Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Essex

Load Balancing
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 6 0 21
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.49% - 9.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% - 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 16
10th Percentile £482 - £463
25th Percentile £504 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - £534
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.64%
75th Percentile £558 - £557
90th Percentile £588 - £599
East of England median daily rate £525 - £534
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 182 84 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 75.52% 95.45% 82.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 41 91
10th Percentile £300 £189 £194
25th Percentile £343 £315 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -4.81%
75th Percentile £506 £476 £557
90th Percentile £588 £500 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 18 46
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £10.42
25th Percentile £16.04 £15.19 £14.57
Median hourly rate £20.26 £32.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.68% -45.38% +36.37%
75th Percentile £35.53 £48.30 £80.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £144.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £24.55 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -38.10% -0.85% +81.82%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Essex

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Load Balancing

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Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in Essex over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in Essex

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 22 May 2026. 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
Basildon - 4 £504 - 1
Brentwood - 1 £600 -
Load Balancing
East of England

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (33.33%) IAM Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript