Load Balancing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Load Balancing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 288 280
Rank change year-on-year +24 -8 +99
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 40 57 203
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.37% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.42% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 42 148
10th Percentile £406 £303 £413
25th Percentile £409 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £507 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% -7.82% +0.92%
75th Percentile £550 £688 £650
90th Percentile £633 £736 £708
UK median daily rate £475 £478 £550
% change year-on-year -0.52% -13.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -34.46% +72.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Load Balancing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Load Balancing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Load Balancing.

Load Balancing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Load Balancing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Load Balancing.

Load Balancing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.00%) Anypoint
1 2 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) AWS
2 5 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (10.00%) GCP
3 4 (10.00%) IaaS
3 4 (10.00%) PaaS
3 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.50%) Datadog
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 2 (5.00%) Akamai
5 2 (5.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (55.00%) Firewall
2 11 (27.50%) DNS
3 9 (22.50%) Network Security
4 7 (17.50%) WAN
4 7 (17.50%) Wireless
5 6 (15.00%) DHCP
5 6 (15.00%) SSL
5 6 (15.00%) VPN
6 5 (12.50%) BGP
6 5 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (12.50%) IPsec
6 5 (12.50%) LAN
7 4 (10.00%) OSPF
7 4 (10.00%) VXLAN
7 4 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (10.00%) Wireshark
8 3 (7.50%) BIG-IP
8 3 (7.50%) Internet
8 3 (7.50%) MPLS
8 3 (7.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) GitLab
2 4 (10.00%) Git
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.50%) Spinnaker
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Finance
3 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Retail
6 2 (5.00%) Advertising
6 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Service Continuity Leader
5 3 (7.50%) Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Implementation Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.00%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) Node.js
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.50%) FMCG
4 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) SCADA
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (22.50%) High Availability
2 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
4 7 (17.50%) DevOps
4 7 (17.50%) Network Design
4 7 (17.50%) Task Automation
5 6 (15.00%) ITIL
6 5 (12.50%) Microservices
6 5 (12.50%) Migration
7 4 (10.00%) BCP
7 4 (10.00%) Business Continuity Planning
7 4 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (10.00%) Network Management
7 4 (10.00%) Network Security Management
7 4 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 4 (10.00%) Runbook
7 4 (10.00%) Security Management
7 4 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) Bash
3 2 (5.00%) PHP
3 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (17.50%) CCNP
4 4 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.50%) CISSP
6 2 (5.00%) CCIE
7 1 (2.50%) CCDP
7 1 (2.50%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (2.50%) CCNA
7 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Ansible
2 11 (27.50%) Terraform
3 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
4 6 (15.00%) Grafana
4 6 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.00%) CloudHub
6 1 (2.50%) Argo
6 1 (2.50%) Kibana
6 1 (2.50%) logstash
6 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.50%) Puppet
6 1 (2.50%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) F5
2 13 (32.50%) Cisco
3 8 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 7 (17.50%) Palo Alto
5 6 (15.00%) Aruba
6 5 (12.50%) NetScout
6 5 (12.50%) Zscaler
7 4 (10.00%) Arista
7 4 (10.00%) Infoblox
8 3 (7.50%) Blue Coat
8 3 (7.50%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (7.50%) Fortinet
8 3 (7.50%) Juniper
8 3 (7.50%) Ruckus Wireless
9 2 (5.00%) BMC
9 2 (5.00%) MuleSoft
9 2 (5.00%) Splunk
10 1 (2.50%) Apple
10 1 (2.50%) Citrix
10 1 (2.50%) Google