Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Load Balancing
Scotland > Glasgow

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 15 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.25% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.30%
75th Percentile £538 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -35.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,014 672 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.29% 90.32% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 411 421
10th Percentile £281 £300 £268
25th Percentile £363 £383 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £440
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +3.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £653
Scotland median daily rate £467 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -0.64% +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 12
10th Percentile £13.39 £14.40 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.72 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +97.49% -9.53% +35.10%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 £26.76
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.37 £41.70
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £19.97 £19.59
% change year-on-year -15.57% +1.94% +3.49%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) HTTP
2 5 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 5 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) BGP
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) IPv4
4 1 (6.67%) IPv6
4 1 (6.67%) LAN
4 1 (6.67%) OSPF
4 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Ant
2 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Network Performance Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Spring
1 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) High Availability
4 4 (26.67%) Open Source
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (13.33%) Multithreaded Programming
6 2 (13.33%) Release Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Storage Management
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) C++
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
1 3 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Podman
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) SCOM
3 1 (6.67%) WMI
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) SaltStack
3 1 (6.67%) Intel
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Qualys