Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Load Balancing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 110 142
Rank change year-on-year -2 +32 +36
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 3 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% 0.16% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £428 £401 £463
25th Percentile £431 £403 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £583
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -29.18% +5.91%
75th Percentile £469 £428 £703
90th Percentile £473 £434 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 1,450 1,603 2,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.19% 86.37% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 974 1,501
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £388 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 46 59
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.63 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +9.16% -12.82%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.89
90th Percentile £30.00 £51.50 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Load Balancing
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 16 September 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 +5 3 £450 +9.09% 2
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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) IPsec
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Unified Communications
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Field Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Field Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) BeanShell
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle