Load Balancing Contracts in Scotland

Load Balancing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 - 169
Rank change year-on-year - - -19
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 4 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% - 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £403 - £256
25th Percentile £406 - £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £480
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.05%
75th Percentile £438 - £495
90th Percentile - - £500
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,865 2,470 3,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.95% 92.13% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,723 2,262
10th Percentile £220 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

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 11 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
Edinburgh - 2 £413 - 1
Glasgow - 1 £425 -
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) IPsec
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (75.00%) Unified Communications
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Distribution
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk