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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 376 357
Rank change year-on-year +77 -19 -12
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 376 146 228
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.51% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.56% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 84 145
10th Percentile £390 £369 £339
25th Percentile £445 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
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 41,181 26,010 36,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 91.03% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,765 16,696 23,578
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,462 1,066 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.92 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +56 337 £525 - 62
UK excluding London +44 260 £525 +10.53% 48
North of England +14 134 £529 +0.67% 15
North West +20 101 £540 +2.86% 10
Work from Home +12 92 £525 +16.67% 21
London -20 88 £525 -8.70% 26
West Midlands -5 68 £500 +37.93% 2
Midlands -15 68 £500 +37.93% 4
South East -14 58 £520 -0.95% 14
Yorkshire -30 27 £428 -4.89% 1
East of England -7 23 £525 - 3
Scotland +12 20 £413 -8.33% 5
South West -26 13 £675 +38.46% 7
North East -15 10 £650 +18.18% 5

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 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.06%) Apache
2 4 (1.06%) Confluence
3 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.80%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.53%) nginx
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 105 (27.93%) Azure
2 89 (23.67%) AWS
3 50 (13.30%) GitHub
4 41 (10.90%) GCP
5 33 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (6.65%) OCI
7 21 (5.59%) OpenShift
8 19 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (3.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (3.19%) Amazon S3
14 11 (2.93%) Entra ID
14 11 (2.93%) SaaS
15 10 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.39%) Serverless
17 8 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (47.87%) Firewall
2 170 (45.21%) DNS
3 103 (27.39%) BGP
4 99 (26.33%) VPN
5 93 (24.73%) WAN
6 88 (23.40%) BIG-IP
7 72 (19.15%) Network Security
8 64 (17.02%) LAN
9 61 (16.22%) OSPF
10 57 (15.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 55 (14.63%) VXLAN
12 49 (13.03%) Ethernet VPN
13 48 (12.77%) SD-WAN
13 48 (12.77%) TCP/IP
14 45 (11.97%) Multicast
15 42 (11.17%) DHCP
16 40 (10.64%) DMZ
17 39 (10.37%) HTTP
17 39 (10.37%) SSL
18 38 (10.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.60%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.06%) Power BI
4 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.80%) MySQL
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.53%) Big Data
5 2 (0.53%) HBase
5 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.53%) Redis
5 2 (0.53%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 45 (11.97%) Jenkins
2 34 (9.04%) GitLab
3 26 (6.91%) Fiddler
4 15 (3.99%) JIRA
5 14 (3.72%) Git
6 4 (1.06%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.53%) Introscope
8 2 (0.53%) JUnit
8 2 (0.53%) Selenium
8 2 (0.53%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.27%) Ant
9 1 (0.27%) Maven
9 1 (0.27%) Moq
9 1 (0.27%) NUnit
9 1 (0.27%) Serilog
General
1 62 (16.49%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.30%) Banking
3 45 (11.97%) Finance
4 37 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 36 (9.57%) Investment Banking
6 13 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.93%) Retail
8 8 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.86%) Military
10 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.80%) Advertising
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.53%) Publishing
13 1 (0.27%) Automotive
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 147 (39.10%) Network Engineer
2 50 (13.30%) Senior
3 49 (13.03%) Architect
4 47 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 42 (11.17%) Web Engineer
6 40 (10.64%) Network Security Engineer
7 38 (10.11%) Cisco Engineer
7 38 (10.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 36 (9.57%) Data Network Engineer
9 33 (8.78%) Data Engineer
10 32 (8.51%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 32 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (6.65%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (5.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (5.59%) Lead
13 21 (5.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 20 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.79%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 18 (4.79%) IP Network Engineer
16 17 (4.52%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.45%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.99%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (2.66%) Kafka
4 7 (1.86%) Middleware
4 7 (1.86%) REST
5 6 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.60%) Node.js
6 4 (1.06%) OAuth
6 4 (1.06%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.06%) OpenID
6 4 (1.06%) Swagger
7 3 (0.80%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.80%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.80%) JSON
7 3 (0.80%) Keycloak
7 3 (0.80%) LDAP
7 3 (0.80%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.80%) React
7 3 (0.80%) SAML
7 3 (0.80%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.61%) Data Centre
2 48 (12.77%) Cloud Native
3 37 (9.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (9.31%) PKI
5 30 (7.98%) Clustering
6 21 (5.59%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.26%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.13%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.86%) IoT
10 6 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.80%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (19.15%) Windows
2 45 (11.97%) Linux
3 17 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.46%) VMS
5 11 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.33%) Unix
8 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.72%) High Availability
2 106 (28.19%) CI/CD
3 102 (27.13%) DevOps
4 79 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (17.82%) Migration
7 60 (15.96%) Observability
8 47 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 45 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 44 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 39 (10.37%) Agile
12 38 (10.11%) Identity Access Management
13 37 (9.84%) Zero Trust
14 32 (8.51%) Disaster Recovery
15 31 (8.24%) Performance Optimisation
16 30 (7.98%) ITIL
16 30 (7.98%) Roadmaps
17 28 (7.45%) Network Design
18 27 (7.18%) Change Management
18 27 (7.18%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 86 (22.87%) Python
2 37 (9.84%) Bash
3 22 (5.85%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.46%) Java
5 10 (2.66%) SQL
6 8 (2.13%) Bicep
7 4 (1.06%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.80%) Groovy
8 3 (0.80%) Perl
8 3 (0.80%) Ruby
9 2 (0.53%) Go
9 2 (0.53%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.53%) Jython
10 1 (0.27%) C#
10 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 109 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.02%) Cisco Certification
3 63 (16.76%) SC Cleared
4 34 (9.04%) CCNP
5 32 (8.51%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.72%) Degree
7 13 (3.46%) CCNA
8 12 (3.19%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.39%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.39%) CCIE
10 8 (2.13%) JNCIA
10 8 (2.13%) JNCIP
10 8 (2.13%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.86%) OCP
11 7 (1.86%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (1.33%) CCSE
12 5 (1.33%) CCSM
13 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.66%) QA
2 9 (2.39%) SLA
3 6 (1.60%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.80%) NCSC
5 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 62 (16.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 32 (8.51%) Docker
4 26 (6.91%) vSphere
5 25 (6.65%) Active Directory
6 20 (5.32%) Firmware
7 10 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.53%) NFS
11 2 (0.53%) Postfix
11 2 (0.53%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.53%) Varnish
12 1 (0.27%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (27.66%) Terraform
2 94 (25.00%) Ansible
3 89 (23.67%) Kubernetes
4 37 (9.84%) Grafana
5 35 (9.31%) FortiGate
6 24 (6.38%) Argo
7 22 (5.85%) Prometheus
8 21 (5.59%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.39%) Istio
9 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.86%) SCCM
12 6 (1.60%) Puppet
13 5 (1.33%) HAProxy
13 5 (1.33%) Progress Chef
14 4 (1.06%) Kibana
15 3 (0.80%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.80%) Stealthwatch
16 2 (0.53%) Avamar
Vendors
1 182 (48.40%) F5
2 125 (33.24%) Cisco
3 84 (22.34%) VMware
4 62 (16.49%) Palo Alto
5 46 (12.23%) Splunk
6 42 (11.17%) Juniper
7 30 (7.98%) Arista
8 28 (7.45%) SolarWinds
9 27 (7.18%) Blue Coat
9 27 (7.18%) McAfee
9 27 (7.18%) Microsoft
10 24 (6.38%) Aruba
11 22 (5.85%) Extreme Networks
12 21 (5.59%) Google
12 21 (5.59%) Red Hat
13 20 (5.32%) Fortinet
13 20 (5.32%) NetApp
14 18 (4.79%) CheckPoint
15 17 (4.52%) Pure Storage
16 12 (3.19%) Dynatrace