Load Balancing Contracts in Reading

Load Balancing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 58 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - £715
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £438 £575
% change year-on-year +31.43% -23.91% +5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) Junos
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware