HAProxy Contract Job Trends

HAProxy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HAProxy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 561 614
Rank change year-on-year +22 +53 +147
Contract jobs citing HAProxy 8 8 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.021% 0.096%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.16% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 36
10th Percentile £485 £431 £450
25th Percentile £500 £469 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £669 £594 £555
90th Percentile £673 £644 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -5.78% +7.14% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
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 5,170 5,160 7,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.83% 13.57% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,397 3,500 5,224
10th Percentile £300 £307 £325
25th Percentile £410 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £668
90th Percentile £682 £704 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 179
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.45
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £33.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.03% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £63.06 £60.00 £75.25
90th Percentile £67.78 £74.00 £79.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.50% -15.01% +114.79%

HAProxy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HAProxy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HAProxy 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 September 2025.

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 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 16 September 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 +6 5 £530 -5.78% 1
England +14 4 £644 +7.29% 1
Scotland - 4 £500 -
Work from Home +38 2 £500 - 2
London +31 2 - -
South West +22 1 £638 +41.67%

HAProxy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) BGP
1 3 (37.50%) OSPF
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) IPsec
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) Multicast
2 2 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VLAN
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (12.50%) IPv4
3 1 (12.50%) IPv6
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (25.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Juniper Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Kanban
3 3 (37.50%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
4 2 (25.00%) Change Control
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Network Design
4 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (37.50%) Perl
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (12.50%) Go
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) JNCIA
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) CCIE
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) KVM
3 2 (25.00%) Firmware
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (25.00%) Fluentd
4 2 (25.00%) Nagios
5 1 (12.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Commvault
1 3 (37.50%) F5
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) ForgeRock
3 1 (12.50%) Genesys
3 1 (12.50%) NetApp