Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Reading

Load Balancing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 74 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.12% 0.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £593 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% - -
75th Percentile £618 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £350 £550
% change year-on-year +49.93% -36.36% -17.60%

All Process & 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 707 733 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.50% 93.26% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 391 636
10th Percentile £313 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -0.05%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £615
90th Percentile £670 £663 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 6 35
10th Percentile £28.70 £27.63 £20.17
25th Percentile £58.00 £37.14 £54.70
Median hourly rate £81.50 £62.46 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year +30.49% +1.31% -5.16%
75th Percentile £97.50 £72.33 £66.75
90th Percentile £107.00 £76.03 £86.78
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.75 £61.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year -4.46% +0.81% -5.68%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Reading

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware