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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 509 584
Rank change year-on-year -102 +75 +71
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 17 19 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.065% 0.016%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.41% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 5
10th Percentile £466 £530 -
25th Percentile £475 £594 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.31% +26.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £538 £744 £588
90th Percentile - £750 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £681 £530
% change year-on-year -27.34% +28.54% -1.35%

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 6,488 4,682 5,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.18% 16.02% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,467 3,198 3,762
10th Percentile £316 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.11% -9.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -0.76% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 51 132
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.89 £22.50 £17.74
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £77.80 £70.00 £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.86%

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 7 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 8 April 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 -114 17 £513 -29.31% 5
UK excluding London -100 9 £495 -27.34% 3
London -70 7 £525 -27.59% 2
Yorkshire -52 5 £488 -33.90% 2
North of England -64 5 £488 -35.00% 2
East of England -28 4 £495 -17.50%
Work from Home -32 3 £488 -35.00% 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 5 (29.41%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) nginx
3 1 (5.88%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 4 (23.53%) IaaS
3 4 (23.53%) PaaS
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (17.65%) Route 53
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) DNS
2 6 (35.29%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.88%) Firewall
5 1 (5.88%) ICMP
5 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
5 1 (5.88%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (5.88%) RTP
5 1 (5.88%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (5.88%) SSH
5 1 (5.88%) VLAN
5 1 (5.88%) VPN
5 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) Gatling
3 3 (17.65%) Artifactory
3 3 (17.65%) Git
3 3 (17.65%) Maven
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Advertising
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Network Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Network Services Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Service Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Playwright
2 2 (11.76%) LDAP
3 1 (5.88%) LAMP
3 1 (5.88%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (5.88%) libvirt
3 1 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Unix
3 4 (23.53%) Windows
4 2 (11.76%) CentOS
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
1 6 (35.29%) Load Balancing
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
3 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Kernel Tuning
4 3 (17.65%) Open Source
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Debt
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) Scala
3 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
4 3 (17.65%) Ruby
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) RHCA
2 1 (5.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
1 5 (29.41%) NFS
1 5 (29.41%) Postfix
1 5 (29.41%) Varnish
2 3 (17.65%) Sendmail
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Ceph
3 1 (5.88%) Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) iptables
3 1 (5.88%) KVM
3 1 (5.88%) Lustre
3 1 (5.88%) Samba
3 1 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Stealthwatch
4 1 (5.88%) Istio
4 1 (5.88%) SELinux
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco
3 3 (17.65%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) Dialogic
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) jetNEXUS
4 1 (5.88%) Metaswitch
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) VMware