Load Balancing Contracts in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 61 110
Rank change year-on-year -31 +49 +62
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 22 47 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.31% 2.53% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 3.09% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 6
10th Percentile £265 £300 £288
25th Percentile £300 £363 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £481
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -22.08% -12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £388 £711
90th Percentile £625 £435 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,483 1,522 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.43% 81.78% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 936 1,030 1,295
10th Percentile £230 £280 £263
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £666 £738 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 61 38
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £20.12
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -32.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £32.44 £37.50 £30.78
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £46.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
Birmingham +8 14 £400 -15.79% 7
Solihull -10 4 £363 -3.33% 3
Coventry - 3 £400 -
Warwickshire - 1 £775 -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) BGP
1 11 (50.00%) IPsec
2 9 (40.91%) MPLS
2 9 (40.91%) VPN
2 9 (40.91%) WAN
3 8 (36.36%) Firewall
4 7 (31.82%) Network Security
5 6 (27.27%) DNS
6 4 (18.18%) Junos
7 3 (13.64%) BIG-IP
7 3 (13.64%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (13.64%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (13.64%) DMZ
7 3 (13.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (13.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (13.64%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (9.09%) OSPF
8 2 (9.09%) SSL
8 2 (9.09%) VLAN
8 2 (9.09%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Network Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) WAN Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Network Support
3 4 (18.18%) Network Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
5 2 (9.09%) Service Continuity Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) PKI
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) Agile
3 4 (18.18%) Network Design
4 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
4 3 (13.64%) Business Strategy
4 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
4 3 (13.64%) High Availability
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (9.09%) Business Impact Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Product Backlog
5 2 (9.09%) Product Requirements
5 2 (9.09%) Product Strategy
5 2 (9.09%) Product Vision
5 2 (9.09%) Runbook
5 2 (9.09%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 2 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) Bash
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) CCIE
4 1 (4.55%) CCIE Security
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) CCSE
4 1 (4.55%) CCSM
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Nagios
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Juniper
2 8 (36.36%) Cisco
2 8 (36.36%) F5
3 5 (22.73%) Palo Alto
3 5 (22.73%) SolarWinds
4 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
4 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
5 3 (13.64%) VMware
6 2 (9.09%) Arista
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
7 1 (4.55%) Commvault
7 1 (4.55%) NetScout
7 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.55%) Veeam
7 1 (4.55%) Zscaler