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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 348 343
Rank change year-on-year -27 -5 +50
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 150 233 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.55% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.63% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 148 288
10th Percentile £368 £329 £378
25th Percentile £425 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% -
75th Percentile £594 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 26,783 36,704 51,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.97% 86.15% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,188 23,629 35,390
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,440 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 18 May 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 18 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
England -33 121 £523 +10.00% 133
UK excluding London +6 80 £475 - 86
North of England +51 42 £513 -14.58% 32
London -5 42 £575 +14.20% 60
North West +37 37 £513 -14.58% 16
Work from Home +20 37 £450 -15.73% 89
South East +43 14 £475 +11.76% 30
Midlands -27 12 £300 -20.00% 10
West Midlands -39 11 £300 -20.00% 10
South West +38 9 £488 -30.36% 10
Scotland +9 7 £450 +7.78%
Yorkshire +20 4 £450 - 15
East of England -1 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 £550 - 2

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 2 (1.33%) Anypoint
1 2 (1.33%) Apache
1 2 (1.33%) JBoss
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.67%) CMS
2 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 56 (37.33%) AWS
2 22 (14.67%) Azure
3 19 (12.67%) GitHub
4 17 (11.33%) Amazon ELB
5 13 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (6.67%) GCP
8 9 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.00%) Serverless
9 8 (5.33%) IaaS
9 8 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (4.67%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.00%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (2.00%) Datadog
13 3 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (41.33%) Firewall
2 47 (31.33%) WAN
3 35 (23.33%) DNS
4 32 (21.33%) VPN
5 29 (19.33%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (17.33%) Network Security
7 25 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
7 25 (16.67%) NetScaler
8 24 (16.00%) BGP
9 23 (15.33%) LAN
10 20 (13.33%) IPsec
11 16 (10.67%) DHCP
12 15 (10.00%) OSPF
13 13 (8.67%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (8.67%) Wireless
14 12 (8.00%) SSL
15 10 (6.67%) MPLS
16 9 (6.00%) Cisco IOS
16 9 (6.00%) Cisco Nexus
16 9 (6.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.67%) Big Data
4 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 16 (10.67%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.67%) Git
3 7 (4.67%) GitLab
4 6 (4.00%) JIRA
5 4 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.67%) Ant
7 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.67%) Maven
7 1 (0.67%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.67%) Spinnaker
General
1 29 (19.33%) Finance
2 20 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.33%) Banking
5 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.33%) Retail
7 3 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.33%) Advertising
8 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.33%) Marketing
8 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Electronics
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (48.00%) Network Engineer
2 27 (18.00%) Architect
3 18 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (11.33%) AWS Architect
5 15 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 13 (8.67%) Senior
7 9 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (5.33%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (4.67%) Lead
10 6 (4.00%) Network Architect
11 5 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (3.33%) Consultant
11 5 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Network Security Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Senior Network Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.33%) 802.1X
2 8 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.33%) Node.js
4 4 (2.67%) Kafka
4 4 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.33%) Middleware
5 2 (1.33%) NETCONF
5 2 (1.33%) RESTful
5 2 (1.33%) XML
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (0.67%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.67%) HTML
6 1 (0.67%) JSON
6 1 (0.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 18 (12.00%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.33%) PKI
4 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.00%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.33%) Clustering
7 2 (1.33%) CMDB
7 2 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.67%) FMCG
8 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) SCADA
8 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.33%) Linux
2 5 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.67%) Unix
3 4 (2.67%) Windows
4 3 (2.00%) VMS
5 2 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.67%) High Availability
2 34 (22.67%) CI/CD
2 34 (22.67%) DevOps
3 30 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (20.00%) Network Design
4 25 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 25 (16.67%) Network Management
5 24 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (15.33%) Migration
7 18 (12.00%) Agile
7 18 (12.00%) Containerisation
8 16 (10.67%) Architectural Design
8 16 (10.67%) Auto-Scaling
9 15 (10.00%) Network Architecture
10 14 (9.33%) Architectural Patterns
10 14 (9.33%) Data Migration
10 14 (9.33%) Impact Assessments
10 14 (9.33%) Use Case
11 11 (7.33%) Network Monitoring
11 11 (7.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 45 (30.00%) Python
2 19 (12.67%) Bash
3 6 (4.00%) Groovy
3 6 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.00%) VB
4 4 (2.67%) Go
5 3 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.33%) Perl
6 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.33%) SQL
7 1 (0.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 64 (42.67%) Security Cleared
2 47 (31.33%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.33%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (8.00%) CCNP
5 10 (6.67%) CCNA
6 9 (6.00%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.67%) Degree
7 7 (4.67%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.33%) CCIE
9 4 (2.67%) CISSP
10 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.67%) CCDP
12 1 (0.67%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.67%) CCIE Security
12 1 (0.67%) CCSM
12 1 (0.67%) MCSE
12 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 5 (3.33%) SLA
2 3 (2.00%) GDPR
2 3 (2.00%) QA
3 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (7.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (23.33%) Ansible
1 35 (23.33%) Terraform
2 25 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.00%) Grafana
3 12 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.67%) FortiGate
5 6 (4.00%) Istio
6 4 (2.67%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.33%) CloudHub
7 2 (1.33%) Nagios
7 2 (1.33%) Podman
7 2 (1.33%) Puppet
8 1 (0.67%) Argo
8 1 (0.67%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.67%) Kibana
8 1 (0.67%) logstash
8 1 (0.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.67%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 64 (42.67%) Cisco
2 42 (28.00%) F5
3 39 (26.00%) Palo Alto
4 21 (14.00%) Meraki
5 14 (9.33%) Juniper
6 11 (7.33%) CheckPoint
6 11 (7.33%) Citrix
7 9 (6.00%) Arista
7 9 (6.00%) Microsoft
8 7 (4.67%) Fortinet
9 6 (4.00%) Aruba
9 6 (4.00%) Google
9 6 (4.00%) Infoblox
9 6 (4.00%) Zscaler
10 5 (3.33%) NetScout
10 5 (3.33%) Splunk
11 4 (2.67%) SolarWinds
12 3 (2.00%) Blue Coat
12 3 (2.00%) Extreme Networks
12 3 (2.00%) Ruckus Wireless