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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 536 593
Rank change year-on-year -31 +57 +120
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 5 15 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.041% 0.085%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.088% 0.29% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 33
10th Percentile - £450 £455
25th Percentile - £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +38.10% -19.23%
75th Percentile - £750 £550
90th Percentile - - £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £738 £525
% change year-on-year -24.07% +40.48% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
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 5,701 5,197 6,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.24% 14.32% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,812 3,319 4,729
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -4.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 62 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.67 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.59 £32.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -38.10% +104.20%
75th Percentile £63.25 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.05 £74.40 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -23.08% -29.62% +100.78%

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 17 November 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 -43 3 £560 -24.07% 3
England -50 3 - - 4
London +6 2 - - 2
Scotland - 2 £560 -
Work from Home +4 1 - - 1
East of England - 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 2 (40.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) IPsec
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) Multicast
1 2 (40.00%) OSPF
1 2 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VLAN
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Juniper Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Firmware
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) KVM
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Fluentd
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Commvault
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Dialogic
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Metaswitch