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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 287 293
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +65
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 46 55 170
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.37% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.43% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 46 126
10th Percentile £400 £325 £413
25th Percentile £406 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +6.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £688 £650
90th Percentile £615 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £455 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% -9.09% -

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 9,224 12,802 21,352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.77% 87.21% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,250 8,610 15,077
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 551 508
10th Percentile £13.40 £15.17 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.93 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 3 July 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 1 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 7 (15.22%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) GitHub
2 7 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (13.04%) Amazon S3
3 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (13.04%) Serverless
3 6 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (10.87%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.52%) Akamai
6 3 (6.52%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (6.52%) IaaS
6 3 (6.52%) PaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.35%) Datadog
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.17%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (54.35%) Firewall
2 12 (26.09%) DNS
3 10 (21.74%) VPN
4 8 (17.39%) Network Security
5 7 (15.22%) DHCP
5 7 (15.22%) WAN
6 6 (13.04%) BGP
6 6 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (13.04%) Wireless
7 5 (10.87%) IPsec
7 5 (10.87%) LAN
7 5 (10.87%) OSPF
8 4 (8.70%) BIG-IP
8 4 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (8.70%) NetScaler
8 4 (8.70%) SD-WAN
8 4 (8.70%) VXLAN
9 3 (6.52%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (6.52%) Multicast
9 3 (6.52%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) GitLab
2 4 (8.70%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Retail
5 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Advertising
6 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) iGaming
7 1 (2.17%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Network Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Lead
4 6 (13.04%) Service Continuity Leader
5 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Network Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Network Operations Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior
8 2 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Firewall Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.35%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) Node.js
3 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) FMCG
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) IoT
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) PKI
3 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) SCADA
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) CentOS
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
2 11 (23.91%) DevOps
2 11 (23.91%) High Availability
3 10 (21.74%) ITIL
3 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.39%) Cloud Security
4 8 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 7 (15.22%) Agile
5 7 (15.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (13.04%) BCP
6 6 (13.04%) Business Continuity
6 6 (13.04%) Business Continuity Planning
6 6 (13.04%) Business Impact Analysis
6 6 (13.04%) Impact Analysis
6 6 (13.04%) Incident Response
6 6 (13.04%) Migration
6 6 (13.04%) Risk Management
6 6 (13.04%) Runbook
6 6 (13.04%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) Bash
3 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.17%) Go
4 1 (2.17%) Java
4 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (17.39%) CCNP
4 5 (10.87%) Degree
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.52%) CISSP
6 2 (4.35%) CCIE
7 1 (2.17%) CCDP
7 1 (2.17%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (2.17%) CCNA
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) Ansible
1 13 (28.26%) Terraform
2 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.22%) Grafana
3 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.35%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
5 1 (2.17%) Consul
5 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.17%) Salt
5 1 (2.17%) SCCM
5 1 (2.17%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) F5
2 15 (32.61%) Cisco
3 9 (19.57%) CheckPoint
4 8 (17.39%) Palo Alto
5 5 (10.87%) Aruba
5 5 (10.87%) Juniper
5 5 (10.87%) Zscaler
6 4 (8.70%) NetScout
7 3 (6.52%) Arista
7 3 (6.52%) Blue Coat
7 3 (6.52%) Citrix
7 3 (6.52%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.52%) Infoblox
7 3 (6.52%) Ruckus Wireless
8 2 (4.35%) Google
8 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.35%) Splunk
9 1 (2.17%) IBM