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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 332 320
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 +55
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 118 214 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.59% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.68% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 135 260
10th Percentile £306 £328 £386
25th Percentile £422 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £650
90th Percentile £668 £683 £732
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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 22 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
North of England +46 41 £525 -12.50% 38
London -11 40 £575 +11.98% 81
North West +36 36 £525 -12.50% 22
South East +49 14 £525 +23.53% 34
Midlands -30 12 £300 -20.00% 16
West Midlands -32 11 £300 -20.00% 16
South West +35 9 £488 -30.36% 15
Yorkshire +12 4 £450 - 15
East of England 0 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 £550 - 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 2 (1.69%) Apache
1 2 (1.69%) JBoss
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) CMS
2 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 45 (38.14%) AWS
2 22 (18.64%) Azure
3 16 (13.56%) GitHub
4 11 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (7.63%) Serverless
6 8 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (6.78%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (6.78%) GCP
7 6 (5.08%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.24%) IaaS
9 4 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.54%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (38.98%) Firewall
2 39 (33.05%) WAN
3 28 (23.73%) DNS
4 24 (20.34%) Cisco ISE
4 24 (20.34%) VPN
5 23 (19.49%) BGP
5 23 (19.49%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (18.64%) NetScaler
6 22 (18.64%) Network Security
7 18 (15.25%) LAN
8 15 (12.71%) IPsec
9 14 (11.86%) Cisco Firepower
9 14 (11.86%) OSPF
10 13 (11.02%) DHCP
11 11 (9.32%) Wireless
12 10 (8.47%) SSL
13 9 (7.63%) Cisco IOS
13 9 (7.63%) MPLS
14 8 (6.78%) Junos
15 7 (5.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.69%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.85%) Big Data
4 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (11.86%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.47%) Git
3 6 (5.08%) GitLab
4 4 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.54%) JIRA
6 1 (0.85%) Ant
6 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.85%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) Mercurial
General
1 22 (18.64%) Finance
2 16 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.78%) Banking
5 6 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.39%) Retail
7 2 (1.69%) Advertising
7 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.69%) Marketing
7 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.85%) Electronics
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (50.85%) Network Engineer
2 17 (14.41%) Architect
3 15 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 12 (10.17%) Senior
5 8 (6.78%) AWS Architect
5 8 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (5.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (5.93%) Lead
7 6 (5.08%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Network Architect
8 5 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.25%) 802.1X
2 6 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.24%) Node.js
4 4 (3.39%) Kafka
4 4 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.69%) Middleware
5 2 (1.69%) NETCONF
5 2 (1.69%) RESTful
5 2 (1.69%) XML
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (0.85%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.85%) HTML
6 1 (0.85%) JSON
6 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.19%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.63%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.78%) PKI
4 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.54%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.69%) Clustering
5 2 (1.69%) CMDB
5 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.85%) FMCG
6 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) SCADA
6 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.78%) Linux
2 4 (3.39%) Unix
3 3 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.54%) VMS
4 2 (1.69%) Windows
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (24.58%) CI/CD
2 28 (23.73%) DevOps
3 26 (22.03%) Network Design
4 22 (18.64%) High Availability
4 22 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (18.64%) Network Management
5 20 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (13.56%) Agile
6 16 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (12.71%) Containerisation
7 15 (12.71%) Network Architecture
8 13 (11.02%) Impact Assessments
8 13 (11.02%) Migration
9 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (7.63%) Cloud Security
10 9 (7.63%) ITIL
10 9 (7.63%) Microservices
11 8 (6.78%) Task Automation
12 7 (5.93%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (5.93%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.44%) Python
2 16 (13.56%) Bash
3 7 (5.93%) VB
4 6 (5.08%) Groovy
5 4 (3.39%) Go
5 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.54%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.69%) Perl
7 2 (1.69%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.69%) SQL
8 1 (0.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 53 (44.92%) Security Cleared
2 36 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.41%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (8.47%) CCNP
5 9 (7.63%) AWS Certification
6 8 (6.78%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.93%) CCNA
7 7 (5.93%) Degree
8 4 (3.39%) CISSP
9 3 (2.54%) CCIE
9 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.85%) CCIE Security
11 1 (0.85%) CCSE
11 1 (0.85%) CCSM
11 1 (0.85%) CEH
11 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.08%) SLA
2 5 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
4 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.69%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (8.47%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (28.81%) Ansible
2 32 (27.12%) Terraform
3 22 (18.64%) Kubernetes
4 10 (8.47%) Grafana
4 10 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.93%) FortiGate
6 5 (4.24%) Istio
7 3 (2.54%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.69%) Nagios
8 2 (1.69%) Podman
9 1 (0.85%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.85%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.85%) Puppet
9 1 (0.85%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 55 (46.61%) Cisco
2 34 (28.81%) F5
3 32 (27.12%) Palo Alto
4 19 (16.10%) Meraki
5 15 (12.71%) Juniper
6 11 (9.32%) CheckPoint
6 11 (9.32%) Citrix
7 9 (7.63%) Arista
8 8 (6.78%) Microsoft
9 6 (5.08%) Aruba
9 6 (5.08%) Infoblox
9 6 (5.08%) Zscaler
10 5 (4.24%) Fortinet
10 5 (4.24%) Google
10 5 (4.24%) NetScout
10 5 (4.24%) Splunk
11 4 (3.39%) SolarWinds
12 3 (2.54%) Blue Coat
12 3 (2.54%) Extreme Networks
12 3 (2.54%) Ruckus Wireless