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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 561 555
Rank change year-on-year -111 -6 +36
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 17 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.018% 0.021%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.28% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 6
10th Percentile £453 £492 £431
25th Percentile £475 £518 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £618 £594
90th Percentile £600 £652 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £530 £563
% change year-on-year -8.02% -5.78% +7.14%

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 6,062 4,650 4,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.05% 14.09% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,013 3,006 3,099
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £497
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.33% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 94 61
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £64.24 £26.23 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.96% -31.88% -30.00%
75th Percentile £73.81 £63.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.67 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.24 £21.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +200.33% -44.44% -16.63%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -111 16 £506 -22.12% 13
UK excluding London -94 12 £488 -8.02% 8
North of England - 6 £488 - 1
London -93 5 £563 - 3
Yorkshire - 5 £488 -
Work from Home -55 4 £475 - 4
South East - 3 £450 - 1
Scotland -29 1 £475 -10.38% 1
East of England - 1 £513 - 2
South West - 1 £638 - 2
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 9 (52.94%) Apache
2 7 (41.18%) nginx
3 3 (17.65%) IIS
3 3 (17.65%) Tomcat
4 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
5 1 (5.88%) Confluence
5 1 (5.88%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (23.53%) IaaS
4 4 (23.53%) PaaS
5 3 (17.65%) Cloudflare
6 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) CloudFront
7 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.88%) GCP
7 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) BIG-IP
3 2 (11.76%) SSL
4 1 (5.88%) Internet
4 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.88%) NAS
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (5.88%) SAN
4 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (29.41%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) Artifactory
2 5 (29.41%) Gatling
2 5 (29.41%) Git
3 3 (17.65%) Maven
4 2 (11.76%) GitLab
5 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (5.88%) Gerrit
5 1 (5.88%) JIRA
5 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (5.88%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 4 (23.53%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Military
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Playwright
3 4 (23.53%) LAMP
3 4 (23.53%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (23.53%) YAML
4 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) Keycloak
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (5.88%) cloud-init
5 1 (5.88%) Jolokia
5 1 (5.88%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (5.88%) LDAP
5 1 (5.88%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) OpenID
5 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) PKI
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Unix
3 4 (23.53%) CentOS
3 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
3 4 (23.53%) Windows
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.88%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (35.29%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) Configuration Management
4 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
4 5 (29.41%) Technical Debt
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Observability
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
7 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) Python
2 9 (52.94%) Bash
3 6 (35.29%) Java
4 5 (29.41%) Scala
5 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
6 3 (17.65%) Ruby
6 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
7 2 (11.76%) Go
7 2 (11.76%) Perl
7 2 (11.76%) SQL
8 1 (5.88%) C#
8 1 (5.88%) C++
8 1 (5.88%) Groovy
8 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
2 7 (41.18%) Postfix
3 4 (23.53%) Varnish
4 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
4 3 (17.65%) Dovecot
4 3 (17.65%) NFS
4 3 (17.65%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (29.41%) Grafana
2 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
3 3 (17.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
4 2 (11.76%) linkerd
4 2 (11.76%) Puppet
5 1 (5.88%) Argo
5 1 (5.88%) Consul
5 1 (5.88%) Istio
5 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (5.88%) Packer
5 1 (5.88%) Rancher
5 1 (5.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) F5
2 3 (17.65%) Juniper
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Apple
3 1 (5.88%) Coverity
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) ESET
3 1 (5.88%) Okta
3 1 (5.88%) Perforce
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk