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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 548 622
Rank change year-on-year +62 +74 +142
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 12 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.021% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.025% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £477 £147 £413
25th Percentile £480 £200 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £473
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +16.40% -17.83%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £555
90th Percentile £705 - £619
UK median daily rate £535 £508 £565
% change year-on-year +5.42% -10.18% +4.15%

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 23,765 31,961 42,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.03% 85.51% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,278 20,746 29,768
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 2,306 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +45 6 £550 - 13
South East - 3 £504 - 2
North of England - 2 £500 -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub
4 3 (25.00%) Route 53
4 3 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (16.67%) AWS KMS
5 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) VPN
3 4 (33.33%) NGFW
3 4 (33.33%) WAN
3 4 (33.33%) Wireless
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (25.00%) IPsec
4 3 (25.00%) LAN
4 3 (25.00%) MPLS
5 2 (16.67%) Internet
5 2 (16.67%) Network Security
5 2 (16.67%) PSTN
5 2 (16.67%) SSL
5 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (16.67%) VoIP
6 1 (8.33%) BGP
6 1 (8.33%) IGRP
6 1 (8.33%) OSPF
6 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Police
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
1 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (16.67%) Compliance Audit
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (16.67%) Database Security
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Runbook
3 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
3 2 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (25.00%) CCNA
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Kustomize
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco
1 5 (41.67%) F5
1 5 (41.67%) Palo Alto
2 4 (33.33%) Aruba
3 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (25.00%) Juniper
4 2 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (16.67%) Splunk
5 1 (8.33%) Qualys
5 1 (8.33%) UiPath