Load Balancing Contracts in the South East

Load Balancing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 143 190 186
Rank change year-on-year +47 -4 +18
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 16 15 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.27% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.32% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 31
10th Percentile £300 £314 -
25th Percentile £321 £355 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £516 £651
90th Percentile £613 £540 £688
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
England median hourly rate - £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -34.46% +72.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the South East

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the South East

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire +31 6 £563 +2.27% 2
Thames Valley +42 5 £448 +19.47% 3
Berkshire +33 4 £575 +31.43% 2
West Sussex - 3 £300 - 1
Surrey +15 1 £425 -15.00%
Buckinghamshire +13 1 £321 +7.00% 1
East Sussex -2 1 - -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Akamai
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (6.25%) Datadog
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Firepower
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco ISE
1 6 (37.50%) Junos
1 6 (37.50%) LAN
2 2 (12.50%) BIG-IP
2 2 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) BGP
3 1 (6.25%) DMZ
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) Multicast
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (6.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
1 3 (18.75%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Observability
5 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
6 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
6 1 (6.25%) Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) VB
3 3 (18.75%) Go
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) MCSE
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
1 6 (37.50%) FortiGate
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (18.75%) Grafana
3 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) F5
2 7 (43.75%) Cisco
3 6 (37.50%) Citrix
4 4 (25.00%) Juniper
5 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
5 3 (18.75%) Splunk
6 2 (12.50%) SAP
7 1 (6.25%) HP
7 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
7 1 (6.25%) VMware