Network Load Balancing Contracts in the South East

Network Load Balancing (NLB)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Network Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 - 205
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 9 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £520 - -
90th Percentile £529 - -
England median daily rate £488 £375 £473
% change year-on-year +30.00% -20.63% -17.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Network 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 3,150 4,135 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.93% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,507 3,413
10th Percentile £250 £260 £263
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 328 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.23
Median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%
75th Percentile £50.50 £70.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £74.75 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Network Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Load Balancing in the South East

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Network Load Balancing in the South East

Network Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Load Balancing in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Load Balancing in the South East

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Load Balancing in the South East

Network 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 Network Load Balancing within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Surrey - 7 £488 -
Thames Valley - 2 £425 - 1
Berkshire - 1 £425 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Network Load Balancing
England

Network 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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) NGFW
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
1 7 (77.78%) Security Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (77.78%) Incident Management
1 7 (77.78%) Runbook
1 7 (77.78%) Zero Trust
2 3 (33.33%) Data Security
2 3 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) API Development
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) OCR
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) CrowdStrike
1 7 (77.78%) F5
2 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) Qualys
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Pega
4 1 (11.11%) UiPath