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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 412 337
Rank change year-on-year +85 -75 +3
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 398 151 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.51% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 90 141
10th Percentile £400 £323 £363
25th Percentile £450 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £527 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +17.00% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £61.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.69 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - -

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 46,152 29,871 33,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.49% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,085 18,553 20,430
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,056 1,793 1,507
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.78 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.58 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.32% -47.50% +7.50%

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 September 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 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 16 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 September 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 +54 357 £525 +1.25% 143
UK excluding London +63 261 £527 +17.00% 83
North of England +29 144 £519 -0.19% 15
London -19 109 £523 -6.70% 91
North West +29 105 £535 +2.88% 8
Work from Home -3 101 £530 +17.78% 167
Midlands -22 62 £529 +32.25% 10
West Midlands -20 61 £529 +32.25% 10
South East -26 41 £540 -1.86% 22
Yorkshire -21 30 £474 - 7
East of England 0 24 £528 +5.24% 5
Scotland -4 23 £419 -6.94% 15
South West -27 19 £675 -10.00% 14
North East -32 15 £500 +2.56% 1
East Midlands -17 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.26%) Confluence
3 4 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.75%) nginx
4 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 122 (30.65%) Azure
2 109 (27.39%) AWS
3 60 (15.08%) GCP
4 39 (9.80%) GitHub
5 29 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (6.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 22 (5.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (5.53%) OCI
10 19 (4.77%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.02%) OpenShift
12 15 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (3.27%) SaaS
15 12 (3.02%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.76%) Route 53
16 11 (2.76%) Serverless
17 10 (2.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 190 (47.74%) Firewall
2 171 (42.96%) DNS
3 127 (31.91%) VPN
4 91 (22.86%) BGP
5 88 (22.11%) Network Security
5 88 (22.11%) WAN
6 65 (16.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 63 (15.83%) TCP/IP
8 60 (15.08%) BIG-IP
9 51 (12.81%) SD-WAN
10 50 (12.56%) LAN
11 46 (11.56%) SSL
12 43 (10.80%) OSPF
13 42 (10.55%) HTTP
14 40 (10.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 38 (9.55%) DMZ
15 38 (9.55%) VXLAN
16 36 (9.05%) Multicast
17 35 (8.79%) DHCP
18 34 (8.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.52%) Relational Database
2 7 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.76%) Power BI
3 6 (1.51%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.01%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.75%) Big Data
5 3 (0.75%) EDRMS
5 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.75%) HBase
5 3 (0.75%) MySQL
5 3 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.25%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.25%) Metadata
7 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (11.31%) GitLab
2 24 (6.03%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.28%) Git
4 14 (3.52%) Fiddler
5 12 (3.02%) JIRA
6 3 (0.75%) JUnit
6 3 (0.75%) Maven
6 3 (0.75%) Selenium
6 3 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.50%) MSI
7 2 (0.50%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.25%) Ant
8 1 (0.25%) Introscope
8 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 82 (20.60%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.09%) Finance
3 59 (14.82%) Banking
4 39 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 37 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (8.04%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.02%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.51%) Legal
10 8 (2.01%) Retail
11 7 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.51%) Publishing
13 4 (1.01%) Law
14 3 (0.75%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.50%) Automotive
15 2 (0.50%) German Language
15 2 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 129 (32.41%) Network Engineer
2 60 (15.08%) Senior
3 47 (11.81%) Security Engineer
4 46 (11.56%) Architect
5 44 (11.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 37 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 35 (8.79%) Cisco Engineer
7 35 (8.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 34 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (8.54%) Network Security Engineer
9 28 (7.04%) Data Engineer
9 28 (7.04%) Data Network Engineer
10 27 (6.78%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 27 (6.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (6.78%) Web Engineer
