Load Balancing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Load Balancing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Balancing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 134 146
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -38
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 7 18 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.67% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 10
10th Percentile £301 - £396
25th Percentile £341 £450 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £480 £545
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% -11.93% +11.22%
75th Percentile £531 £688 £634
90th Percentile £588 £700 £689
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Load Balancing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,348 2,701 3,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.25% 91.93% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,878 2,085
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 62 85
10th Percentile £15.52 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.61 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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

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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 26 April 2024. 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
Buckinghamshire +28 4 £300 -37.50% 2
Berkshire -17 2 £438 -23.91% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £625 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) IPsec
2 2 (28.57%) Junos
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) MPLS
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Architect
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Architect
3 1 (14.29%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Juniper
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam