Network Load Balancing Contracts in England

Network Load Balancing (NLB)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Network Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network 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 475 536 636
Rank change year-on-year +61 +100 +130
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 10 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.016% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.019% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £480 £138 £413
25th Percentile £515 £178 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £388 £525
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% -26.19% -3.23%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £569
90th Percentile £650 - £596
UK median daily rate £625 £465 £563
% change year-on-year +34.41% -17.33% +5.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Network 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%

Network Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Load Balancing in England

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Load Balancing in England

Network Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Load Balancing in England

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Load Balancing in England

Network 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 Network 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 +35 3 £480 +23.87% 6
South East - 3 £650 - 3
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
Network Load Balancing
UK

Network 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) NGFW
2 6 (60.00%) SSL
3 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (40.00%) Network Security
3 4 (40.00%) WAN
4 3 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (30.00%) IPsec
4 3 (30.00%) LAN
4 3 (30.00%) MPLS
4 3 (30.00%) VPN
4 3 (30.00%) Wireless
5 2 (20.00%) Internet
5 2 (20.00%) NetScaler
5 2 (20.00%) PSTN
5 2 (20.00%) VoIP
6 1 (10.00%) Intranet
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Network Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Telephony Manager
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) SAML
2 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Application Security
2 4 (40.00%) Data Security
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) SIEM
2 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (30.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (30.00%) RBAC
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Network Design
4 2 (20.00%) Release Management
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Perl
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISM
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
2 3 (30.00%) CCNA
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Aruba
2 3 (30.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) F5
2 3 (30.00%) Juniper
2 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Dell
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) IBM