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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 282 325
Rank change year-on-year -13 +43 -11
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 107 149 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.66% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.74% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 104 120
10th Percentile - £288 £413
25th Percentile £363 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -7.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £551 £591 £641
90th Percentile £600 £688 £695
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -34.46% +169.23% -64.63%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 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
West Midlands +58 55 £375 -3.23% 7
Midlands +51 55 £375 -16.67% 13
East of England +6 20 £534 -9.64% 4
North of England -37 13 £600 +20.00% 3
North West -30 11 £600 +21.70% 2
South East -6 8 £463 -7.50% 6
South West 0 7 £700 +41.77% 2
Scotland - 4 £425 - 1
Yorkshire +5 2 - - 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 8 (7.48%) IIS
2 4 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) nginx
3 1 (0.93%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (15.89%) Azure
2 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.74%) AWS
3 4 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (2.80%) BigCommerce
5 2 (1.87%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.93%) GCP
6 1 (0.93%) PaaS
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (57.01%) VPN
2 57 (53.27%) WAN
3 47 (43.93%) IPsec
4 44 (41.12%) BGP
4 44 (41.12%) Junos
4 44 (41.12%) MPLS
5 35 (32.71%) Firewall
6 16 (14.95%) LAN
7 14 (13.08%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (7.48%) SAN
9 7 (6.54%) DNS
9 7 (6.54%) SD-WAN
10 6 (5.61%) DHCP
11 5 (4.67%) Fibre Channel
11 5 (4.67%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
12 4 (3.74%) NetScaler
12 4 (3.74%) Network Security
12 4 (3.74%) Unified Communications
12 4 (3.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Fiddler
1 4 (3.74%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.80%) JIRA
2 3 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.93%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) JUnit
3 1 (0.93%) Mockito
3 1 (0.93%) TestNG
General
1 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
2 9 (8.41%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.67%) Finance
4 4 (3.74%) German Language
4 4 (3.74%) Legal
5 3 (2.80%) Marketing
5 3 (2.80%) Retail
6 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 30 (28.04%) Network Engineer
2 24 (22.43%) 3rd Line Support
3 23 (21.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 22 (20.56%) WAN Engineer
5 21 (19.63%) Network Support
6 12 (11.21%) Support Engineer
7 10 (9.35%) Administrator
7 10 (9.35%) Senior
8 9 (8.41%) Full Stack Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Architect
9 8 (7.48%) Java Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Senior Java Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Server Administrator
12 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) VMWare Administrator
13 4 (3.74%) Network Support Engineer
13 4 (3.74%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) CSS
1 12 (11.21%) HTML
1 12 (11.21%) React
2 8 (7.48%) .NET
3 4 (3.74%) .NET Framework
3 4 (3.74%) SAML
3 4 (3.74%) Spring
4 3 (2.80%) JDBC
4 3 (2.80%) JPA
4 3 (2.80%) JWT
4 3 (2.80%) VML
4 3 (2.80%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.87%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.93%) cloud-init
6 1 (0.93%) Middleware
6 1 (0.93%) REST
6 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 50 (46.73%) PKI
2 8 (7.48%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.80%) Clustering
4 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.93%) Replication
4 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.21%) Windows
2 9 (8.41%) Linux
3 6 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.67%) CentOS
5 4 (3.74%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.87%) Unix
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.30%) DevOps
2 23 (21.50%) Network Design
3 21 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (17.76%) Agile
5 14 (13.08%) CI/CD
5 14 (13.08%) Software Engineering
6 12 (11.21%) Identity Management
7 10 (9.35%) Full Stack Development
8 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (6.54%) Migration
10 5 (4.67%) Task Automation
10 5 (4.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 4 (3.74%) API Management
11 4 (3.74%) Change Control
11 4 (3.74%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (3.74%) High Availability
11 4 (3.74%) Microservices
11 4 (3.74%) Patch Management
11 4 (3.74%) Project Delivery
11 4 (3.74%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.02%) Java
2 10 (9.35%) TypeScript
3 9 (8.41%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.48%) SQL
5 5 (4.67%) Bash
6 2 (1.87%) Python
7 1 (0.93%) Go
7 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) Ruby
7 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (46.73%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) Degree
4 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.80%) CCNA
6 1 (0.93%) CCIE
6 1 (0.93%) CCNP
6 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) MCSE
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (0.93%) NCSC
1 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 12 (11.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.61%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.67%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.67%) VMware Server
3 5 (4.67%) vSphere
4 4 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.48%) SCOM
2 6 (5.61%) FortiGate
3 5 (4.67%) SCCM
3 5 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (4.67%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.87%) Terraform
5 1 (0.93%) Ansible
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.93%) Consul
5 1 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.93%) Graphite
5 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.93%) Istio
5 1 (0.93%) linkerd
5 1 (0.93%) Packer
5 1 (0.93%) Puppet
5 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (42.06%) Juniper
2 21 (19.63%) Cisco
2 21 (19.63%) F5
3 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.35%) Palo Alto
5 9 (8.41%) Aruba
5 9 (8.41%) VMware
6 7 (6.54%) Meraki
7 3 (2.80%) Adobe
7 3 (2.80%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.80%) Dell
7 3 (2.80%) Intel
7 3 (2.80%) Oracle
7 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.80%) SAP
7 3 (2.80%) Sitecore
7 3 (2.80%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.87%) Citrix
8 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.87%) Splunk