Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in West London

Load Balancing
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 40 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +9
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.09% 0.36% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.41% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - £605
London median daily rate £525 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

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 in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 245 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 86.18% 89.09% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 177 384
10th Percentile £204 £270 £250
25th Percentile £315 £385 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.11% -13.64% +6.80%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £645
90th Percentile £558 £638 £768
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 20
10th Percentile £25.00 £19.18 £39.19
25th Percentile - £22.28 £54.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.59 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -55.99% +265.79%
75th Percentile £33.93 £65.00 £88.13
90th Percentile £43.38 £72.20 £90.00
London median hourly rate £30.50 £37.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% -7.13% +4.25%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in West London

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Hillingdon - 2 - -
Load Balancing
London

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) 802.11
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper