Load Balancing Contracts in the South West

Load Balancing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 142 147 149
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -21
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 10 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.32% 0.35% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.39% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile - £323 £390
25th Percentile £600 £419 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £494 £524
Median % change year-on-year +41.77% -5.77% +31.00%
75th Percentile £725 £556 £540
90th Percentile £823 £575 £551
England median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,622 3,107 3,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.72% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,675 2,271 2,297
10th Percentile £222 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 318 204
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.61 £20.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +24.03% +13.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the South West

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Gloucestershire +7 3 £700 +40.00%
Somerset +5 3 - -
Devon -2 2 £600 -
Bristol +18 1 - - 1
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (10.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) BigCommerce
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (30.00%) VoIP
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) 4G
4 1 (10.00%) 5G
4 1 (10.00%) NGFW
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Marketing
2 3 (30.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IP Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) VML
2 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) B2B
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Acquisition
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (30.00%) Global Marketing
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Network Design
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (10.00%) Coaching
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Adobe
2 3 (30.00%) Aruba
2 3 (30.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (30.00%) Dell
2 3 (30.00%) F5
2 3 (30.00%) Intel
2 3 (30.00%) Meraki
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Sitecore
3 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) VMware