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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 327 386
Rank change year-on-year -25 +59 +45
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 200 345 480
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.73% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.82% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 249 305
10th Percentile £350 £375 £415
25th Percentile £363 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +10.68%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £726 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £32.20 -
25th Percentile - £46.38 £25.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +169.23% -35.00%
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -34.46% +169.23% -64.63%

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 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 17 June 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
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 17 June 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 -8 90 £514 -12.22% 26
West Midlands +58 55 £375 -3.23% 8
Midlands +51 55 £375 -16.67% 14
East of England +6 20 £534 -9.64% 5
North of England -37 13 £600 +20.00% 2
North West -30 11 £600 +21.70% 1
South East -6 8 £463 -7.50% 5
South West 0 7 £700 +41.77% 4
Yorkshire +5 2 - - 1
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 11 (5.50%) IIS
2 8 (4.00%) Apache
3 7 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.50%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.00%) Confluence
4 4 (2.00%) nginx
5 3 (1.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.50%) Traefik
6 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Shopify
2 3 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.50%) Azure
2 33 (16.50%) AWS
3 16 (8.00%) PaaS
4 14 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.00%) GCP
6 8 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.50%) Cloudflare
7 7 (3.50%) GitHub
8 6 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.00%) BigCommerce
10 4 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.00%) SaaS
10 4 (2.00%) Twilio
11 3 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.50%) IaaS
12 2 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 67 (33.50%) Firewall
1 67 (33.50%) VPN
2 66 (33.00%) BGP
3 62 (31.00%) WAN
4 55 (27.50%) MPLS
5 47 (23.50%) DNS
6 45 (22.50%) IPsec
7 44 (22.00%) Junos
8 19 (9.50%) DHCP
9 18 (9.00%) LAN
9 18 (9.00%) Network Security
9 18 (9.00%) TCP/IP
10 16 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (7.00%) HTTP
12 13 (6.50%) OSPF
13 12 (6.00%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (6.00%) SNMP
13 12 (6.00%) VoIP
13 12 (6.00%) Wireshark
14 11 (5.50%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.00%) Power BI
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.50%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.50%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.50%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.50%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.50%) MySQL
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.50%) Git
1 17 (8.50%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.50%) Artifactory
3 10 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 10 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (3.50%) JIRA
4 7 (3.50%) TeamCity
5 6 (3.00%) GitLab
6 5 (2.50%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.50%) Ant
7 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.50%) JUnit
7 1 (0.50%) Maven
7 1 (0.50%) Mockito
7 1 (0.50%) TestNG
General
1 32 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.00%) Finance
3 15 (7.50%) Telecoms
4 9 (4.50%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.00%) Banking
5 8 (4.00%) Retail
6 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.50%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.50%) German Language
8 4 (2.00%) Legal
8 4 (2.00%) Marketing
9 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Automotive
10 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (28.50%) Network Engineer
2 27 (13.50%) Senior
3 24 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 24 (12.00%) Architect
4 23 (11.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 22 (11.00%) WAN Engineer
6 21 (10.50%) Network Support
7 16 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (7.00%) Administrator
9 12 (6.00%) Support Engineer
9 12 (6.00%) Web Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Lead
11 9 (4.50%) Full Stack Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Design Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Java Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Product Owner
13 7 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.00%) .NET
1 14 (7.00%) CSS
1 14 (7.00%) HTML
1 14 (7.00%) React
2 6 (3.00%) LDAP
2 6 (3.00%) Middleware
2 6 (3.00%) Node.js
3 5 (2.50%) .NET Framework
3 5 (2.50%) JWT
3 5 (2.50%) SAML
4 4 (2.00%) JSON
4 4 (2.00%) NETCONF
4 4 (2.00%) Spring
4 4 (2.00%) VML
4 4 (2.00%) Web Services
4 4 (2.00%) XML
4 4 (2.00%) YANG
5 3 (1.50%) JPA
5 3 (1.50%) OAuth
5 3 (1.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (25.50%) PKI
2 19 (9.50%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.50%) Clustering
4 10 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.00%) IVR
6 4 (2.00%) Replication
7 3 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.50%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.50%) Media Streaming
7 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.50%) Linux
2 26 (13.00%) Windows
3 13 (6.50%) Unix
4 10 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.50%) Android
5 7 (3.50%) Apple iOS
5 7 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.50%) CentOS
7 4 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.50%) VMS
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.50%) DevOps
2 42 (21.00%) Agile
3 37 (18.50%) CI/CD
4 35 (17.50%) Network Design
5 28 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (11.00%) Migration
7 20 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 15 (7.50%) Identity Management
8 15 (7.50%) Roadmaps
9 13 (6.50%) Test Automation
10 12 (6.00%) Full Stack Development
11 11 (5.50%) Scrum
12 10 (5.00%) Computer Science
12 10 (5.00%) Kanban
13 9 (4.50%) High Availability
13 9 (4.50%) Task Automation
14 8 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (4.00%) Microservices
15 7 (3.50%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.00%) Python
2 27 (13.50%) PowerShell
3 19 (9.50%) Java
4 17 (8.50%) SQL
5 14 (7.00%) Bash
6 12 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.00%) Go
8 7 (3.50%) C#
9 3 (1.50%) Bicep
9 3 (1.50%) C
9 3 (1.50%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.50%) PHP
9 3 (1.50%) Ruby
10 2 (1.00%) Scala
11 1 (0.50%) Groovy
11 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.00%) Degree
4 14 (7.00%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (5.50%) CCNP
6 10 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.50%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.50%) CCDP
9 5 (2.50%) CCIE
10 4 (2.00%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.00%) CCNA
12 1 (0.50%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.50%) MCSA
12 1 (0.50%) MCSE
12 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.00%) GDPR
1 4 (2.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (2.00%) PCI DSS
1 4 (2.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.50%) NCSC
2 1 (0.50%) PMO
2 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 16 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.50%) Docker
4 9 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.50%) vSphere
7 6 (3.00%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.50%) VMware Server
9 2 (1.00%) PowerDNS
9 2 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (11.00%) Terraform
2 17 (8.50%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.50%) Ansible
4 12 (6.00%) FortiGate
5 11 (5.50%) Puppet
6 10 (5.00%) SCOM
7 8 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.50%) SCCM
9 5 (2.50%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.50%) Grafana
10 3 (1.50%) Kibana
10 3 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.50%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.00%) Istio
11 2 (1.00%) Podman
12 1 (0.50%) Argo
12 1 (0.50%) Consul
12 1 (0.50%) linkerd
12 1 (0.50%) NetMRI
12 1 (0.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 50 (25.00%) F5
2 47 (23.50%) Cisco
3 46 (23.00%) Juniper
4 30 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 22 (11.00%) Palo Alto
6 16 (8.00%) Aruba
6 16 (8.00%) VMware
7 12 (6.00%) Meraki
8 11 (5.50%) Fortinet
8 11 (5.50%) Nokia
9 8 (4.00%) Arista
10 7 (3.50%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.50%) Oracle
10 7 (3.50%) Splunk
11 6 (3.00%) Citrix
11 6 (3.00%) Infoblox
11 6 (3.00%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.50%) Zscaler
13 4 (2.00%) Avaya
13 4 (2.00%) Genesys