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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 524 575
Rank change year-on-year -54 +51 +122
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 4 19 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.053% 0.073%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.068% 0.37% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 31
10th Percentile £517 £480 £500
25th Percentile £524 £559 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.17% +38.10% -19.23%
75th Percentile £554 £744 £548
90th Percentile £558 £750 £569
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -22.76% +38.10% -0.76%
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 5,847 5,173 6,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 14.49% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,966 3,290 4,473
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -3.31% -5.57%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £693 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 71 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.50 £22.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.88 £72.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.32 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +26.73% -44.78% +75.36%

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 8 December 2025. 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
UK excluding London -46 3 £560 -22.76%
England -50 2 £525 -27.59%
Scotland - 2 £560 -
Work from Home -7 1 - -
London -8 1 £525 -27.59%
East of England - 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 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) RTP
2 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (25.00%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (25.00%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) KVM
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Ceph
3 1 (25.00%) Firmware
3 1 (25.00%) iptables
3 1 (25.00%) Lustre
3 1 (25.00%) NFS
3 1 (25.00%) Samba
3 1 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Fluentd
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (25.00%) Nagios
3 1 (25.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Commvault
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Dialogic
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Metaswitch