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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 370 419
Rank change year-on-year +16 +49 +80
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 19 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.005% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.007% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 2
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £455 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.09%
75th Percentile £525 - £438
90th Percentile £544 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £465 £499
% change year-on-year +7.53% -6.77% -13.26%

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 13,658 15,365 19,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.02% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,214 9,255 13,222
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,315 1,608 1,218
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.10 £75.00 £76.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 - 9 £488 - 2
Scotland - 6 £500 - 7
North of England - 3 £463 -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
Midlands - 1 £425 -
North West - 1 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
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 5 (26.32%) nginx
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) GitHub
2 8 (42.11%) Serverless
2 8 (42.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (36.84%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
7 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon Macie
8 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (10.53%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) NGFW
3 2 (10.53%) DNS
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 2 (10.53%) SSL
3 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.53%) VPN
3 2 (10.53%) Wireless
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (10.53%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) GitLab
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
1 7 (36.84%) Security Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Site Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Security Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) JSON
2 4 (21.05%) HTML
2 4 (21.05%) OAuth
2 4 (21.05%) OAuth2
2 4 (21.05%) REST
2 4 (21.05%) RESTful
2 4 (21.05%) SOAP
2 4 (21.05%) XML
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
3 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Zero Trust
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
3 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (36.84%) Incident Management
4 7 (36.84%) Runbook
5 6 (31.58%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (31.58%) Observability
6 4 (21.05%) API Development
6 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
6 4 (21.05%) Data Mapping
6 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
6 4 (21.05%) High Availability
6 4 (21.05%) Microservices
6 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) User Stories
7 3 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Bash
2 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
3 4 (21.05%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) Perl
4 1 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
1 2 (10.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Ansible
2 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 6 (31.58%) Grafana
3 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
4 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (15.79%) HAProxy
6 2 (10.53%) Fluentd
6 2 (10.53%) Kustomize
6 2 (10.53%) Nagios
6 2 (10.53%) Puppet
7 1 (5.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) CrowdStrike
1 7 (36.84%) F5
2 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
2 4 (21.05%) Pega
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
3 3 (15.79%) Commvault
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) Qualys
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) Aruba
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
5 1 (5.26%) UiPath