Load Balancing Contract Job Trends

Load Balancing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 371 343
Rank change year-on-year +67 -28 -11
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 362 146 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.50% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.55% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 80 155
10th Percentile £375 £358 £328
25th Percentile £449 £425 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £639 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - £45.88
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.02 - £45.88

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Load Balancing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,111 26,361 36,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.96% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,183 16,941 23,723
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.71% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,073 2,431
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.41 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.78 £38.00
% change year-on-year +74.59% -32.17% +8.57%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in the UK

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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 +71 327 £525 +1.14% 80
UK excluding London +43 252 £525 +10.53% 73
North of England +11 130 £529 +3.12% 27
North West +18 100 £555 +8.29% 16
Work from Home +17 90 £525 +16.67% 22
London -14 87 £525 -8.70% 21
West Midlands +7 73 £529 +84.00% 1
Midlands +1 73 £529 +84.00% 5
South East -14 57 £525 +10.53% 20
Yorkshire -32 26 £464 +3.11% 3
East of England -13 22 £525 - 5
Scotland +17 17 £413 -8.33% 9
South West -30 10 £691 +41.79% 7
North East -11 7 £650 +18.18% 8

Load Balancing
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 4 (1.10%) Apache
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.83%) Confluence
2 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.83%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.55%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.55%) nginx
3 2 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.55%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.28%) CMS
4 1 (0.28%) JBoss
4 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 100 (27.62%) Azure
2 73 (20.17%) AWS
3 56 (15.47%) GitHub
4 38 (10.50%) GCP
4 38 (10.50%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (5.80%) OpenShift
6 20 (5.52%) OCI
7 16 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (3.04%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.04%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.76%) SaaS
12 9 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (2.49%) Azure AKS
12 9 (2.49%) Serverless
13 8 (2.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 175 (48.34%) Firewall
2 170 (46.96%) DNS
3 96 (26.52%) BGP
4 90 (24.86%) VPN
5 85 (23.48%) BIG-IP
6 84 (23.20%) WAN
7 65 (17.96%) Network Security
8 56 (15.47%) LAN
8 56 (15.47%) OSPF
9 54 (14.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 49 (13.54%) TCP/IP
11 48 (13.26%) VXLAN
12 44 (12.15%) Multicast
13 43 (11.88%) DHCP
14 42 (11.60%) Ethernet VPN
15 41 (11.33%) DMZ
15 41 (11.33%) SD-WAN
16 39 (10.77%) SSL
17 38 (10.50%) HTTP
18 37 (10.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.10%) Power BI
1 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.83%) MongoDB
2 3 (0.83%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.55%) Redis
3 2 (0.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.28%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.28%) Metadata
4 1 (0.28%) MySQL
4 1 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 43 (11.88%) Jenkins
2 28 (7.73%) Fiddler
3 23 (6.35%) GitLab
4 11 (3.04%) JIRA
5 9 (2.49%) Git
6 4 (1.10%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.83%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.55%) Introscope
9 1 (0.28%) Ant
9 1 (0.28%) Maven
9 1 (0.28%) Moq
9 1 (0.28%) NUnit
9 1 (0.28%) Serilog
General
1 61 (16.85%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.54%) Banking
3 42 (11.60%) Finance
4 37 (10.22%) Investment Banking
5 32 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.76%) Retail
8 9 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.93%) Military
10 6 (1.66%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Advertising
12 3 (0.83%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Automotive
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 141 (38.95%) Network Engineer
2 51 (14.09%) Architect
3 46 (12.71%) Security Engineer
4 44 (12.15%) Web Engineer
5 42 (11.60%) Senior
6 39 (10.77%) Network Security Engineer
7 37 (10.22%) Cisco Engineer
7 37 (10.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 36 (9.94%) Data Network Engineer
9 33 (9.12%) Data Engineer
10 32 (8.84%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 26 (7.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 21 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (5.80%) Lead
14 19 (5.25%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 19 (5.25%) IP Network Engineer
