Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Load Balancing
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 29 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 51 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 15.55% 0.61% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.65% 0.78% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £315 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -49.23% +8.33% +84.62%
75th Percentile £345 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £519 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% -16.67% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 247 129 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 75.30% 79.14% 78.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 79 91
10th Percentile £133 £143 £145
25th Percentile £151 £203 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +9.38% -18.37%
75th Percentile £491 £560 £506
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 27
10th Percentile £17.18 £13.28 £13.70
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -5.73% +2.78%
75th Percentile £35.16 £20.00 £34.27
90th Percentile £49.80 £25.22 £37.18
North West median hourly rate £50.50 £32.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +57.81% +52.38% -40.00%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Liverpool +16 51 £330 -49.23% 4
Load Balancing
North West

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (7.84%) AWS
1 4 (7.84%) Azure
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (7.84%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 51 (100.00%) DNS
2 29 (56.86%) DMZ
3 26 (50.98%) BGP
3 26 (50.98%) Multicast
3 26 (50.98%) VPN
4 22 (43.14%) TCP/IP
5 21 (41.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 21 (41.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 18 (35.29%) BIG-IP
6 18 (35.29%) HTTP
6 18 (35.29%) SSL
6 18 (35.29%) Wireshark
7 4 (7.84%) DHCP
7 4 (7.84%) Firewall
7 4 (7.84%) NetScaler
8 3 (5.88%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 18 (35.29%) Fiddler
General
1 35 (68.63%) Banking
1 35 (68.63%) Investment Banking
2 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.84%) Finance
Job Titles
1 44 (86.27%) Network Engineer
2 30 (58.82%) Web Engineer
3 26 (50.98%) Cisco Engineer
3 26 (50.98%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 26 (50.98%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 26 (50.98%) Data Engineer
3 26 (50.98%) Data Network Engineer
3 26 (50.98%) Network Security Engineer
3 26 (50.98%) Security Engineer
4 18 (35.29%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 18 (35.29%) IP Network Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (41.18%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.84%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Windows
1 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
1 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) Data Loss Prevention
1 18 (35.29%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 4 (7.84%) Business Continuity
2 4 (7.84%) DevOps
2 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (7.84%) Mentoring
2 4 (7.84%) Operational Stability
2 4 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (7.84%) Project Delivery
2 4 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (5.88%) Business Strategy
3 3 (5.88%) Design Patterns
4 2 (3.92%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
System Software
1 25 (49.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (35.29%) Firmware
3 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.84%) Docker
3 4 (7.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (7.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (7.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) F5
2 26 (50.98%) Cisco
3 25 (49.02%) VMware
4 18 (35.29%) Blue Coat
4 18 (35.29%) McAfee
4 18 (35.29%) NetApp
5 4 (7.84%) Veeam