Network Load Balancing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Load Balancing (NLB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Network Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network 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 330 - 454
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 6 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% - 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% - 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £578 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £425
75th Percentile £650 - £563
90th Percentile - - £638
UK median daily rate £625 £465 £563
% change year-on-year +34.41% -17.33% +5.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Network 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%

Network Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Network Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Network 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 Network 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
South East - 3 £650 - 3
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland - 1 £500 - 1
Network Load Balancing
UK

Network 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 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) SSL
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) NGFW
3 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) SAML
2 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Application Security
2 3 (50.00%) Data Security
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) ForgeRock