Load Balancing Contracts in the North West

Load Balancing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 125 87
Rank change year-on-year +43 -38 +42
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 38 12 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.93% 0.44% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 0.50% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 52
10th Percentile £413 - £288
25th Percentile £454 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £606 - £650
90th Percentile £648 - £700
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
England median hourly rate - £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -34.46% +72.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 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
Cumbria +23 25 £575 - 1
Manchester +23 12 £475 -20.83% 9
Merseyside +4 1 £650 +8.33%
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 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (15.79%) GitHub
3 5 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.89%) Serverless
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (5.26%) Azure
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.63%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 23 (60.53%) WAN
2 22 (57.89%) Firewall
3 21 (55.26%) NetScaler
4 18 (47.37%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (44.74%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (18.42%) VPN
7 6 (15.79%) Broadband
7 6 (15.79%) Converged Networks
7 6 (15.79%) DNS
7 6 (15.79%) LAN
7 6 (15.79%) Network Security
8 5 (13.16%) BGP
8 5 (13.16%) OSPF
9 4 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (10.53%) HSRP
9 4 (10.53%) IPsec
10 2 (5.26%) Wireless
11 1 (2.63%) DHCP
11 1 (2.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) Big Data
2 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.63%) Advertising
2 1 (2.63%) Marketing
2 1 (2.63%) Retail
2 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (68.42%) Network Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Architect
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Service Continuity Leader
6 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Design Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Network Design Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Design Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Firewall Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Network Design Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (36.84%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) Network Management
2 19 (50.00%) Network Design
3 14 (36.84%) Impact Assessments
3 14 (36.84%) Network Architecture
4 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.79%) DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (15.79%) High Availability
5 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.53%) Analytics
6 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 4 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (7.89%) Agile
7 3 (7.89%) Auto-Scaling
7 3 (7.89%) Configuration Management
7 3 (7.89%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (7.89%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (7.89%) Digital Twin
7 3 (7.89%) Migration
7 3 (7.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) Python
2 2 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.63%) Perl
3 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (71.05%) Security Cleared
2 24 (63.16%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.42%) CCNA
3 7 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.63%) CCIE
5 1 (2.63%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
3 3 (7.89%) Istio
3 3 (7.89%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 26 (68.42%) Cisco
2 24 (63.16%) Palo Alto
3 16 (42.11%) Meraki
4 1 (2.63%) Apple
4 1 (2.63%) Criteo
4 1 (2.63%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft