Load Balancing Contract Job Trends

Load Balancing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 316 304
Rank change year-on-year -52 -12 +68
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 224 232 355
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.63% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.73% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 132 228
10th Percentile £360 £400 £399
25th Percentile £411 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -3.20%
75th Percentile £575 £664 £627
90th Percentile £691 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £578
% change year-on-year +1.01% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £58.95
25th Percentile - - £59.63
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £69.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - +156.31%

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 31,979 31,998 41,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.50% 86.61% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,013 19,257 27,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,115 1,171 1,588
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in the UK

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Top 15 Contract Job 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 23 November 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 -19 210 £513 +0.49% 51
UK excluding London 0 142 £500 +1.01% 43
North of England -10 68 £500 +3.90% 10
London -16 63 £515 -13.08% 17
Midlands +15 61 £400 -5.88% 9
Work from Home +12 61 £500 -18.37% 32
North West +4 60 £500 +6.10% 8
West Midlands +31 59 £400 -5.88% 9
Yorkshire -23 20 £499 +2.31% 2
South East -18 17 £525 +1.20% 15
South West -6 14 £708 +61.25% 4
East of England -12 4 £501 - 4
Scotland -9 3 £438 -7.89%
North East -6 2 £488 -11.36%
East Midlands -16 2 £620 -

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.79%) Apache
1 4 (1.79%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.89%) Confluence
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.89%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.88%) AWS
2 47 (20.98%) Azure
3 29 (12.95%) GitHub
4 23 (10.27%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (7.14%) GCP
6 14 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (5.36%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.91%) Amazon S3
9 11 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.91%) Serverless
10 8 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.68%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (2.68%) IaaS
12 5 (2.23%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (2.23%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 99 (44.20%) DNS
2 95 (42.41%) Firewall
3 52 (23.21%) VPN
4 49 (21.88%) WAN
5 48 (21.43%) Network Security
6 41 (18.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 38 (16.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 36 (16.07%) TCP/IP
9 34 (15.18%) BGP
10 31 (13.84%) MPLS
11 30 (13.39%) DMZ
12 28 (12.50%) IPsec
12 28 (12.50%) SSL
13 24 (10.71%) LAN
14 23 (10.27%) HTTP
15 22 (9.82%) BIG-IP
16 20 (8.93%) DHCP
17 19 (8.48%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (8.48%) Wi-Fi
18 16 (7.14%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.34%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.34%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.45%) MySQL
5 1 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.45%) Redis
5 1 (0.45%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.80%) Fiddler
3 12 (5.36%) Git
4 6 (2.68%) GitLab
4 6 (2.68%) JIRA
5 5 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.79%) Maven
6 4 (1.79%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.34%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.89%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.45%) Ant
9 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.45%) Gatling
9 1 (0.45%) gulp
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 52 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.84%) Banking
3 25 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.16%) Investment Banking
4 23 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.93%) Finance
6 19 (8.48%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.02%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.34%) Retail
11 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
12 1 (0.45%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (32.14%) Network Engineer
2 41 (18.30%) Architect
3 20 (8.93%) Support Engineer
4 19 (8.48%) Network Architect
5 17 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (6.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 14 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
8 14 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 14 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
9 13 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.91%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (4.91%) Web Engineer
11 10 (4.46%) IP Network Engineer
11 10 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.36%) OAuth
1 12 (5.36%) SAML
2 11 (4.91%) OAuth2
2 11 (4.91%) OpenID
3 10 (4.46%) 802.1X
4 6 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (2.68%) LDAP
5 4 (1.79%) Node.js
5 4 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.34%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.34%) Middleware
6 3 (1.34%) REST
7 2 (0.89%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.89%) React
7 2 (0.89%) RESTful
7 2 (0.89%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.89%) Spring
7 2 (0.89%) Swagger
7 2 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 31 (13.84%) Management Information System
3 19 (8.48%) PKI
4 14 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.80%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.57%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.57%) Replication
7 7 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.23%) SCADA
8 5 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.34%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.45%) CMDB
11 1 (0.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.18%) Linux
2 29 (12.95%) Windows
3 18 (8.04%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.02%) Unix
5 8 (3.57%) CentOS
6 6 (2.68%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.34%) Android
7 3 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (21.43%) DevOps
2 45 (20.09%) CI/CD
3 35 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (14.73%) Network Design
6 32 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 29 (12.95%) High Availability
8 28 (12.50%) Migration
9 27 (12.05%) Agile
10 26 (11.61%) Business Strategy
11 23 (10.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (9.38%) RBAC
13 18 (8.04%) Incident Response
13 18 (8.04%) ITIL
13 18 (8.04%) Performance Monitoring
14 17 (7.59%) Network Architecture
15 16 (7.14%) Configuration Management
16 15 (6.70%) Infrastructure Automation
17 14 (6.25%) Design Patterns
17 14 (6.25%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (31.25%) Python
2 39 (17.41%) Bash
3 36 (16.07%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.91%) Perl
5 9 (4.02%) Java
5 9 (4.02%) SQL
6 4 (1.79%) C#
6 4 (1.79%) Groovy
7 3 (1.34%) Bicep
7 3 (1.34%) Go
7 3 (1.34%) VB
8 2 (0.89%) BeanShell
8 2 (0.89%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.45%) C++
9 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (36.16%) Security Cleared
2 59 (26.34%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.25%) Degree
4 14 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.46%) CCNP
7 6 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.23%) CCIE
8 5 (2.23%) CCNA
8 5 (2.23%) CISSP
9 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.34%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.34%) CCSP
11 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.13%) SLA
2 5 (2.23%) GDPR
3 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.79%) NIST
3 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.89%) QA
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (12.50%) Docker
3 27 (12.05%) Active Directory
4 20 (8.93%) VMware NSX
5 9 (4.02%) vSphere
6 8 (3.57%) Firmware
7 5 (2.23%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (1.79%) Postfix
9 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.89%) XenApp
9 2 (0.89%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 59 (26.34%) Terraform
2 50 (22.32%) Ansible
3 25 (11.16%) Kubernetes
4 12 (5.36%) Grafana
4 12 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (4.91%) Argo
5 11 (4.91%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (4.02%) FortiGate
7 9 (4.02%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.23%) Packer
8 5 (2.23%) SCCM
9 4 (1.79%) SCOM
10 3 (1.34%) Istio
10 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.89%) CASB
11 2 (0.89%) Consul
11 2 (0.89%) Nagios
11 2 (0.89%) Puppet
12 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (39.29%) F5
2 65 (29.02%) VMware
3 53 (23.66%) Cisco
4 39 (17.41%) Juniper
5 26 (11.61%) Palo Alto
6 23 (10.27%) Microsoft
7 22 (9.82%) Blue Coat
8 21 (9.38%) McAfee
9 17 (7.59%) Meraki
10 12 (5.36%) NetApp
11 11 (4.91%) Citrix
12 10 (4.46%) Oracle
12 10 (4.46%) Splunk
13 9 (4.02%) CheckPoint
13 9 (4.02%) Fortinet
13 9 (4.02%) Pure Storage
13 9 (4.02%) Red Hat
14 8 (3.57%) SolarWinds
15 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow
16 4 (1.79%) Zscaler