Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Preston

Load Balancing
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 0.97% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £316 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 - -
75th Percentile £349 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 61 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 80.58% 92.42% 87.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 40 25
10th Percentile £213 £334 £355
25th Percentile £472 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £534 £593
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -9.93% +35.52%
75th Percentile £762 £630 £645
90th Percentile £856 £671 £885
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +8.49% +6.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 32
10th Percentile £36.41 - £12.20
25th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £52.09 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +81.19% +79.02% -61.90%
75th Percentile £71.45 £47.12 £19.05
90th Percentile £71.50 £59.30 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £61.06 £28.75 £35.36
% change year-on-year +112.37% -18.69% -16.80%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Preston

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Blueprints
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft