Load Balancing Contracts in Scotland

Load Balancing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 - 160
Rank change year-on-year - - -22
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 3 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% - 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £406 - £332
25th Percentile £407 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 - £480
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.04%
75th Percentile £432 - £500
90th Percentile £435 - £511
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Scotland

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Scotland

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Scotland

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Glasgow - 3 £418 -
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Distribution
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Value Proposition
3 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) VMware