Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in the South West

Load Balancing
England > South West

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 120 149
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 +18
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 6 15 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.60% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.71% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 4
10th Percentile £568 £406 £408
25th Percentile £594 £410 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +40.54%
75th Percentile £719 £750 £741
90th Percentile £753 £854 £746
England median daily rate £500 £525 £569
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.69% -5.21%

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 1,806 2,110 2,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.48% 83.93% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,209 1,886
10th Percentile £213 £303 £313
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £721 £731 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 201 277
10th Percentile £15.25 £22.50 £21.64
25th Percentile £18.87 £46.25 £48.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -0.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.44 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in the South West

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Load Balancing

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 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the South West

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
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 16 October 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
Dorset - 3 - -
Somerset - 2 £550 -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Android
1 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) BCP
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) MODAF
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware