Load Balancing Contracts in the North West

Load Balancing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Balancing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 85 138
Rank change year-on-year -40 +53 -4
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 12 72 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.43% 2.24% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 2.47% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 51 35
10th Percentile - £288 £459
25th Percentile - £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile - £650 £694
90th Percentile - £700 £700
England median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Load Balancing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the North West

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the North West

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the North West

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Manchester -25 6 £600 +9.09% 3
Lancashire +2 3 - -
Cumbria - 2 - -
Merseyside +16 1 £600 +84.62%
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) nginx
1 2 (16.67%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) HTTP
2 3 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (25.00%) SSL
2 3 (25.00%) Wireless
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) NetScaler
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) German Language
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) JDBC
1 3 (25.00%) JPA
1 3 (25.00%) JWT
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) WebSockets
2 2 (16.67%) 802.1X
2 2 (16.67%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) CentOS
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (25.00%) Kanban
4 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Information Security
5 2 (16.67%) Network Design
5 2 (16.67%) Network Management
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Go
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Ruby
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Consul
1 2 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (16.67%) Graphite
1 2 (16.67%) HAProxy
1 2 (16.67%) Istio
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) linkerd
1 2 (16.67%) Packer
1 2 (16.67%) Podman
1 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (16.67%) Puppet
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
1 2 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Meraki
2 2 (16.67%) PagerDuty
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) VMware