11 19 (4.77%) Network Architect
12 18 (4.52%) Software Engineer
13 17 (4.27%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 16 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (33.42%) Terraform
2 14 (3.52%) REST
3 12 (3.02%) ARM Templates
4 11 (2.76%) Kafka
5 9 (2.26%) 802.1X
6 8 (2.01%) CSS
6 8 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (1.76%) React
8 6 (1.51%) Node.js
8 6 (1.51%) OAuth
9 5 (1.26%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (1.26%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.26%) OpenID
9 5 (1.26%) SAML
9 5 (1.26%) Spring
9 5 (1.26%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.01%) HTML
11 3 (0.75%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.75%) Keycloak
11 3 (0.75%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.08%) Data Centre
2 61 (15.33%) Cloud Native
3 48 (12.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (8.79%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 14 (3.52%) PKI
6 14 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 13 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.02%) Clustering
9 8 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.01%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.76%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.51%) Digital Signage
11 6 (1.51%) IoT
12 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.01%) Product Ownership
14 3 (0.75%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 82 (20.60%) Linux
2 56 (14.07%) Windows
3 24 (6.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.01%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.01%) Unix
6 3 (0.75%) CentOS
7 2 (0.50%) Android
7 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (34.17%) CI/CD
2 131 (32.91%) DevOps
3 115 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (23.87%) High Availability
5 70 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (17.34%) Agile
6 69 (17.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 60 (15.08%) Observability
8 53 (13.32%) Containerisation
8 53 (13.32%) Migration
9 52 (13.07%) Platform Engineering
10 50 (12.56%) Zero Trust
11 44 (11.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 41 (10.30%) Disaster Recovery
13 39 (9.80%) Infrastructure Automation
14 36 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (8.79%) Roadmaps
16 33 (8.29%) Change Management
17 32 (8.04%) Software Engineering
18 30 (7.54%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (28.89%) Python
2 61 (15.33%) Bash
3 57 (14.32%) PowerShell
4 35 (8.79%) Java
5 20 (5.03%) Bicep
6 15 (3.77%) SQL
7 10 (2.51%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.26%) Perl
9 7 (1.76%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.01%) Go
11 3 (0.75%) C++
12 2 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) C#
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) Jython
13 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 124 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 98 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 47 (11.81%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (6.28%) Azure Certification
4 25 (6.28%) CCNP
5 21 (5.28%) Degree
6 20 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.52%) AWS Certification
8 17 (4.27%) CCNA
9 13 (3.27%) CISSP
10 10 (2.51%) CCIE
10 10 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.01%) CCSE
13 4 (1.01%) CCSM
13 4 (1.01%) OCP
13 4 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.75%) VCAP
15 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.51%) QA
2 7 (1.76%) SLA
3 5 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.26%) NIST
4 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.75%) NCSC
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
5 2 (0.50%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) PSD2
6 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (17.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (9.80%) Docker
3 29 (7.29%) VMware NSX
4 22 (5.53%) Active Directory
5 21 (5.28%) vSphere
6 17 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (4.02%) Firmware
8 11 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (2.01%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.25%) KVM
12 1 (0.25%) NFS
12 1 (0.25%) Postfix
12 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 104 (26.13%) Kubernetes
2 86 (21.61%) Ansible
3 36 (9.05%) Grafana
4 30 (7.54%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.28%) Istio
6 19 (4.77%) FortiGate
6 19 (4.77%) vCenter Server
7 16 (4.02%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.52%) Argo
9 10 (2.51%) Puppet
10 7 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.51%) Cisco Prime
11 6 (1.51%) SCCM
12 5 (1.26%) Kustomize
12 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.26%) PowerCLI
13 4 (1.01%) Packer
13 4 (1.01%) systemd
14 3 (0.75%) SCOM
14 3 (0.75%) yum
Vendors
1 148 (37.19%) F5
2 111 (27.89%) Cisco
3 76 (19.10%) VMware
4 60 (15.08%) Palo Alto
5 46 (11.56%) Microsoft
6 32 (8.04%) Google
7 27 (6.78%) Arista
8 26 (6.53%) Red Hat
9 25 (6.28%) Aruba
10 23 (5.78%) Fortinet
11 22 (5.53%) Splunk
12 17 (4.27%) Juniper
12 17 (4.27%) NetApp
13 15 (3.77%) Blue Coat
13 15 (3.77%) Dynatrace
13 15 (3.77%) McAfee
14 14 (3.52%) SolarWinds
15 12 (3.02%) CheckPoint
16 11 (2.76%) AppDynamics
16 11 (2.76%) Infoblox