Load Balancing Contracts

Load Balancing
UK

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 348 396
Rank change year-on-year -39 +48 +37
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 220 389 572
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.70% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.78% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 275 372
10th Percentile £350 £375 £413
25th Percentile £380 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £32.20 -
25th Percentile - £46.38 £25.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +169.23% -64.63%
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -62.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
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 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -22 198 £475 -13.64% 54
UK excluding London +1 107 £463 -7.50% 28
London -7 88 £514 -12.22% 25
Midlands +56 56 £375 -19.35% 12
West Midlands +55 56 £375 +15.38% 5
Work from Home -14 48 £534 +6.80% 26
East of England +3 20 £534 -9.64% 6
North of England -28 12 £600 +20.00% 2
North West -33 11 £600 +21.70% 1
South East -6 8 £463 -7.50% 5
South West +9 7 £700 +43.59% 3
Scotland - 4 £425 - 2
Yorkshire +2 1 - - 1

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 11 (5.00%) IIS
2 8 (3.64%) Apache
2 8 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.18%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.27%) Confluence
5 4 (1.82%) nginx
6 3 (1.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.45%) JBoss
8 1 (0.45%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.45%) Traefik
8 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.73%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (27.73%) Azure
2 42 (19.09%) AWS
3 18 (8.18%) GCP
4 16 (7.27%) PaaS
5 15 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.64%) Twilio
8 7 (3.18%) Cloudflare
8 7 (3.18%) GitHub
9 6 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.27%) SaaS
11 4 (1.82%) BigCommerce
11 4 (1.82%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.82%) Serverless
12 3 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 77 (35.00%) VPN
2 76 (34.55%) Firewall
3 68 (30.91%) WAN
4 67 (30.45%) BGP
5 58 (26.36%) MPLS
6 49 (22.27%) DNS
6 49 (22.27%) IPsec
7 45 (20.45%) Junos
8 24 (10.91%) LAN
9 21 (9.55%) Network Security
10 20 (9.09%) DHCP
10 20 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (8.18%) TCP/IP
12 17 (7.73%) SD-WAN
13 16 (7.27%) Cisco Nexus
13 16 (7.27%) VoIP
14 14 (6.36%) HTTP
15 13 (5.91%) OSPF
15 13 (5.91%) SNMP
16 12 (5.45%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.36%) Power BI
4 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.45%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.45%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.45%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.45%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.45%) MySQL
5 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.18%) Git
2 17 (7.73%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.45%) Artifactory
4 11 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.18%) GitLab
6 7 (3.18%) JIRA
6 7 (3.18%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.27%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.45%) Ant
8 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.45%) JUnit
8 1 (0.45%) Maven
8 1 (0.45%) Mockito
8 1 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 33 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.73%) Finance
3 19 (8.64%) Telecoms
4 13 (5.91%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.45%) Retail
6 7 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.18%) Banking
6 7 (3.18%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.27%) German Language
7 5 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.82%) Automotive
8 4 (1.82%) Legal
8 4 (1.82%) Marketing
9 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 36 (16.36%) Architect
3 26 (11.82%) Senior
4 25 (11.36%) 3rd Line Support
5 23 (10.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 22 (10.00%) Network Support
6 22 (10.00%) WAN Engineer
7 16 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Administrator
9 12 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (5.45%) Support Engineer
9 12 (5.45%) Web Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Network Architect
11 9 (4.09%) Full Stack Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Design Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Developer
12 8 (3.64%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Lead
12 8 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.27%) CSS
1 16 (7.27%) HTML
1 16 (7.27%) React
2 14 (6.36%) .NET
3 10 (4.55%) Middleware
4 8 (3.64%) Web Services
5 6 (2.73%) 802.1X
5 6 (2.73%) LDAP
5 6 (2.73%) Node.js
5 6 (2.73%) OAuth
6 5 (2.27%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.27%) JWT
6 5 (2.27%) SAML
7 4 (1.82%) JSON
7 4 (1.82%) NETCONF
7 4 (1.82%) Spring
7 4 (1.82%) VML
7 4 (1.82%) XML
7 4 (1.82%) YANG
8 3 (1.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.64%) PKI
2 25 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.55%) Clustering
3 10 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.64%) IVR
5 4 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.82%) Replication
6 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.36%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.36%) Media Streaming
7 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.45%) FMCG
8 1 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 38 (17.27%) Linux
2 28 (12.73%) Windows
3 14 (6.36%) Unix
4 12 (5.45%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.18%) Android
5 7 (3.18%) Apple iOS
5 7 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.27%) CentOS
7 4 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) VMS
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.91%) DevOps
2 49 (22.27%) Agile
3 41 (18.64%) CI/CD
4 38 (17.27%) Network Design
5 32 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (10.45%) Migration
7 20 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 19 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (8.64%) Roadmaps
9 17 (7.73%) Identity Management
10 14 (6.36%) Computer Science
10 14 (6.36%) Full Stack Development
10 14 (6.36%) High Availability
10 14 (6.36%) Test Automation
11 12 (5.45%) Capacity Planning
11 12 (5.45%) Kanban
11 12 (5.45%) Scrum
12 11 (5.00%) Customer Experience
12 11 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (4.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.45%) Python
2 29 (13.18%) PowerShell
3 21 (9.55%) Java
4 17 (7.73%) SQL
5 14 (6.36%) Bash
5 14 (6.36%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.64%) Go
7 7 (3.18%) C#
8 4 (1.82%) Bicep
9 3 (1.36%) C
9 3 (1.36%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.36%) PHP
9 3 (1.36%) Ruby
10 2 (0.91%) Scala
10 2 (0.91%) VBScript
11 1 (0.45%) Groovy
11 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (28.64%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.55%) Degree
4 15 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.55%) CCNP
6 10 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 10 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.64%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.27%) CCDP
10 4 (1.82%) CCIE
11 2 (0.91%) CCNA
12 1 (0.45%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.45%) MCSA
12 1 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.64%) GDPR
1 8 (3.64%) HIPAA
1 8 (3.64%) PCI DSS
1 8 (3.64%) SOC 2
2 2 (0.91%) QA
3 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.45%) NCSC
3 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (7.73%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.45%) Docker
4 8 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (3.18%) VMware NSX
5 7 (3.18%) vSphere
6 5 (2.27%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.91%) PowerDNS
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (10.45%) Terraform
2 18 (8.18%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.91%) Ansible
4 12 (5.45%) Puppet
5 11 (5.00%) FortiGate
6 10 (4.55%) SCOM
7 8 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.73%) SCCM
9 5 (2.27%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.82%) Grafana
10 4 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.82%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.36%) Kibana
12 2 (0.91%) Istio
12 2 (0.91%) Podman
13 1 (0.45%) Argo
13 1 (0.45%) Consul
13 1 (0.45%) Graphite
13 1 (0.45%) linkerd
13 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 58 (26.36%) Cisco
2 52 (23.64%) F5
3 49 (22.27%) Juniper
4 37 (16.82%) Microsoft
5 26 (11.82%) Palo Alto
6 16 (7.27%) Aruba
6 16 (7.27%) VMware
7 14 (6.36%) Meraki
8 10 (4.55%) Fortinet
8 10 (4.55%) Nokia
9 9 (4.09%) Oracle
9 9 (4.09%) Splunk
10 8 (3.64%) Avaya
10 8 (3.64%) Genesys
10 8 (3.64%) Google
11 7 (3.18%) Arista
11 7 (3.18%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.73%) Infoblox
13 5 (2.27%) Citrix
13 5 (2.27%) SolarWinds