Load Balancing Contracts in England

Load Balancing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 326 328
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 +54
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 127 223 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.60% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.69% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 138 268
10th Percentile £317 £350 £380
25th Percentile £413 £385 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £668
90th Percentile £650 £675 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £478 £550
% change year-on-year -0.52% -13.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £32.20
25th Percentile - - £46.38
Median hourly rate - £45.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.46% +72.84%
75th Percentile - £51.29 -
90th Percentile - £61.01 -
UK median hourly rate - £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -34.46% +72.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in England.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -2 48 £547 +9.32% 41
North of England +50 44 £513 -14.58% 54
North West +43 38 £500 -16.67% 25
South East +47 16 £525 +16.67% 47
South West +38 9 £475 -20.83% 26
Midlands -24 9 £288 -23.33% 38
West Midlands -33 8 £288 -23.33% 24
Yorkshire +11 4 £450 - 24
North East - 2 £550 - 6
East of England -2 1 - - 25
East Midlands - 1 - - 12
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.94%) Apache
2 4 (3.15%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) JBoss
3 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 45 (35.43%) AWS
2 19 (14.96%) Azure
3 18 (14.17%) GitHub
4 10 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (7.09%) Serverless
6 8 (6.30%) Amazon ELB
7 7 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (5.51%) GCP
8 6 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (4.72%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.72%) IaaS
9 5 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.15%) Cloudflare
10 4 (3.15%) PaaS
11 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 49 (38.58%) Firewall
2 39 (30.71%) WAN
3 30 (23.62%) DNS
4 27 (21.26%) VPN
5 23 (18.11%) Cisco ISE
5 23 (18.11%) Network Security
5 23 (18.11%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (17.32%) NetScaler
7 20 (15.75%) BGP
8 19 (14.96%) LAN
9 13 (10.24%) IPsec
10 12 (9.45%) Cisco Firepower
10 12 (9.45%) OSPF
10 12 (9.45%) SSL
11 11 (8.66%) DHCP
11 11 (8.66%) Wireless
12 8 (6.30%) Cisco IOS
12 8 (6.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 8 (6.30%) MPLS
13 7 (5.51%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (3.15%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.57%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.79%) Big Data
4 1 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.79%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (11.02%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.09%) Git
3 6 (4.72%) GitLab
4 3 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.57%) JIRA
6 1 (0.79%) Ant
6 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.79%) Maven
6 1 (0.79%) Mercurial
General
1 21 (16.54%) Finance
2 17 (13.39%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.51%) Banking
5 4 (3.15%) Retail
6 2 (1.57%) Advertising
6 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.57%) Marketing
6 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Electronics
7 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (51.18%) Network Engineer
2 17 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (12.60%) Architect
4 15 (11.81%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 13 (10.24%) Senior
6 8 (6.30%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (5.51%) AWS Architect
7 7 (5.51%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (5.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.51%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (5.51%) Lead
8 5 (3.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (3.94%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Security Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.17%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.94%) Kafka
2 5 (3.94%) Node.js
2 5 (3.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.57%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.57%) RESTful
3 2 (1.57%) XML
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (0.79%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.79%) HTML
4 1 (0.79%) JSON
4 1 (0.79%) Middleware
4 1 (0.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.69%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.87%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.30%) PKI
4 4 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.57%) Clustering
5 2 (1.57%) CMDB
5 2 (1.57%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.79%) FMCG
6 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) SCADA
6 1 (0.79%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.02%) Linux
2 5 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.15%) Unix
4 3 (2.36%) VMS
5 2 (1.57%) Windows
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.62%) CI/CD
2 28 (22.05%) DevOps
3 25 (19.69%) Network Design
4 23 (18.11%) High Availability
5 22 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (17.32%) Network Management
6 21 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (14.96%) Migration
8 16 (12.60%) Containerisation
8 16 (12.60%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (11.81%) Impact Assessments
9 15 (11.81%) Network Architecture
10 14 (11.02%) Agile
11 10 (7.87%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (7.09%) Cloud Security
12 9 (7.09%) Microservices
13 8 (6.30%) Task Automation
14 7 (5.51%) Auto-Scaling
14 7 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (5.51%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 40 (31.50%) Python
2 16 (12.60%) Bash
3 6 (4.72%) VB
4 5 (3.94%) Go
4 5 (3.94%) Groovy
5 4 (3.15%) PHP
5 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.57%) Perl
7 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.57%) SQL
8 1 (0.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 54 (42.52%) Security Cleared
2 36 (28.35%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.96%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (7.87%) CCNP
5 9 (7.09%) DV Cleared
6 8 (6.30%) AWS Certification
6 8 (6.30%) CCNA
7 6 (4.72%) Degree
8 4 (3.15%) CISSP
9 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.57%) CCIE
11 1 (0.79%) CCDP
11 1 (0.79%) CEH
11 1 (0.79%) MCSE
11 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 5 (3.94%) SLA
2 3 (2.36%) GDPR
3 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.57%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (7.87%) Docker
2 4 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (25.98%) Terraform
2 30 (23.62%) Ansible
3 22 (17.32%) Kubernetes
4 11 (8.66%) Grafana
4 11 (8.66%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.51%) FortiGate
6 5 (3.94%) Istio
7 3 (2.36%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.79%) Podman
8 1 (0.79%) Puppet
8 1 (0.79%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 54 (42.52%) Cisco
2 40 (31.50%) F5
3 34 (26.77%) Palo Alto
4 18 (14.17%) Meraki
5 15 (11.81%) Juniper
6 10 (7.87%) CheckPoint
7 9 (7.09%) Citrix
7 9 (7.09%) Fortinet
8 7 (5.51%) Aruba
8 7 (5.51%) Infoblox
9 6 (4.72%) Arista
9 6 (4.72%) Microsoft
9 6 (4.72%) Splunk
10 5 (3.94%) Google
10 5 (3.94%) NetScout
10 5 (3.94%) Zscaler
11 4 (3.15%) Red Hat
12 3 (2.36%) Blue Coat
12 3 (2.36%) Extreme Networks
12 3 (2.36%) SolarWinds