Load Balancing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 291 324
Rank change year-on-year +7 +33 -17
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 114 158 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.69% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.77% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 112 119
10th Percentile £319 £288 £413
25th Percentile £363 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £644
90th Percentile £600 £680 £695
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.20
25th Percentile - - £32.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £40.50
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% -44.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +62 59 £375 -19.35% 12
West Midlands +60 59 £375 +15.38% 5
East of England +14 22 £534 -8.33% 5
North of England -26 13 £600 +20.00% 4
North West -31 12 £600 +21.70% 3
South East -17 10 £425 -15.00% 5
South West +8 8 £700 +43.59% 4
Scotland - 2 £418 - 3
Yorkshire +11 1 - - 1
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (7.02%) IIS
2 4 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.75%) nginx
3 2 (1.75%) Traefik
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.79%) Azure
2 8 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.39%) AWS
4 4 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.63%) BigCommerce
6 2 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.75%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.75%) GCP
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (56.14%) VPN
2 62 (54.39%) WAN
3 48 (42.11%) BGP
3 48 (42.11%) IPsec
3 48 (42.11%) Junos
3 48 (42.11%) MPLS
4 36 (31.58%) Firewall
5 15 (13.16%) LAN
6 13 (11.40%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (8.77%) DNS
8 8 (7.02%) SAN
9 6 (5.26%) DHCP
9 6 (5.26%) SD-WAN
9 6 (5.26%) TCP/IP
9 6 (5.26%) Wireshark
10 5 (4.39%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (4.39%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (3.51%) NetScaler
11 4 (3.51%) Network Security
11 4 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.51%) Fiddler
3 3 (2.63%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.63%) Git
3 3 (2.63%) JIRA
3 3 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.75%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) JUnit
5 1 (0.88%) Mockito
5 1 (0.88%) TestNG
General
1 12 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.26%) Finance
4 4 (3.51%) German Language
4 4 (3.51%) Legal
5 3 (2.63%) Marketing
5 3 (2.63%) Retail
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 30 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 26 (22.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 26 (22.81%) 3rd Line Support
3 25 (21.93%) WAN Engineer
4 22 (19.30%) Network Support
5 13 (11.40%) Support Engineer
6 10 (8.77%) Administrator
6 10 (8.77%) Senior
7 9 (7.89%) Full Stack Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) Architect
8 8 (7.02%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Server Administrator
10 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) VMWare Administrator
11 4 (3.51%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.53%) CSS
1 12 (10.53%) HTML
1 12 (10.53%) React
2 8 (7.02%) .NET
3 4 (3.51%) .NET Framework
3 4 (3.51%) SAML
3 4 (3.51%) Spring
4 3 (2.63%) JDBC
4 3 (2.63%) JPA
4 3 (2.63%) JWT
4 3 (2.63%) VML
4 3 (2.63%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.75%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.75%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.75%) REST
6 1 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (49.12%) PKI
2 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.63%) Clustering
5 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.77%) Linux
1 10 (8.77%) Windows
2 6 (5.26%) CentOS
2 6 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.39%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.68%) DevOps
2 26 (22.81%) Network Design
3 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.54%) Agile
5 15 (13.16%) CI/CD
6 14 (12.28%) Software Engineering
7 12 (10.53%) Identity Management
8 10 (8.77%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (6.14%) Migration
11 6 (5.26%) Task Automation
12 5 (4.39%) Change Control
12 5 (4.39%) Microservices
12 5 (4.39%) Network Virtualisation
12 5 (4.39%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 4 (3.51%) Cybersecurity
13 4 (3.51%) Data Architecture
13 4 (3.51%) Data Migration
13 4 (3.51%) Patch Management
13 4 (3.51%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.16%) Java
2 10 (8.77%) TypeScript
3 9 (7.89%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.02%) SQL
5 7 (6.14%) Bash
6 4 (3.51%) Python
7 2 (1.75%) Go
7 2 (1.75%) Ruby
8 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (49.12%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.65%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.14%) Degree
4 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.63%) CCNA
6 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) CCIE
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (11.40%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.39%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.39%) VMware Server
3 5 (4.39%) vSphere
4 4 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.02%) SCOM
2 6 (5.26%) FortiGate
3 5 (4.39%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (4.39%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.51%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.51%) SCCM
4 4 (3.51%) Terraform
5 3 (2.63%) Ansible
6 2 (1.75%) Consul
6 2 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.75%) Grafana
6 2 (1.75%) Graphite
6 2 (1.75%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.75%) Istio
6 2 (1.75%) linkerd
6 2 (1.75%) Packer
6 2 (1.75%) Podman
6 2 (1.75%) Puppet
6 2 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (44.74%) Juniper
2 22 (19.30%) Cisco
3 18 (15.79%) F5
4 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
5 10 (8.77%) VMware
6 9 (7.89%) Aruba
7 8 (7.02%) Meraki
8 7 (6.14%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.39%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.51%) CheckPoint
10 4 (3.51%) Splunk
11 3 (2.63%) Adobe
11 3 (2.63%) Dell
11 3 (2.63%) Intel
11 3 (2.63%) Oracle
11 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
11 3 (2.63%) SAP
11 3 (2.63%) Sitecore
12 2 (1.75%) Citrix
12 2 (1.75%) PagerDuty