Load Balancing Contracts in London

Load Balancing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 313 349
Rank change year-on-year +6 +36 -17
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 87 197 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.73% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.80% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 142 175
10th Percentile £325 £461 £463
25th Percentile £389 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £688 £769 £716
England median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in London

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in London

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in London

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +27 11 £513 +3.54% 2
East London - 1 - -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (8.05%) Apache
1 7 (8.05%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.45%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) IIS
2 3 (3.45%) nginx
2 3 (3.45%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.93%) Azure
2 29 (33.33%) AWS
3 10 (11.49%) GCP
4 9 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.34%) PaaS
5 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (8.05%) Cloudflare
7 6 (6.90%) GitHub
8 5 (5.75%) Akamai
9 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.60%) SaaS
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.30%) Amazon Glacier
11 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.30%) Cohesity
11 2 (2.30%) IaaS
12 1 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 38 (43.68%) DNS
1 38 (43.68%) Firewall
2 18 (20.69%) DHCP
3 17 (19.54%) BGP
3 17 (19.54%) Network Security
4 14 (16.09%) MPLS
5 11 (12.64%) SNMP
6 9 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (10.34%) Cisco Nexus
6 9 (10.34%) WAN
7 8 (9.20%) LAN
7 8 (9.20%) Wireshark
8 7 (8.05%) OSPF
8 7 (8.05%) SD-WAN
8 7 (8.05%) SMTP
8 7 (8.05%) TCP/IP
8 7 (8.05%) VPN
9 6 (6.90%) HTTP
10 5 (5.75%) RSVP
10 5 (5.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.15%) Bigtable
3 1 (1.15%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.15%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.15%) CouchDB
3 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.15%) MySQL
3 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Git
2 6 (6.90%) Artifactory
2 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.45%) JIRA
4 3 (3.45%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.30%) GitLab
6 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.15%) Fiddler
General
1 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Finance
3 6 (6.90%) Banking
4 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Automotive
7 1 (1.15%) German Language
7 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (32.18%) Network Engineer
2 13 (14.94%) Senior
3 12 (13.79%) Architect
4 10 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Web Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Network Architect
7 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Analyst
8 5 (5.75%) Data Analyst
8 5 (5.75%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Design Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Network Design Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Administrator
9 4 (4.60%) DBA
9 4 (4.60%) Market Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Market Data Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Voice Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.20%) LDAP
2 7 (8.05%) .NET
3 6 (6.90%) Node.js
4 5 (5.75%) JSON
4 5 (5.75%) NETCONF
4 5 (5.75%) XML
4 5 (5.75%) YANG
5 3 (3.45%) SAML
6 2 (2.30%) CSS
6 2 (2.30%) HTML
6 2 (2.30%) JWT
6 2 (2.30%) OAuth
6 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.30%) React
6 2 (2.30%) RESTful
6 2 (2.30%) YAML
7 1 (1.15%) Jest
7 1 (1.15%) Next.js
7 1 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.20%) Clustering
3 5 (5.75%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.60%) Replication
5 3 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.45%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.45%) Media Streaming
5 3 (3.45%) PKI
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) IVR
7 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.99%) Linux
2 16 (18.39%) Windows
3 10 (11.49%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.75%) Unix
5 3 (3.45%) Android
5 3 (3.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.15%) VMS
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.18%) DevOps
2 17 (19.54%) Agile
2 17 (19.54%) CI/CD
2 17 (19.54%) Migration
3 11 (12.64%) Roadmaps
3 11 (12.64%) Test Automation
4 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (10.34%) High Availability
5 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (10.34%) Network Design
5 9 (10.34%) Scrum
6 8 (9.20%) Kanban
6 8 (9.20%) Performance Monitoring
7 7 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (6.90%) Application Virtualisation
8 6 (6.90%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (6.90%) Software Engineering
9 5 (5.75%) Business Strategy
9 5 (5.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.59%) Python
2 22 (25.29%) PowerShell
3 10 (11.49%) SQL
4 7 (8.05%) C#
4 7 (8.05%) Go
5 6 (6.90%) Bash
6 4 (4.60%) Bicep
6 4 (4.60%) Java
6 4 (4.60%) VBScript
7 3 (3.45%) C
7 3 (3.45%) PHP
8 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.30%) Ruby
8 2 (2.30%) Scala
8 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
1 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.20%) CCNP
2 8 (9.20%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (5.75%) CCDP
4 4 (4.60%) Degree
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) CCIE
6 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.15%) MCSA
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (11.49%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.34%) Docker
3 4 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.30%) NFS
5 2 (2.30%) PowerDNS
5 2 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.30%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (19.54%) Terraform
2 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.49%) Puppet
4 6 (6.90%) Ansible
5 5 (5.75%) FortiGate
6 4 (4.60%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.60%) SCCM
7 3 (3.45%) Kibana
7 3 (3.45%) SCOM
7 3 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.30%) Grafana
8 2 (2.30%) vRealize
9 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.15%) Argo
9 1 (1.15%) Istio
9 1 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.15%) Nessus
9 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (39.08%) F5
2 22 (25.29%) Cisco
3 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 10 (11.49%) Palo Alto
5 8 (9.20%) Aruba
6 7 (8.05%) Arista
6 7 (8.05%) Fortinet
6 7 (8.05%) VMware
7 6 (6.90%) Infoblox
7 6 (6.90%) Nokia
7 6 (6.90%) Splunk
8 5 (5.75%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.45%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.45%) Citrix
9 3 (3.45%) Meraki
9 3 (3.45%) Oracle
9 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.45%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.30%) Blue Coat
10 2 (2.30%) Genesys