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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 515 575
Rank change year-on-year -68 +60 +84
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 7 15 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.048% 0.047%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.32% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 18
10th Percentile - £594 £512
25th Percentile £473 £683 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £528
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +37.44% -4.26%
75th Percentile £538 £750 £549
90th Percentile - - £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £725 £528
% change year-on-year -31.72% +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 5,987 4,744 5,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.54% 15.10% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 3,067 4,033
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 60 161
10th Percentile £17.64 £15.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.66 £21.05 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +13.81%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.19 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.08% -48.03% +19.95%

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 4 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 1 February 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 -62 7 £525 -27.59% 5
East of England -15 4 £495 -17.50% 2
UK excluding London -63 4 £495 -31.72% 3
London -35 2 £525 -27.59% 3

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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Route 53
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) InfiniBand
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) RTP
3 1 (14.29%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (14.29%) SSH
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Advertising
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Network Services Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Service Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) LAMP
2 1 (14.29%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (14.29%) libvirt
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) CentOS
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Load Balancing
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team Management
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Kernel Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) People Management
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) RHCA
1 1 (14.29%) RHCE
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Ceph
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
1 1 (14.29%) iptables
1 1 (14.29%) KVM
1 1 (14.29%) Lustre
1 1 (14.29%) NFS
1 1 (14.29%) Postfix
1 1 (14.29%) Samba
1 1 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Stealthwatch
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) SELinux
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Infoblox
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Dialogic
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) jetNEXUS
3 1 (14.29%) Metaswitch
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) VMware