Network Load Balancing Contracts

Network Load Balancing (NLB)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Network Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Load Balancing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 680 842
Rank change year-on-year +108 +162 -183
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 7 20 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.033% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.037% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile £147 £422 £376
25th Percentile £200 £461 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +9.76% +28.13%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £567
90th Percentile - £658 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £397
% change year-on-year - +6.99% +5.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Load Balancing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Network Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Load Balancing in the UK

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Load Balancing in the UK

Network Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Load Balancing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Load Balancing in the UK

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Load Balancing in the UK

Network Load Balancing
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
London +109 6 £388 -28.74% 6
England +104 6 £388 -26.19% 10
Work from Home +115 5 £465 -27.51% 6

Network 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 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Server Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Clustering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
2 2 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Cryptography
2 2 (28.57%) Fintech
2 2 (28.57%) GitOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (14.29%) Due Diligence
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) Squid
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
1 3 (42.86%) SCOM
2 2 (28.57%) HAProxy
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) SCOrch
3 1 (14.29%) SCVMM
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Huawei
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
1 2 (28.57%) Trend Micro
2 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (14.29%) Varonis
2 1 (14.29%) VMware