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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 529 584
Rank change year-on-year -100 +55 +39
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 22 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.025% 0.019%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 6
10th Percentile £458 £430 £431
25th Percentile £466 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -13.04% +5.60%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £597
90th Percentile £552 £673 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -2.50% -11.11% +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 7,045 5,083 5,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.39% 15.65% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,810 3,355 3,840
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -2.51% -5.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 74 97
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.92
25th Percentile £22.21 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £57.50 £37.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.32% +16.15% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.66 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £78.34 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.89% +42.50% -13.21%

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 16 July 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 8 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 16 July 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 -94 21 £488 -23.53% 3
UK excluding London -93 14 £488 -2.50% 3
North of England - 10 £488 -
Yorkshire - 10 £488 -
London -64 8 £525 +31.25%
Work from Home -63 6 £475 -5.00% 1
South East - 3 £450 - 1
Scotland -13 1 £475 -5.00%

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 (40.91%) Apache
2 5 (22.73%) nginx
3 3 (13.64%) IIS
3 3 (13.64%) Tomcat
4 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (4.55%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 20 (90.91%) Azure
2 15 (68.18%) AWS
3 9 (40.91%) GitHub
4 8 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (27.27%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (27.27%) IaaS
5 6 (27.27%) PaaS
6 3 (13.64%) Cloudflare
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) CloudFront
8 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
3 2 (9.09%) BIG-IP
3 2 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) DHCP
4 1 (4.55%) ICMP
4 1 (4.55%) Internet
4 1 (4.55%) NAS
4 1 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (4.55%) SAN
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) SQL Server
2 10 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.64%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 9 (40.91%) Gatling
3 6 (27.27%) Artifactory
3 6 (27.27%) Maven
4 4 (18.18%) Git
General
1 5 (22.73%) Banking
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
1 7 (31.82%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Scala Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Scala Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Playwright
2 3 (13.64%) LAMP
2 3 (13.64%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (13.64%) YAML
3 2 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Public Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Unix
3 4 (18.18%) CentOS
4 3 (13.64%) Ubuntu
4 3 (13.64%) Windows
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) Roadmaps
3 8 (36.36%) Migration
3 8 (36.36%) Technical Debt
4 7 (31.82%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (31.82%) Product Roadmap
5 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 6 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
6 5 (22.73%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
8 3 (13.64%) Kernel Tuning
8 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (9.09%) Data Security
9 2 (9.09%) Load Balancing
9 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 9 (40.91%) Bash
3 9 (40.91%) Scala
4 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
5 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 4 (18.18%) Ruby
6 2 (9.09%) Go
6 2 (9.09%) Perl
6 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) RHCA
3 1 (4.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Docker
2 10 (45.45%) Postfix
3 7 (31.82%) Varnish
4 5 (22.73%) NFS
5 4 (18.18%) Sendmail
6 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
6 3 (13.64%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Terraform
2 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (36.36%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.55%) Grafana
6 1 (4.55%) Istio
6 1 (4.55%) linkerd
6 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Cisco
2 3 (13.64%) F5
2 3 (13.64%) Juniper
2 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace