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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 501 582
Rank change year-on-year -101 +81 +68
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 9 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.056% 0.023%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.14% 0.36% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 8
10th Percentile £469 £579 £513
25th Percentile £473 £594 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £536
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +35.32% -15.96%
75th Percentile £538 £750 £559
90th Percentile - - £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £725 £530
% change year-on-year -31.72% +36.79% +0.76%

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 6,421 4,753 5,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 15.70% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,443 3,113 3,782
10th Percentile £315 £313 £260
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 £633
90th Percentile £688 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 54 145
10th Percentile £18.43 £16.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.82% -36.25% -23.27%
75th Percentile £64.20 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.65 £76.58 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £24.09 £40.00
% change year-on-year +121.05% -39.78% -14.53%

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 5 March 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 -95 9 £525 -27.59% 7
East of England -23 4 £495 -17.50%
London -54 4 £525 -27.59% 5
UK excluding London -95 4 £495 -31.72% 2

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 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Route 53
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 6 (66.67%) DHCP
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) Firewall
5 1 (11.11%) ICMP
5 1 (11.11%) InfiniBand
5 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
5 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
5 1 (11.11%) LAN
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (11.11%) RTP
5 1 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (11.11%) SSH
5 1 (11.11%) VLAN
5 1 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Advertising
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
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%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
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%) 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%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Unix
4 2 (22.22%) CentOS
4 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Load Balancing
2 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Team Management
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Kernel Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) BDD
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Ruby
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) RHCA
2 1 (11.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) NFS
1 2 (22.22%) Postfix
1 2 (22.22%) Varnish
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Ceph
2 1 (11.11%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) iptables
2 1 (11.11%) KVM
2 1 (11.11%) Lustre
2 1 (11.11%) Samba
2 1 (11.11%) Sendmail
2 1 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Stealthwatch
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) Istio
4 1 (11.11%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Dialogic
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) jetNEXUS
3 1 (11.11%) Metaswitch
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) VMware