15 17 (4.70%) Network Architect
15 17 (4.70%) Network Specialist
16 16 (4.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.73%) 802.1X
2 14 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (2.21%) LDAP
4 7 (1.93%) Middleware
5 6 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.66%) Kafka
5 6 (1.66%) REST
6 5 (1.38%) Node.js
6 5 (1.38%) OAuth
6 5 (1.38%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.38%) OpenAPI
6 5 (1.38%) OpenID
6 5 (1.38%) Swagger
7 4 (1.10%) SAML
7 4 (1.10%) VML
8 3 (0.83%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.83%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.83%) JSON
8 3 (0.83%) React
9 2 (0.55%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 80 (22.10%) Data Centre
2 44 (12.15%) Cloud Native
3 33 (9.12%) PKI
4 32 (8.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (7.73%) Clustering
6 23 (6.35%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.70%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.21%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.93%) IoT
10 6 (1.66%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.38%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.83%) Replication
13 3 (0.83%) SCADA
13 3 (0.83%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 72 (19.89%) Windows
2 41 (11.33%) Linux
3 20 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.59%) VMS
5 7 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.66%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.38%) CentOS
7 5 (1.38%) Unix
8 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.55%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (28.18%) High Availability
2 99 (27.35%) DevOps
3 97 (26.80%) CI/CD
4 74 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (19.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (19.34%) Migration
7 56 (15.47%) Observability
8 41 (11.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 39 (10.77%) Containerisation
10 38 (10.50%) Identity Access Management
10 38 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 37 (10.22%) Agile
12 31 (8.56%) ITIL
13 30 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 30 (8.29%) Performance Optimisation
13 30 (8.29%) Zero Trust
14 29 (8.01%) Data Loss Prevention
15 28 (7.73%) Malware Detection/Protection
16 27 (7.46%) Network Design
16 27 (7.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 81 (22.38%) Python
2 40 (11.05%) Bash
3 27 (7.46%) PowerShell
4 9 (2.49%) Bicep
5 8 (2.21%) SQL
6 7 (1.93%) Java
7 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.83%) C#
8 3 (0.83%) Groovy
9 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.55%) Jython
9 2 (0.55%) Perl
9 2 (0.55%) Ruby
10 1 (0.28%) Go
10 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 103 (28.45%) Security Cleared
2 59 (16.30%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.12%) CCNP
4 28 (7.73%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.87%) Degree
6 11 (3.04%) CCIE
7 9 (2.49%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.49%) CCNA
8 8 (2.21%) JNCIA
8 8 (2.21%) JNCIP
8 8 (2.21%) JNCIS
9 7 (1.93%) OCP
9 7 (1.93%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.38%) CCSM
11 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.10%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.21%) SLA
2 6 (1.66%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (1.66%) QA
3 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.83%) NCSC
4 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 63 (17.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (12.98%) VMware NSX
3 28 (7.73%) Docker
4 27 (7.46%) Active Directory
5 24 (6.63%) vSphere
6 21 (5.80%) Firmware
7 9 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.66%) Postfix
9 5 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.10%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.55%) NFS
11 2 (0.55%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.55%) Varnish
12 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.28%) XenApp
12 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 97 (26.80%) Terraform
2 85 (23.48%) Ansible
3 78 (21.55%) Kubernetes
4 35 (9.67%) FortiGate
5 32 (8.84%) Grafana
6 22 (6.08%) Argo
7 20 (5.52%) vCenter Server
8 17 (4.70%) Prometheus
9 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (2.49%) SCCM
9 9 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.93%) Istio
12 5 (1.38%) HAProxy
12 5 (1.38%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.10%) Kibana
14 3 (0.83%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.83%) Puppet
14 3 (0.83%) Stealthwatch
15 2 (0.55%) Cilium
Vendors
1 177 (48.90%) F5
2 120 (33.15%) Cisco
3 85 (23.48%) VMware
4 53 (14.64%) Palo Alto
5 44 (12.15%) Splunk
6 41 (11.33%) Juniper
7 30 (8.29%) Microsoft
8 29 (8.01%) McAfee
9 28 (7.73%) Blue Coat
10 27 (7.46%) SolarWinds
11 25 (6.91%) Arista
12 22 (6.08%) Extreme Networks
13 21 (5.80%) NetApp
13 21 (5.80%) Red Hat
14 19 (5.25%) Aruba
15 18 (4.97%) Google
16 17 (4.70%) CheckPoint
16 17 (4.70%) Pure Storage
17 16 (4.42%) Fortinet
18 12 (3.31%) Dynatrace