Load Balancing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 256 258 300
Rank change year-on-year +2 +42 +21
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 80 142 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.68% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.81% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 79 122
10th Percentile £300 - £289
25th Percentile £413 £363 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -6.40% -3.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £592
90th Percentile £628 - £688
UK median daily rate £475 £478 £550
% change year-on-year -0.52% -13.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
UK median hourly rate - £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -34.46% +72.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +50 44 £513 -14.58% 22
North West +43 38 £500 -16.67% 11
South East +47 16 £525 +16.67% 13
South West +38 9 £475 -20.83% 8
Midlands -24 9 £288 -23.33% 8
West Midlands -33 8 £288 -23.33% 8
Scotland +11 7 £450 -42.42% 5
Yorkshire +11 4 £450 - 10
North East - 2 £550 - 2
East of England -2 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.25%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.00%) AWS
2 11 (13.75%) Azure
3 10 (12.50%) GitHub
4 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.75%) IaaS
7 3 (3.75%) Serverless
8 2 (2.50%) Akamai
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (2.50%) GCP
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (42.50%) WAN
2 29 (36.25%) Firewall
3 23 (28.75%) Cisco ISE
4 22 (27.50%) NetScaler
4 22 (27.50%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (25.00%) VPN
6 18 (22.50%) LAN
7 16 (20.00%) DNS
8 15 (18.75%) IPsec
9 14 (17.50%) BGP
10 11 (13.75%) Network Security
11 10 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (10.00%) DHCP
12 8 (10.00%) MPLS
13 7 (8.75%) Junos
13 7 (8.75%) OSPF
14 6 (7.50%) Broadband
14 6 (7.50%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (7.50%) Converged Networks
14 6 (7.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.25%) Big Data
3 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.00%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Banking
5 3 (3.75%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.75%) Retail
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing
7 1 (1.25%) Advertising
7 1 (1.25%) Electronics
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (58.75%) Network Engineer
2 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 7 (8.75%) Architect
3 7 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (8.75%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (6.25%) Lead
4 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Network Support
5 4 (5.00%) Network Support Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Senior
5 4 (5.00%) Service Continuity Leader
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Architect
6 3 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Scrum Master
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.50%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.75%) Kafka
2 3 (3.75%) Node.js
2 3 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.25%) HTML
3 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.50%) PKI
3 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.25%) FMCG
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) VMS
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.50%) Network Design
1 22 (27.50%) Network Management
2 19 (23.75%) High Availability
3 14 (17.50%) DevOps
3 14 (17.50%) Impact Assessments
3 14 (17.50%) Network Architecture
4 11 (13.75%) Agile
4 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
5 9 (11.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (7.50%) ITIL
8 6 (7.50%) Preventative Maintenance
9 5 (6.25%) Business Impact Analysis
9 5 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (6.25%) Impact Analysis
9 5 (6.25%) Roadmaps
9 5 (6.25%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.50%) Python
2 6 (7.50%) VB
3 4 (5.00%) Bash
4 3 (3.75%) Go
5 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.25%) Perl
5 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (11.25%) DV Cleared
5 8 (10.00%) CCNA
6 3 (3.75%) CCNP
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.25%) CCDP
8 1 (1.25%) CCIE
8 1 (1.25%) CISSP
8 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.25%) Degree
8 1 (1.25%) MCSE
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 5 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 10 (12.50%) Terraform
2 8 (10.00%) Ansible
3 6 (7.50%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.75%) Grafana
4 3 (3.75%) Istio
4 3 (3.75%) Kustomize
4 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (52.50%) Cisco
2 30 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 21 (26.25%) F5
4 16 (20.00%) Meraki
5 13 (16.25%) Juniper
6 7 (8.75%) Citrix
7 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.75%) Infoblox
8 3 (3.75%) Splunk
9 2 (2.50%) Aruba
9 2 (2.50%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.50%) Google
9 2 (2.50%) HP
9 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.50%) SAP
9 2 (2.50%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.25%) Arista
10 1 (1.25%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.25%) Databricks
10 1 (1.25%) Fortinet