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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 338 299
Rank change year-on-year -24 -39 +69
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 215 228 361
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.63% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.73% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 132 230
10th Percentile £339 £400 £400
25th Percentile £410 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £627
90th Percentile £688 £713 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
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 31,777 31,113 41,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.78% 86.30% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,898 18,698 27,863
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,100 1,096 1,595
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%
75th Percentile £44.77 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.93 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.30% -23.75% +53.45%

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 18 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 18 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 -31 200 £513 -1.20% 89
UK excluding London +7 138 £500 - 57
North of England -12 65 £500 +2.56% 11
Midlands +11 60 £400 -5.88% 13
North West +5 59 £500 +5.26% 7
West Midlands +20 58 £400 -5.88% 12
Work from Home -1 58 £500 -23.08% 64
London -24 58 £515 -14.17% 42
Yorkshire -32 18 £518 +6.15% 3
South East -16 17 £531 +2.36% 21
South West -5 13 £704 +60.40% 3
Scotland +2 4 £450 -5.26% 3
East of England -15 4 £501 - 3
North East -7 2 £488 -11.36% 1
East Midlands -22 2 £620 - 1

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 (1.86%) Apache
1 4 (1.86%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.93%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.72%) AWS
2 42 (19.53%) Azure
3 24 (11.16%) GitHub
4 18 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (6.51%) GCP
6 13 (6.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (5.58%) OpenShift
8 11 (5.12%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.12%) Serverless
9 8 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.79%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (2.79%) IaaS
11 5 (2.33%) AWS Direct Connect
11 5 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.33%) Route 53
12 4 (1.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (45.58%) DNS
2 88 (40.93%) Firewall
3 51 (23.72%) VPN
4 49 (22.79%) WAN
5 45 (20.93%) Network Security
6 41 (19.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 38 (17.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 35 (16.28%) TCP/IP
9 33 (15.35%) BGP
10 30 (13.95%) DMZ
10 30 (13.95%) MPLS
11 29 (13.49%) IPsec
12 27 (12.56%) SSL
13 26 (12.09%) LAN
14 23 (10.70%) HTTP
15 22 (10.23%) BIG-IP
16 20 (9.30%) Cisco ISE
16 20 (9.30%) DHCP
17 18 (8.37%) Wi-Fi
18 15 (6.98%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.47%) MySQL
5 1 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.47%) Redis
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (10.70%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.05%) Fiddler
3 12 (5.58%) Git
4 7 (3.26%) GitLab
5 6 (2.79%) JIRA
6 5 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.86%) Maven
7 4 (1.86%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.40%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.40%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.47%) Ant
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) Gatling
10 1 (0.47%) gulp
10 1 (0.47%) JMeter
10 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 51 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.95%) Banking
3 25 (11.63%) Investment Banking
4 24 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.16%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.84%) Finance
6 17 (7.91%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.72%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.26%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Retail
12 1 (0.47%) iGaming
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.47%) Military
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
12 1 (0.47%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (33.49%) Network Engineer
2 40 (18.60%) Architect
3 20 (9.30%) Support Engineer
4 19 (8.84%) Network Architect
5 18 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (6.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 15 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.51%) 3rd Line Support
7 14 (6.51%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 14 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (6.51%) Operations Engineer
8 11 (5.12%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (5.12%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.12%) Web Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) IP Network Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.12%) OAuth
1 11 (5.12%) SAML
2 10 (4.65%) 802.1X
2 10 (4.65%) OAuth2
2 10 (4.65%) OpenID
3 6 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.86%) LDAP
4 4 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.40%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (1.40%) Middleware
6 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.93%) Node.js
6 2 (0.93%) React
6 2 (0.93%) RESTful
6 2 (0.93%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.93%) Spring
6 2 (0.93%) XML
6 2 (0.93%) YAML
7 1 (0.47%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.14%) Data Centre
2 31 (14.42%) Management Information System
3 19 (8.84%) PKI
4 14 (6.51%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.72%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.72%) Private Cloud
5 8 (3.72%) Replication
6 7 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.86%) SCADA
9 3 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.35%) Linux
2 28 (13.02%) Windows
3 17 (7.91%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.19%) Unix
5 8 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.26%) CentOS
7 5 (2.33%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.40%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.40%) Android
8 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (19.53%) DevOps
2 40 (18.60%) CI/CD
3 33 (15.35%) Containerisation
4 32 (14.88%) Network Design
5 31 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (13.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (13.02%) High Availability
8 26 (12.09%) Business Strategy
9 24 (11.16%) Agile
9 24 (11.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (11.16%) Migration
10 21 (9.77%) RBAC
11 18 (8.37%) Incident Response
12 17 (7.91%) ITIL
12 17 (7.91%) Network Architecture
13 16 (7.44%) Performance Monitoring
14 15 (6.98%) Configuration Management
14 15 (6.98%) Infrastructure Automation
15 14 (6.51%) Design Patterns
15 14 (6.51%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.63%) Python
2 36 (16.74%) Bash
3 33 (15.35%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.12%) Perl
5 9 (4.19%) Java
6 7 (3.26%) SQL
7 4 (1.86%) Groovy
7 4 (1.86%) VB
8 3 (1.40%) Go
9 2 (0.93%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.93%) C#
9 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) Bicep
10 1 (0.47%) C++
10 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (35.35%) Security Cleared
2 54 (25.12%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (6.51%) Degree
3 14 (6.51%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.72%) CCNP
6 6 (2.79%) CCNA
7 5 (2.33%) CISSP
8 4 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.40%) CCIE
9 3 (1.40%) CCIE Security
9 3 (1.40%) CCSP
10 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.93%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.72%) SLA
2 5 (2.33%) GDPR
3 4 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.86%) NIST
3 4 (1.86%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.40%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (21.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (12.56%) Docker
3 26 (12.09%) Active Directory
4 19 (8.84%) VMware NSX
5 9 (4.19%) vSphere
6 8 (3.72%) Firmware
7 5 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.40%) Postfix
9 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.47%) XenApp
9 1 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (25.12%) Terraform
2 51 (23.72%) Ansible
3 24 (11.16%) Kubernetes
4 12 (5.58%) Argo
4 12 (5.58%) Grafana
5 11 (5.12%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.12%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.65%) FortiGate
7 9 (4.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (4.19%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.33%) Packer
8 5 (2.33%) SCCM
9 4 (1.86%) SCOM
10 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.93%) CASB
11 2 (0.93%) Consul
11 2 (0.93%) Nagios
11 2 (0.93%) Puppet
12 1 (0.47%) Istio
12 1 (0.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 87 (40.47%) F5
2 63 (29.30%) VMware
3 52 (24.19%) Cisco
4 39 (18.14%) Juniper
5 26 (12.09%) Palo Alto
6 22 (10.23%) Blue Coat
7 21 (9.77%) McAfee
8 20 (9.30%) Microsoft
9 16 (7.44%) Meraki
10 12 (5.58%) NetApp
11 10 (4.65%) Citrix
11 10 (4.65%) Oracle
11 10 (4.65%) Splunk
12 9 (4.19%) Fortinet
12 9 (4.19%) Pure Storage
12 9 (4.19%) Red Hat
13 8 (3.72%) SolarWinds
14 7 (3.26%) CheckPoint
15 5 (2.33%) ServiceNow
16 4 (1.86%) Zscaler