Load Balancing Contracts in London

Load Balancing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 304 297
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +52
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 42 92 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.53% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.59% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 64 137
10th Percentile £405 £325 £461
25th Percentile £440 £396 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £504 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% -16.08% -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £688 £752
England median daily rate £523 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.20
25th Percentile - - £46.38
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -34.46% +72.84%

All Process and 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 11,537 15,496 23,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.66% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,810 11,111 16,940
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 307 270
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.28
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

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 18 May 2025.

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

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 18 May 2025. 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 -4 5 £613 +6.74% 6
South London - 4 £820 - 2
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 2 (4.76%) Apache
1 2 (4.76%) JBoss
2 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (16.67%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) GitHub
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (11.90%) IaaS
4 5 (11.90%) Serverless
4 5 (11.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (9.52%) GCP
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) PaaS
7 2 (4.76%) Azure App Service
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (42.86%) Firewall
2 12 (28.57%) DNS
2 12 (28.57%) Network Security
3 8 (19.05%) VPN
4 6 (14.29%) WAN
5 5 (11.90%) BGP
5 5 (11.90%) DHCP
5 5 (11.90%) Wireless
6 4 (9.52%) LAN
7 3 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (7.14%) OSPF
7 3 (7.14%) SSL
7 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
7 3 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (7.14%) Wireshark
8 2 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.81%) Git
3 6 (14.29%) GitLab
4 4 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.76%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) Ant
6 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.38%) Maven
6 1 (2.38%) Mercurial
General
1 16 (38.10%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Advertising
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Architect
4 5 (11.90%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Network Operations Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.76%) Kafka
2 2 (4.76%) Middleware
2 2 (4.76%) NETCONF
2 2 (4.76%) Node.js
2 2 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (2.38%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.38%) JSON
3 1 (2.38%) REST
3 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 7 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.76%) Clustering
3 2 (4.76%) CMDB
3 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
3 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.76%) VMS
4 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 16 (38.10%) DevOps
3 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (23.81%) High Availability
5 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (19.05%) Migration
7 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (14.29%) Cloud Security
8 6 (14.29%) Microservices
9 5 (11.90%) Task Automation
10 4 (9.52%) Auto-Scaling
11 3 (7.14%) Architectural Design
11 3 (7.14%) Change Management
11 3 (7.14%) Configuration Management
11 3 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
11 3 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
11 3 (7.14%) Observability
11 3 (7.14%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) Python
2 13 (30.95%) Bash
3 6 (14.29%) Groovy
4 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.76%) Go
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) Java
6 1 (2.38%) Perl
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (14.29%) AWS Certification
5 5 (11.90%) CCNP
5 5 (11.90%) Degree
6 3 (7.14%) CISSP
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.38%) CCIE
8 1 (2.38%) CCNA
8 1 (2.38%) CEH
8 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
1 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (52.38%) Ansible
2 18 (42.86%) Terraform
3 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
4 8 (19.05%) Grafana
4 8 (19.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.76%) Istio
5 2 (4.76%) Podman
6 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Cisco
1 14 (33.33%) F5
2 7 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 6 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 4 (9.52%) Infoblox
4 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.14%) Arista
5 3 (7.14%) Google
5 3 (7.14%) Meraki
5 3 (7.14%) NetScout
5 3 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.14%) Splunk
6 2 (4.76%) Aruba
6 2 (4.76%) Blue Coat
6 2 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (4.76%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.76%) Sun
6 2 (4.76%) Zscaler