Load Balancing Contracts in Kent

Load Balancing
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Balancing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 31 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.46% 1.40% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.85% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £339 £303 -
25th Percentile £352 £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% - -
75th Percentile £427 £338 -
90th Percentile £433 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

Load Balancing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 137 162 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 66.83% 75.35% 85.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 120 209
10th Percentile £205 £121 £184
25th Percentile £230 £205 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £430
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -18.60% +24.64%
75th Percentile £550 £526 £575
90th Percentile £656 £743 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 11
10th Percentile £11.47 £37.48 £23.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £42.32 £29.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £54.95 £35.55
Median % change year-on-year -35.40% +54.59% -8.67%
75th Percentile £46.87 £57.12 £42.63
90th Percentile £62.96 £61.35 £46.09
South East median hourly rate £46.87 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.26% +122.22% -11.76%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Kent

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Kent

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Kent

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
West Malling - 1 £363 -
Load Balancing
South East

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) NetScaler
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (66.67%) Two-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Meraki
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
3 1 (33.33%) VMware