Network Load Balancing Contracts

Network Load Balancing (NLB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Network Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 676 822
Rank change year-on-year +100 +146 -109
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 8 21 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.038% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.042% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 8
10th Percentile £156 £413 £463
25th Percentile £264 £461 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £565 £543
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.15% +31.52%
75th Percentile £584 £648 £613
90th Percentile £588 £658 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.69
90th Percentile - - £59.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network 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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Network Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Load Balancing in the UK

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Load Balancing in the UK

Network Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Load Balancing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Load Balancing in the UK

Network Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Load Balancing in the UK

Network Load Balancing
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Load Balancing within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +81 7 £550 +10.28% 2
England +76 7 £550 +16.40% 3
Work from Home +108 5 £465 -25.60% 2

Network Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) nginx
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Server Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (25.00%) Fintech
2 2 (25.00%) GitOps
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (12.50%) Due Diligence
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) Squid
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
1 3 (37.50%) SCOM
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) SCOrch
3 1 (12.50%) SCVMM
3 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) Huawei
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) Trend Micro
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) F5
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) Varonis
3 1 (12.50%) VMware