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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 551 561
Rank change year-on-year -112 +10 +35
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 16 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.018% 0.018%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 5
10th Percentile £450 £492 £428
25th Percentile £469 £518 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £559 £618 £575
90th Percentile £600 £652 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £530 £450
% change year-on-year -8.02% +17.78% -14.29%

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 6,059 4,696 4,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.04% 14.18% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,999 3,032 3,039
10th Percentile £313 £275 £299
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £490
% change year-on-year +4.44% -2.20% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 96 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.88
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £23.79 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +166.86% -36.57% -31.82%
75th Percentile £73.81 £62.50 £63.50
90th Percentile £87.67 £67.13 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £37.08
% change year-on-year +195.16% -42.32% -22.47%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HAProxy over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HAProxy in the UK

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 11 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 2 October 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 -107 14 £494 -24.04% 14
UK excluding London -92 13 £488 -8.02% 10
North of England - 6 £488 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £488 -
Work from Home -70 3 £463 - 4
London -82 3 £600 - 4
South East - 3 £450 - 2
Scotland -29 2 £475 -10.38% 3
East of England - 1 £513 - 2
South West - 1 £638 - 1
North West - 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 8 (50.00%) nginx
2 7 (43.75%) Apache
3 3 (18.75%) IIS
3 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
4 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (12.50%) Traefik
5 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (18.75%) Cloudflare
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (12.50%) IaaS
5 2 (12.50%) PaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
6 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) BIG-IP
3 2 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (12.50%) SSL
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
4 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
4 1 (6.25%) NAS
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (31.25%) MySQL
4 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data
5 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
5 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
5 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.25%) Redis
5 1 (6.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Jenkins
2 5 (31.25%) Artifactory
2 5 (31.25%) Gatling
3 4 (25.00%) Git
4 3 (18.75%) Maven
5 2 (12.50%) GitLab
6 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (6.25%) Gerrit
6 1 (6.25%) JIRA
6 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (6.25%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 2 (12.50%) Banking
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Military
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Scala Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Scala Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Playwright
3 4 (25.00%) LAMP
3 4 (25.00%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (25.00%) YAML
4 3 (18.75%) Kafka
5 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
5 2 (12.50%) OAuth
5 2 (12.50%) OpenID
6 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (6.25%) cloud-init
6 1 (6.25%) gRPC
6 1 (6.25%) Jolokia
6 1 (6.25%) JWT
6 1 (6.25%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (6.25%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
6 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (6.25%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
1 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) CentOS
2 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) Unix
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (6.25%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
4 5 (31.25%) Technical Debt
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Observability
5 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) Bash
3 6 (37.50%) Java
4 5 (31.25%) Scala
5 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (12.50%) Go
6 2 (12.50%) Perl
6 2 (12.50%) Ruby
6 2 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (6.25%) C#
7 1 (6.25%) C++
7 1 (6.25%) Groovy
7 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (6.25%) MATLAB
7 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Degree
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (31.25%) Postfix
3 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (18.75%) Dovecot
4 2 (12.50%) Varnish
5 1 (6.25%) NFS
5 1 (6.25%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (50.00%) Ansible
3 6 (37.50%) Grafana
3 6 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (18.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
5 2 (12.50%) linkerd
5 2 (12.50%) Puppet
6 1 (6.25%) Argo
6 1 (6.25%) Consul
6 1 (6.25%) Istio
6 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (6.25%) Packer
6 1 (6.25%) Rancher
6 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) F5
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
3 3 (18.75%) Juniper
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
4 2 (12.50%) Okta
5 1 (6.25%) Apple
5 1 (6.25%) Coverity
5 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 1 (6.25%) ESET
5 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock
5 1 (6.25%) Perforce
5 1 (6.25%) Splunk