Load Balancing Contracts in the North of England

Load Balancing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 152 140
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 +32
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 33 13 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.83% 0.31% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.37% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 49
10th Percentile £385 £539 £343
25th Percentile £416 £578 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 - £588
90th Percentile £650 - £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,518 3,474 4,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.82% 83.99% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,245 2,099 3,156
10th Percentile £268 £306 £294
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £556 £586 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £686
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 245 208
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.48 £13.87 £18.19
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.30 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -13.65% +48.35%
75th Percentile £44.78 £48.75 £45.88
90th Percentile £73.75 £69.90 £56.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the North of England

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the North of England

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the North of England

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the North of England

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
North West +8 31 £600 - 11
Yorkshire -15 4 - - 3
North East - 1 £425 - 1
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (9.09%) Serverless
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (6.06%) Azure
3 2 (6.06%) GitHub
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.03%) Google Ads
4 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (54.55%) Firewall
2 16 (48.48%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (45.45%) Cisco ISE
3 15 (45.45%) NetScaler
3 15 (45.45%) WAN
4 10 (30.30%) DNS
5 8 (24.24%) DMZ
5 8 (24.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 8 (24.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 8 (24.24%) Network Security
6 1 (3.03%) BGP
6 1 (3.03%) DHCP
6 1 (3.03%) HTTP
6 1 (3.03%) OSPF
6 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.03%) Big Data
1 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Advertising
4 1 (3.03%) Marketing
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Lead
3 3 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Service Continuity Leader
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Design Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Network Design Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) 802.1X
2 3 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) Data Centre
2 6 (18.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Network Design
1 18 (54.55%) Network Management
2 14 (42.42%) Network Architecture
3 12 (36.36%) Impact Assessments
4 6 (18.18%) Business Strategy
5 3 (9.09%) Agile
5 3 (9.09%) Architecture Governance
5 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.09%) Design Patterns
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (9.09%) High Availability
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.06%) BCP
6 2 (6.06%) Business Continuity
6 2 (6.06%) Business Continuity Planning
6 2 (6.06%) Change Management
6 2 (6.06%) ITIL
6 2 (6.06%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (6.06%) Bash
3 1 (3.03%) Groovy
3 1 (3.03%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.03%) Perl
3 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (48.48%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) CCIE
3 1 (3.03%) CCNA
3 1 (3.03%) CCNP
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Cisco
1 19 (57.58%) Palo Alto
2 14 (42.42%) Meraki
3 9 (27.27%) F5
4 8 (24.24%) VMware
5 2 (6.06%) Computacenter
6 1 (3.03%) Apple
6 1 (3.03%) Criteo
6 1 (3.03%) Databricks
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft