Load Balancing Contracts in England

Load Balancing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Balancing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 329 376
Rank change year-on-year +4 +47 +9
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 221 371 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.74% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.81% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 268 301
10th Percentile £350 £380 £415
25th Percentile £385 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £668 £675
90th Percentile £675 £727 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £32.20 £28.20
25th Percentile - £46.38 £32.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% -
75th Percentile £51.29 - £49.75
90th Percentile £61.01 - £54.40
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% -44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Load Balancing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +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 28 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Load Balancing in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 28 April 2024. 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 +6 87 £475 -20.83% 24
West Midlands +72 54 £375 - 11
Midlands +59 54 £375 -16.67% 16
East of England +39 33 £500 -9.09% 6
South West +16 17 £600 +26.32% 7
South East -1 15 £450 -10.00% 8
North of England -38 13 £600 +9.09% 6
North West -35 12 £600 +9.09% 4
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 2
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 12 (5.43%) IIS
2 8 (3.62%) Apache
3 7 (3.17%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.26%) nginx
6 3 (1.36%) Confluence
6 3 (1.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.90%) Traefik
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Shopify
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 53 (23.98%) Azure
2 34 (15.38%) AWS
3 18 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (5.43%) GCP
5 11 (4.98%) PaaS
6 8 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.17%) Cloudflare
8 6 (2.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (2.71%) GitHub
9 5 (2.26%) Akamai
9 5 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.81%) BigCommerce
10 4 (1.81%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.81%) SaaS
11 3 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon Glacier
12 2 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 97 (43.89%) Firewall
2 83 (37.56%) VPN
3 72 (32.58%) WAN
4 68 (30.77%) BGP
5 64 (28.96%) MPLS
6 55 (24.89%) DNS
7 51 (23.08%) IPsec
8 48 (21.72%) Junos
9 39 (17.65%) Network Security
10 21 (9.50%) DHCP
10 21 (9.50%) LAN
11 18 (8.14%) 5G
11 18 (8.14%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (7.69%) SD-WAN
13 14 (6.33%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (5.88%) 4G
14 13 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (5.88%) Wireshark
15 12 (5.43%) TCP/IP
16 11 (4.98%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.62%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.45%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.45%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.45%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.45%) MySQL
4 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (7.69%) Git
2 11 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (2.71%) Artifactory
4 6 (2.71%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.71%) JIRA
5 4 (1.81%) Fiddler
5 4 (1.81%) GitLab
6 3 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.45%) JUnit
7 1 (0.45%) Mockito
7 1 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 42 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.60%) Finance
3 11 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (4.98%) Public Sector
4 6 (2.71%) Banking
5 5 (2.26%) German Language
5 5 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (2.26%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.81%) Legal
6 4 (1.81%) Retail
7 3 (1.36%) Marketing
8 2 (0.90%) Automotive
8 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (33.03%) Network Engineer
2 26 (11.76%) WAN Engineer
3 24 (10.86%) Senior
4 23 (10.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 23 (10.41%) 3rd Line Support
5 20 (9.05%) Architect
6 19 (8.60%) Network Support
7 16 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.79%) Web Engineer
9 14 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.98%) Design Engineer
10 11 (4.98%) Network Design Engineer
10 11 (4.98%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.07%) Administrator
11 9 (4.07%) Full Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.07%) Network Architect
12 8 (3.62%) Java Engineer
13 7 (3.17%) Network Design Specialist
13 7 (3.17%) Network Specialist
13 7 (3.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.24%) .NET
2 14 (6.33%) CSS
2 14 (6.33%) HTML
2 14 (6.33%) React
3 8 (3.62%) LDAP
4 6 (2.71%) Node.js
4 6 (2.71%) SAML
5 5 (2.26%) JSON
5 5 (2.26%) JWT
5 5 (2.26%) NETCONF
5 5 (2.26%) XML
5 5 (2.26%) YANG
6 4 (1.81%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.81%) Spring
7 3 (1.36%) JDBC
7 3 (1.36%) JPA
7 3 (1.36%) VML
7 3 (1.36%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.90%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 56 (25.34%) PKI
2 30 (13.57%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.98%) Clustering
4 5 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (2.26%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.26%) Replication
5 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.36%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.36%) Media Streaming
6 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) IVR
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.22%) Linux
2 23 (10.41%) Windows
3 13 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.17%) Unix
5 3 (1.36%) Android
5 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.36%) CentOS
5 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.45%) VMS
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.89%) DevOps
2 42 (19.00%) Network Design
3 38 (17.19%) Agile
4 33 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (14.48%) CI/CD
6 26 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (10.86%) Migration
8 20 (9.05%) Software Engineering
9 18 (8.14%) ITIL
10 15 (6.79%) Identity Management
10 15 (6.79%) Network Virtualisation
11 12 (5.43%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (4.98%) Kanban
12 11 (4.98%) Mentoring
12 11 (4.98%) Roadmaps
12 11 (4.98%) Test Automation
13 10 (4.52%) High Availability
13 10 (4.52%) Project Delivery
14 9 (4.07%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (4.07%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.12%) PowerShell
2 27 (12.22%) Python
3 19 (8.60%) Java
4 17 (7.69%) SQL
5 12 (5.43%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.98%) Bash
7 9 (4.07%) Go
8 7 (3.17%) C#
9 5 (2.26%) Bicep
10 4 (1.81%) Ruby
10 4 (1.81%) VBScript
11 3 (1.36%) C
11 3 (1.36%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.36%) PHP
12 2 (0.90%) Scala
13 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.03%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.86%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (7.69%) CCNP
5 13 (5.88%) Degree
6 12 (5.43%) CCNA
7 6 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.26%) CCDP
9 3 (1.36%) CCIE
9 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.45%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.45%) MCSA
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.90%) NCSC
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (8.60%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.43%) Docker
3 8 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.26%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.36%) vSphere
7 2 (0.90%) NFS
7 2 (0.90%) PowerDNS
7 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.45%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 21 (9.50%) Terraform
2 13 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.43%) FortiGate
3 12 (5.43%) Puppet
3 12 (5.43%) SCOM
4 10 (4.52%) SCCM
5 9 (4.07%) Ansible
6 7 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.81%) Kibana
7 4 (1.81%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.36%) Istio
8 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.90%) Consul
9 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.90%) Grafana
9 2 (0.90%) Graphite
9 2 (0.90%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.90%) linkerd
9 2 (0.90%) Packer
9 2 (0.90%) vRealize
Vendors
1 68 (30.77%) Cisco
2 64 (28.96%) Juniper
3 56 (25.34%) F5
4 23 (10.41%) Microsoft
5 20 (9.05%) Palo Alto
6 19 (8.60%) Fortinet
7 17 (7.69%) Aruba
8 15 (6.79%) VMware
9 14 (6.33%) Meraki
10 10 (4.52%) SolarWinds
11 8 (3.62%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.62%) Splunk
12 7 (3.17%) Arista
13 6 (2.71%) Citrix
13 6 (2.71%) Infoblox
13 6 (2.71%) Nokia
13 6 (2.71%) Oracle
14 5 (2.26%) Zscaler
15 4 (1.81%) Adobe
15 4 (1.81%) SAP