Load Balancing Contracts in England

Load Balancing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Balancing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 323 382
Rank change year-on-year -1 +59 +18
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 229 370 481
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.75% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.84% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 268 298
10th Percentile £325 £396 £413
25th Percentile £363 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £733 £700
UK median daily rate £478 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £32.20 £28.20
25th Percentile - £46.38 £32.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% -
75th Percentile - - £49.75
90th Percentile - - £54.40
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% -44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,821 44,233 63,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.48% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,850 31,044 45,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,565 1,721
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 -7 93 £500 -16.67% 26
Midlands +70 57 £375 -16.67% 11
West Midlands +63 57 £375 - 8
East of England +22 29 £500 -13.04% 4
South West +20 17 £600 +21.52% 5
South East +2 14 £450 -10.00% 10
North of England -32 13 £600 +13.21% 6
North West -35 12 £600 +9.09% 4
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 2
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (5.68%) IIS
2 9 (3.93%) Apache
3 7 (3.06%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.62%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.18%) nginx
6 3 (1.31%) Confluence
6 3 (1.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.87%) Traefik
8 1 (0.44%) JBoss
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Chatbot
1 5 (2.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.76%) Azure
2 39 (17.03%) AWS
3 18 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.99%) GCP
5 13 (5.68%) PaaS
6 7 (3.06%) Cloudflare
6 7 (3.06%) GitHub
6 7 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.18%) Akamai
8 5 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.75%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.75%) SaaS
9 4 (1.75%) Twilio
10 3 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.31%) BigCommerce
10 3 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 93 (40.61%) Firewall
2 79 (34.50%) VPN
3 73 (31.88%) WAN
4 67 (29.26%) BGP
5 61 (26.64%) MPLS
6 59 (25.76%) DNS
7 49 (21.40%) IPsec
8 46 (20.09%) Junos
9 36 (15.72%) Network Security
10 23 (10.04%) DHCP
10 23 (10.04%) LAN
11 17 (7.42%) SD-WAN
11 17 (7.42%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (6.11%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (5.68%) 5G
13 13 (5.68%) Wireshark
14 12 (5.24%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (5.24%) TCP/IP
14 12 (5.24%) VoIP
15 11 (4.80%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.31%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.44%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.44%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.44%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.44%) MySQL
5 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.44%) Power BI
5 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (8.30%) Git
2 14 (6.11%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.93%) Artifactory
3 9 (3.93%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (3.49%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.06%) JIRA
6 5 (2.18%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.75%) Fiddler
7 4 (1.75%) GitLab
8 1 (0.44%) Ant
8 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.44%) JUnit
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Mockito
8 1 (0.44%) TestNG
General
1 41 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.79%) Finance
3 12 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.24%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.93%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.49%) Banking
6 7 (3.06%) Retail
7 6 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.18%) German Language
9 4 (1.75%) Legal
10 3 (1.31%) Marketing
11 2 (0.87%) Automotive
11 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (32.31%) Network Engineer
2 25 (10.92%) 3rd Line Support
2 25 (10.92%) Architect
2 25 (10.92%) Senior
3 24 (10.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 24 (10.48%) WAN Engineer
4 21 (9.17%) Network Support
5 17 (7.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (6.55%) Web Engineer
7 14 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.68%) Administrator
8 13 (5.68%) Support Engineer
