HAProxy Contract Job Trends

HAProxy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HAProxy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 520 570
Rank change year-on-year -58 +50 +94
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 9 17 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.054% 0.046%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.36% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 17
10th Percentile £473 £540 £512
25th Percentile £483 £594 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +38.10% -17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £747 £545
90th Percentile £549 £750 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £725 £528
% change year-on-year -29.66% +37.44% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

HAProxy falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,952 4,746 5,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.75% 14.97% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,121 3,058 3,948
10th Percentile £313 £312 £269
25th Percentile £413 £417 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £497 £500
% change year-on-year +0.55% -0.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 163
10th Percentile £18.33 £15.33 £15.05
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.25 £21.63
Median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +19.95%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +125.39% -47.64% +13.81%

HAProxy
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HAProxy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

HAProxy job vacancy trend in the UK

HAProxy
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HAProxy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HAProxy

HAProxy
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HAProxy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HAProxy

HAProxy
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HAProxy within the UK over the 6 months to 22 January 2026. 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 -56 7 £525 -27.59% 3
UK excluding London -74 6 £510 -29.66% 2
East of England -14 4 £495 -17.50% 2
London -24 2 £525 -27.59% 1
Scotland - 2 £560 -
Work from Home -8 1 - - 1

HAProxy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Route 53
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DHCP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) InfiniBand
3 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
3 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) RTP
3 1 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (11.11%) SSH
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) InfluxDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Advertising
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Network Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Network Services Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 1 (11.11%) LAMP
2 1 (11.11%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (11.11%) libvirt
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (22.22%) CentOS
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
2 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Team Management
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Kanban
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) RHCA
1 1 (11.11%) RHCE
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) KVM
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Ceph
3 1 (11.11%) Firmware
3 1 (11.11%) iptables
3 1 (11.11%) Lustre
3 1 (11.11%) NFS
3 1 (11.11%) Postfix
3 1 (11.11%) Samba
3 1 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Stealthwatch
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Fluentd
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (11.11%) Nagios
4 1 (11.11%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Commvault
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) Dialogic
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) jetNEXUS
4 1 (11.11%) Metaswitch
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) VMware