Load Balancing Contracts in Manchester

Load Balancing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 90 82
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 +35
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 8 4 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 0.28% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.32% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 23
10th Percentile £419 - £330
25th Percentile £450 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 - £650
90th Percentile £650 - £698
North West median daily rate £550 £600 £493
% change year-on-year -8.33% +21.70% -21.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 821 1,240 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.90% 86.17% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 815 1,191
10th Percentile £306 £318 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £691 £683 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 79 50
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.48 £14.59
25th Percentile £22.16 £14.13 £16.85
Median hourly rate £50.99 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.10% +15.56% +21.62%
75th Percentile £72.50 £57.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £72.90 £66.40
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £28.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year +13.43% -8.32% +29.71%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Manchester

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Manchester

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in Manchester

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Manchester

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Altrincham - 1 - -
Load Balancing
North West

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) BGP
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) OSPF
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Service Continuity Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (62.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (25.00%) BCP
3 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Business Impact Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Runbook
3 2 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) CCIE
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Istio
2 1 (12.50%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto