Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Load Balancing
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.35% 0.83% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.91% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
South West median daily rate £708 £431 £600
% change year-on-year +64.06% -28.13% +26.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 199 110 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.82% 90.91% 77.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 76 89
10th Percentile £263 £250 £160
25th Percentile £364 £396 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -4.88%
75th Percentile £581 £641 £588
90th Percentile £630 £728 £615
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 5 32
10th Percentile £37.25 £14.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -43.05% -18.75%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £41.25
90th Percentile - £20.01 £54.91
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year -11.54% +35.90% -22.23%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Somerset

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Taunton - 1 £550 -
Load Balancing
South West

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware