Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in London

Load Balancing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 308 280
Rank change year-on-year -34 -28 +19
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 107 51 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.39% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.42% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 33 65
10th Percentile £403 £400 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £775 £713
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £86.25 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in London

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in London

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Load Balancing in London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Load Balancing in London

Load Balancing
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 4 September 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
Central London -18 17 £425 -27.97% 7
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (3.74%) Confluence
2 3 (2.80%) Apache
2 3 (2.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 43 (40.19%) Azure
2 31 (28.97%) AWS
3 23 (21.50%) GitHub
4 21 (19.63%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (12.15%) GCP
6 11 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (6.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (6.54%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.54%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.54%) PowerApps
8 6 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.74%) Datadog
10 4 (3.74%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.74%) Serverless
11 3 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.80%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (2.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 51 (47.66%) DNS
2 48 (44.86%) Firewall
3 31 (28.97%) VPN
4 22 (20.56%) WAN
5 20 (18.69%) BGP
6 19 (17.76%) TCP/IP
7 16 (14.95%) Network Security
8 15 (14.02%) SSL
9 12 (11.21%) HTTP
10 10 (9.35%) Multicast
10 10 (9.35%) Wireless
11 9 (8.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 8 (7.48%) DHCP
12 8 (7.48%) SD-WAN
12 8 (7.48%) VLAN
13 7 (6.54%) HTTPS
13 7 (6.54%) LAN
14 6 (5.61%) Cisco Wireless
14 6 (5.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 5 (4.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.54%) Power BI
2 6 (5.61%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.80%) MySQL
4 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.93%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 15 (14.02%) GitLab
2 7 (6.54%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.67%) JIRA
4 2 (1.87%) Maven
4 2 (1.87%) MSI
5 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.23%) Finance
3 15 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.21%) Banking
6 5 (4.67%) Publishing
6 5 (4.67%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.74%) Legal
8 3 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.87%) German Language
9 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (26.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (24.30%) Network Engineer
3 13 (12.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) Architect
5 10 (9.35%) Senior
6 9 (8.41%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (6.54%) Implementation Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Cisco Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 4 (3.74%) Network Specialist
10 4 (3.74%) Security Specialist
10 4 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (44.86%) Terraform
2 5 (4.67%) REST
3 4 (3.74%) Kafka
4 3 (2.80%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.80%) Keycloak
4 3 (2.80%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.87%) eBPF
5 2 (1.87%) JSON
5 2 (1.87%) OAuth
5 2 (1.87%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.87%) OpenID
5 2 (1.87%) SAML
6 1 (0.93%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.93%) LDAP
6 1 (0.93%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.93%) Node.js
6 1 (0.93%) RESTful
6 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.21%) Cloud Native
1 12 (11.21%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.54%) Distributed Applications
4 6 (5.61%) Digital Signage
5 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (3.74%) PKI
6 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.80%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.87%) CMDB
7 2 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.87%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.93%) Clustering
8 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.93%) IoT
8 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (21.50%) Linux
2 9 (8.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.61%) Unix
4 5 (4.67%) Ubuntu
4 5 (4.67%) Windows
5 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.93%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.12%) DevOps
2 42 (39.25%) CI/CD
3 39 (36.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (22.43%) Containerisation
4 24 (22.43%) Observability
5 21 (19.63%) High Availability
6 17 (15.89%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (14.95%) Agile
7 16 (14.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (12.15%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (12.15%) Migration
10 12 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (11.21%) Project Delivery
11 11 (10.28%) Configuration Management
11 11 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.35%) AIOps
12 10 (9.35%) RBAC
13 9 (8.41%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (8.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.17%) Python
2 13 (12.15%) Bash
3 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.48%) Bicep
5 7 (6.54%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.67%) Perl
7 2 (1.87%) Java
7 2 (1.87%) SQL
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.93%) R
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (35.51%) Security Cleared
2 35 (32.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) CCNP
3 7 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.67%) CCIE
5 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.80%) CISSP
6 3 (2.80%) Degree
6 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.87%) CCIE Security
7 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) NIST
2 1 (0.93%) GDPR
2 1 (0.93%) GRC
2 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.93%) PSD2
2 1 (0.93%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Docker
2 6 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.80%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.80%) vSphere
5 1 (0.93%) NFS
5 1 (0.93%) Postfix
5 1 (0.93%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.93%) Varnish
5 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (37.38%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.43%) Ansible
3 22 (20.56%) Grafana
3 22 (20.56%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.48%) FortiGate
4 8 (7.48%) Istio
5 7 (6.54%) Puppet
6 6 (5.61%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (4.67%) Argo
8 4 (3.74%) systemd
9 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (2.80%) yum
10 2 (1.87%) SCCM
10 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.87%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.93%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.93%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (28.97%) F5
2 22 (20.56%) Cisco
3 14 (13.08%) Palo Alto
4 10 (9.35%) AppDynamics
4 10 (9.35%) Dynatrace
4 10 (9.35%) Splunk
5 8 (7.48%) Fortinet
5 8 (7.48%) VMware
6 7 (6.54%) Arista
7 6 (5.61%) Google
7 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
7 6 (5.61%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.74%) Aruba
8 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.80%) Oracle
9 3 (2.80%) Riverbed
9 3 (2.80%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.87%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.87%) Juniper
10 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow