.15 £61.05
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +15.15%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (66.67%) LAN
1 4 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
1 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) IPsec
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Field Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Network Management
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
4 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) BeanShell
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) F5
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler