Load Balancing Contracts in the South West

Load Balancing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 102 140 151
Rank change year-on-year +38 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 9 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.54% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.64% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 12
10th Percentile £406 - £328
25th Percentile £450 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +26.32% -9.35%
75th Percentile £530 £694 £531
90th Percentile £630 £741 £573
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the South West

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +24 6 £463 - 4
Devon +6 1 £413 -31.25% 5
Somerset 0 1 £650 - 2
Cornwall - 1 £500 -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Google Ads
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
2 3 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) BIG-IP
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (11.11%) VoIP
4 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (11.11%) Advertising
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
1 3 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (33.33%) High Availability
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Security Management
2 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security Management
2 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Inventory Management
3 1 (11.11%) Monetization
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Aruba
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) F5
1 2 (22.22%) Infoblox
1 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Apple
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Criteo
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) Ruckus Wireless
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 1 (11.11%) Zscaler