9 9 (3.93%) Full Stack Engineer
9 9 (3.93%) Network Architect
10 8 (3.49%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) Design Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) Java Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) Network Design Engineer
11 7 (3.06%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 7 (3.06%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.99%) .NET
2 14 (6.11%) CSS
2 14 (6.11%) HTML
2 14 (6.11%) React
3 8 (3.49%) LDAP
4 6 (2.62%) Node.js
4 6 (2.62%) SAML
5 5 (2.18%) JWT
5 5 (2.18%) Middleware
6 4 (1.75%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.75%) JSON
6 4 (1.75%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.75%) Spring
6 4 (1.75%) Web Services
6 4 (1.75%) XML
6 4 (1.75%) YANG
7 3 (1.31%) JDBC
7 3 (1.31%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.31%) VML
7 3 (1.31%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 58 (25.33%) PKI
2 29 (12.66%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.80%) Clustering
4 7 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.62%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.18%) IVR
7 4 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.75%) Replication
7 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.31%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.31%) Media Streaming
8 3 (1.31%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.97%) Linux
2 28 (12.23%) Windows
3 16 (6.99%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.49%) Unix
5 7 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.62%) CentOS
7 5 (2.18%) Android
7 5 (2.18%) Apple iOS
7 5 (2.18%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.07%) DevOps
2 43 (18.78%) Agile
3 40 (17.47%) Network Design
4 36 (15.72%) CI/CD
5 35 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (9.61%) Migration
8 20 (8.73%) Software Engineering
9 16 (6.99%) ITIL
10 15 (6.55%) Identity Management
11 13 (5.68%) Test Automation
12 12 (5.24%) Full Stack Development
12 12 (5.24%) Mentoring
12 12 (5.24%) Roadmaps
13 11 (4.80%) Computer Science
13 11 (4.80%) Kanban
13 11 (4.80%) Network Virtualisation
14 10 (4.37%) Project Delivery
14 10 (4.37%) Scrum
15 9 (3.93%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (13.54%) PowerShell
2 30 (13.10%) Python
3 19 (8.30%) Java
4 18 (7.86%) SQL
5 15 (6.55%) Bash
6 12 (5.24%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.93%) Go
8 7 (3.06%) C#
9 5 (2.18%) Bicep
10 4 (1.75%) Ruby
10 4 (1.75%) VBScript
11 3 (1.31%) C
11 3 (1.31%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.31%) PHP
12 2 (0.87%) Scala
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (34.50%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.48%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (7.86%) CCNP
5 17 (7.42%) Degree
6 12 (5.24%) CCNA
7 10 (4.37%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.62%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.18%) CCDP
9 5 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.75%) CCIE
11 3 (1.31%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.44%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 1 (0.44%) MCSA
12 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.75%) GDPR
1 4 (1.75%) HIPAA
1 4 (1.75%) PCI DSS
1 4 (1.75%) SOC 2
2 2 (0.87%) NCSC
3 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (9.61%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.68%) Docker
3 12 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.93%) VMware NSX
5 8 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (3.06%) vSphere
7 5 (2.18%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.87%) NFS
8 2 (0.87%) PowerDNS
8 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (10.04%) Terraform
2 17 (7.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.68%) Puppet
4 12 (5.24%) Ansible
4 12 (5.24%) SCOM
5 11 (4.80%) FortiGate
6 9 (3.93%) SCCM
7 7 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.18%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.75%) Kibana
9 4 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.31%) Istio
10 3 (1.31%) Podman
10 3 (1.31%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.87%) Consul
11 2 (0.87%) Grafana
11 2 (0.87%) Graphite
11 2 (0.87%) linkerd
11 2 (0.87%) Packer
11 2 (0.87%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (30.13%) Cisco
2 58 (25.33%) Juniper
3 56 (24.45%) F5
4 31 (13.54%) Microsoft
5 19 (8.30%) Fortinet
5 19 (8.30%) VMware
6 18 (7.86%) Palo Alto
7 16 (6.99%) Aruba
8 13 (5.68%) Meraki
9 9 (3.93%) SolarWinds
10 8 (3.49%) Splunk
11 7 (3.06%) Arista
11 7 (3.06%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.06%) Oracle
12 6 (2.62%) Citrix
12 6 (2.62%) Genesys
12 6 (2.62%) Google
12 6 (2.62%) Infoblox
12 6 (2.62%) Nokia
13 5 (2.18%) Zscaler