Load Balancing Contracts in Scotland

Load Balancing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 109 120 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 7 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile £418 £408 -
25th Percentile £425 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £782 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.42% - -
75th Percentile £475 £830 -
90th Percentile £535 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £478 £550
% change year-on-year -0.52% -13.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in Scotland

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +4 3 £425 -48.80% 4
Glasgow +1 3 £450 +7.78% 5
Renfrewshire - 1 £550 - 1
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (42.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) IPsec
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
1 3 (42.86%) Unified Communications
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
1 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Investment Management
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 3 (42.86%) Wealth Management
3 3 (42.86%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) F5
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat