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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 385 377
Rank change year-on-year +79 -8 -26
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 388 141 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.53% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 84 138
10th Percentile £400 £386 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £580 £608 £600
90th Percentile £645 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +8.32% +2.70% -7.50%
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 42,365 26,787 37,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.77% 91.01% 85.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,429 17,005 23,768
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,540 1,187 2,585
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +15.02%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +77 350 £520 -3.26% 45
UK excluding London +75 269 £515 +8.32% 38
North of England +22 140 £515 -2.00% 12
North West +30 104 £537 +2.29% 11
Work from Home +9 97 £525 +16.67% 15
London -13 90 £506 -11.96% 17
West Midlands -4 69 £500 +25.00% 1
Midlands -10 69 £500 +25.00% 1
South East -25 60 £491 -10.68% 17
Yorkshire -26 30 £428 -4.89%
East of England -1 24 £525 +0.96% 1
Scotland +4 20 £413 -8.33% 3
South West -16 14 £663 +23.26% 4
North East -23 12 £650 +18.18% 1

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 (1.03%) Apache
1 4 (1.03%) Confluence
1 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.77%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.26%) CMS
4 1 (0.26%) JBoss
4 1 (0.26%) nginx
4 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.90%) Azure
2 99 (25.52%) AWS
3 51 (13.14%) GitHub
4 44 (11.34%) GCP
5 34 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (6.96%) OCI
7 23 (5.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 21 (5.41%) OpenShift
9 18 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.35%) Entra ID
12 13 (3.35%) SaaS
13 9 (2.32%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.06%) PaaS
15 7 (1.80%) Serverless
16 6 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 184 (47.42%) Firewall
2 178 (45.88%) DNS
3 106 (27.32%) BGP
4 103 (26.55%) VPN
5 95 (24.48%) WAN
6 88 (22.68%) BIG-IP
7 75 (19.33%) Network Security
8 64 (16.49%) LAN
9 61 (15.72%) OSPF
10 57 (14.69%) VXLAN
11 56 (14.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 52 (13.40%) SD-WAN
13 50 (12.89%) Ethernet VPN
14 47 (12.11%) TCP/IP
15 46 (11.86%) Multicast
15 46 (11.86%) SSL
16 44 (11.34%) DHCP
17 41 (10.57%) HTTP
18 40 (10.31%) DMZ
19 36 (9.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (1.80%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.55%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.29%) Power BI
4 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.77%) Big Data
4 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.77%) HBase
4 3 (0.77%) MySQL
4 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.52%) Redis
5 2 (0.52%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.26%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 44 (11.34%) Jenkins
2 36 (9.28%) GitLab
3 25 (6.44%) Fiddler
4 16 (4.12%) JIRA
5 14 (3.61%) Git
6 3 (0.77%) JUnit
6 3 (0.77%) Selenium
6 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.77%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.52%) Introscope
8 1 (0.26%) Ant
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Moq
8 1 (0.26%) NUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Serilog
8 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 59 (15.21%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.66%) Finance
3 52 (13.40%) Banking
4 37 (9.54%) Investment Banking
5 36 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.32%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.06%) Retail
9 6 (1.55%) Military
9 6 (1.55%) Publishing
9 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.29%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.03%) Legal
12 3 (0.77%) Advertising
12 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.26%) Automotive
13 1 (0.26%) Games
13 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 144 (37.11%) Network Engineer
2 54 (13.92%) Security Engineer
3 50 (12.89%) Senior
4 44 (11.34%) Architect
5 41 (10.57%) Network Security Engineer
5 41 (10.57%) Web Engineer
6 39 (10.05%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (10.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 37 (9.54%) Data Network Engineer
8 34 (8.76%) Data Engineer
9 33 (8.51%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 33 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 31 (7.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (5.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (5.41%) Lead
14 20 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (4.64%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 18 (4.64%) IP Network Engineer
16 17 (4.38%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.22%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.09%) Kafka
4 8 (2.06%) REST
5 7 (1.80%) Middleware
6 6 (1.55%) CSS
6 6 (1.55%) Node.js
7 4 (1.03%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.03%) OAuth
7 4 (1.03%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.03%) OpenID
7 4 (1.03%) React
7 4 (1.03%) Swagger
8 3 (0.77%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.77%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.77%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.77%) SAML
8 3 (0.77%) Spring
8 3 (0.77%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 84 (21.65%) Data Centre
2 60 (15.46%) Cloud Native
3 43 (11.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (8.25%) PKI
5 31 (7.99%) Clustering
6 27 (6.96%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.87%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.58%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (1.80%) IoT
9 7 (1.80%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 78 (20.10%) Windows
2 55 (14.18%) Linux
3 22 (5.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (4.12%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.58%) VMS
6 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.29%) Unix
8 4 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (30.93%) CI/CD
2 119 (30.67%) DevOps
3 113 (29.12%) High Availability
4 87 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (18.04%) Observability
7 68 (17.53%) Migration
8 54 (13.92%) Containerisation
9 49 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 48 (12.37%) Agile
11 46 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 41 (10.57%) Zero Trust
13 38 (9.79%) Identity Access Management
14 34 (8.76%) Roadmaps
15 33 (8.51%) Change Management
16 31 (7.99%) Disaster Recovery
16 31 (7.99%) Performance Optimisation
17 30 (7.73%) ITIL
17 30 (7.73%) Platform Engineering
18 28 (7.22%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 98 (25.26%) Python
2 49 (12.63%) Bash
3 29 (7.47%) PowerShell
4 22 (5.67%) Java
5 13 (3.35%) SQL
6 11 (2.84%) Bicep
7 5 (1.29%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.77%) Go
8 3 (0.77%) Groovy
8 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.77%) Perl
8 3 (0.77%) Ruby
9 2 (0.52%) Jython
10 1 (0.26%) C#
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 110 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 63 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 60 (15.46%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (7.99%) DV Cleared
5 30 (7.73%) CCNP
6 20 (5.15%) Degree
7 18 (4.64%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.61%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.09%) CCNA
10 9 (2.32%) CISSP
11 8 (2.06%) JNCIA
11 8 (2.06%) JNCIP
11 8 (2.06%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.80%) OCP
12 7 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.55%) CCIE
13 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.29%) CCSE
14 5 (1.29%) CCSM
14 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.84%) QA
2 10 (2.58%) SLA
3 6 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) NCSC
5 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 63 (16.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (11.86%) VMware NSX
3 37 (9.54%) Docker
4 28 (7.22%) vSphere
5 21 (5.41%) Active Directory
6 20 (5.15%) Firmware
7 13 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.52%) NFS
10 2 (0.52%) Postfix
10 2 (0.52%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.52%) Varnish
11 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (30.41%) Terraform
2 100 (25.77%) Kubernetes
3 93 (23.97%) Ansible
4 43 (11.08%) Grafana
5 34 (8.76%) FortiGate
6 28 (7.22%) Prometheus
7 25 (6.44%) Argo
8 24 (6.19%) vCenter Server
9 12 (3.09%) Progress Chef
10 11 (2.84%) Istio
11 10 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (2.32%) Puppet
13 8 (2.06%) SCCM
14 7 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (1.29%) HAProxy
16 3 (0.77%) Kustomize
16 3 (0.77%) Stealthwatch
16 3 (0.77%) systemd
16 3 (0.77%) yum
Vendors
1 178 (45.88%) F5
2 125 (32.22%) Cisco
3 83 (21.39%) VMware
4 64 (16.49%) Palo Alto
5 48 (12.37%) Splunk
6 43 (11.08%) Juniper
7 32 (8.25%) Arista
8 30 (7.73%) SolarWinds
9 29 (7.47%) Red Hat
10 28 (7.22%) Microsoft
11 26 (6.70%) Blue Coat
11 26 (6.70%) Google
11 26 (6.70%) McAfee
12 24 (6.19%) Aruba
13 22 (5.67%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (5.67%) Fortinet
14 20 (5.15%) NetApp
15 17 (4.38%) Pure Storage
16 15 (3.87%) CheckPoint
17 14 (3.61%) Dynatrace