Load Balancing Contracts

Load Balancing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 366 345
Rank change year-on-year -2 -21 +46
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 153 243 423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.56% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.65% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 151 298
10th Percentile £378 £363 £378
25th Percentile £425 £393 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £643 £688 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £508
% change year-on-year - -6.40% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £32.20
25th Percentile - - £46.38
Median hourly rate - £45.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.46% +72.84%
75th Percentile - £51.29 -
90th Percentile - £61.01 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £45.88 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -28 125 £500 +5.26% 79
UK excluding London -5 80 £475 - 50
London -8 46 £547 +12.12% 32
North of England +59 44 £513 -14.58% 23
Work from Home +33 40 £450 -11.24% 53
North West +37 38 £500 -16.67% 11
South East +44 16 £525 +16.67% 6
South West +37 9 £475 -20.83% 7
Midlands -21 9 £288 -23.33% 8
West Midlands -30 8 £288 -23.33% 8
Scotland +7 7 £450 -42.42% 4
Yorkshire +18 4 £450 - 10
North East - 2 £550 - 3
East of England +1 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.27%) Apache
2 4 (2.61%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.31%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) JBoss
4 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 55 (35.95%) AWS
2 21 (13.73%) GitHub
3 20 (13.07%) Azure
4 17 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
5 13 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.88%) GCP
7 9 (5.88%) IaaS
7 9 (5.88%) Serverless
8 8 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.61%) Cloudflare
12 4 (2.61%) PaaS
13 3 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 59 (38.56%) Firewall
2 45 (29.41%) WAN
3 35 (22.88%) DNS
4 31 (20.26%) VPN
5 28 (18.30%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (16.34%) Cisco ISE
6 25 (16.34%) NetScaler
7 23 (15.03%) LAN
7 23 (15.03%) Network Security
8 19 (12.42%) BGP
9 17 (11.11%) IPsec
10 14 (9.15%) DHCP
11 13 (8.50%) SSL
12 12 (7.84%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (7.84%) Wireless
13 11 (7.19%) OSPF
14 9 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
14 9 (5.88%) MPLS
15 8 (5.23%) Cisco Nexus
16 7 (4.58%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.31%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.31%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) Big Data
5 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.65%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 16 (10.46%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.88%) Git
3 7 (4.58%) GitLab
4 5 (3.27%) JIRA
5 3 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.65%) Ant
7 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.65%) Spinnaker
General
1 25 (16.34%) Finance
2 20 (13.07%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.54%) Banking
5 5 (3.27%) Retail
6 4 (2.61%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.31%) Advertising
8 2 (1.31%) Marketing
8 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Electronics
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (47.06%) Network Engineer
2 27 (17.65%) Architect
3 20 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (10.46%) AWS Architect
5 15 (9.80%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 13 (8.50%) Senior
7 9 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (5.23%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (5.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 7 (4.58%) Lead
10 6 (3.92%) Developer
11 5 (3.27%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (3.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Network Security Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Senior Network Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.07%) 802.1X
2 7 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.27%) Kafka
3 5 (3.27%) Node.js
3 5 (3.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.31%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.31%) RESTful
4 2 (1.31%) XML
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (0.65%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.65%) HTML
5 1 (0.65%) JSON
5 1 (0.65%) Middleware
5 1 (0.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.30%) Data Centre
2 19 (12.42%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.23%) PKI
4 4 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.31%) Clustering
6 2 (1.31%) CMDB
6 2 (1.31%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.65%) FMCG
7 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) SCADA
7 1 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.76%) Linux
2 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.61%) Unix
4 3 (1.96%) VMS
4 3 (1.96%) Windows
5 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (27.45%) High Availability
2 33 (21.57%) CI/CD
3 32 (20.92%) DevOps
4 30 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (18.95%) Network Design
6 27 (17.65%) Migration
7 25 (16.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 25 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (15.69%) Network Management
9 19 (12.42%) Containerisation
10 17 (11.11%) Agile
11 16 (10.46%) Architectural Design
11 16 (10.46%) Auto-Scaling
12 15 (9.80%) Impact Assessments
12 15 (9.80%) Network Architecture
13 14 (9.15%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (9.15%) Data Migration
13 14 (9.15%) Use Case
14 11 (7.19%) Task Automation
15 10 (6.54%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 40 (26.14%) Python
2 16 (10.46%) Bash
3 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.92%) VB
4 5 (3.27%) Go
4 5 (3.27%) Groovy
5 4 (2.61%) PHP
6 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.31%) Perl
7 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.31%) SQL
8 1 (0.65%) Java
Qualifications
1 66 (43.14%) Security Cleared
2 47 (30.72%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (7.19%) CCNP
5 9 (5.88%) CCNA
5 9 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.61%) CISSP
7 4 (2.61%) Degree
8 3 (1.96%) CCIE
9 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.65%) CCDP
10 1 (0.65%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (0.65%) CEH
10 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.65%) MCSE
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 5 (3.27%) SLA
2 3 (1.96%) GDPR
3 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.31%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Docker
2 4 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (22.88%) Terraform
2 30 (19.61%) Ansible
3 25 (16.34%) Kubernetes
4 13 (8.50%) Grafana
4 13 (8.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.58%) FortiGate
6 6 (3.92%) Istio
7 4 (2.61%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.31%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.31%) Puppet
9 1 (0.65%) Argo
9 1 (0.65%) Kibana
9 1 (0.65%) logstash
9 1 (0.65%) Podman
9 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.65%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 59 (38.56%) Cisco
2 44 (28.76%) F5
3 39 (25.49%) Palo Alto
4 20 (13.07%) Meraki
5 15 (9.80%) Juniper
6 10 (6.54%) CheckPoint
6 10 (6.54%) Citrix
7 7 (4.58%) Aruba
7 7 (4.58%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.58%) Infoblox
7 7 (4.58%) Microsoft
8 6 (3.92%) Arista
8 6 (3.92%) Google
8 6 (3.92%) Splunk
9 5 (3.27%) NetScout
9 5 (3.27%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.61%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.96%) Blue Coat
11 3 (1.96%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (1.96%) Ruckus Wireless