Load Balancing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Load Balancing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 139 133
Rank change year-on-year +42 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 5 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.22% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.26% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 17
10th Percentile £345 £293 -
25th Percentile £381 £319 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £375 £480
Median % change year-on-year +19.47% -21.88% -11.93%
75th Percentile £521 £444 £688
90th Percentile £561 £478 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the Thames Valley

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the Thames Valley

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +33 4 £575 +31.43% 6
Buckinghamshire +13 1 £321 +7.00% 5
Load Balancing
South East

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (20.00%) Junos
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) Server Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) VMware