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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 376 361
Rank change year-on-year +72 -15 -31
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 385 146 226
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.51% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.56% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 84 143
10th Percentile £400 £369 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +8.79% - -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 41,363 26,184 36,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 91.01% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,810 16,717 23,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -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 2,496 1,118 2,535
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.98 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.19 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.14 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +66 345 £525 -6.67% 63
UK excluding London +61 263 £517 +8.79% 46
North of England +12 138 £515 -4.28% 11
North West +28 105 £528 -4.00% 5
Work from Home +18 100 £525 +16.67% 21
London -32 92 £525 -8.70% 31
Midlands -3 68 £500 +25.00% 3
West Midlands -6 68 £500 +25.00% 2
South East -16 58 £520 -5.45% 17
Yorkshire -35 28 £428 -4.89% 1
East of England -8 23 £525 - 4
Scotland +11 20 £413 -8.33% 4
South West -21 13 £663 +23.26% 5
North East -20 11 £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 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.04%) Apache
2 4 (1.04%) Confluence
3 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.52%) nginx
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) JBoss
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 114 (29.61%) Azure
2 103 (26.75%) AWS
3 53 (13.77%) GitHub
4 47 (12.21%) GCP
5 36 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (6.75%) OCI
7 22 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 22 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (5.19%) OpenShift
10 15 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (3.12%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.12%) Entra ID
12 12 (3.12%) SaaS
13 11 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (2.34%) Serverless
15 8 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 186 (48.31%) Firewall
2 172 (44.68%) DNS
3 104 (27.01%) BGP
4 101 (26.23%) VPN
5 95 (24.68%) WAN
6 87 (22.60%) BIG-IP
7 73 (18.96%) Network Security
8 64 (16.62%) LAN
9 61 (15.84%) OSPF
10 56 (14.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 55 (14.29%) VXLAN
12 50 (12.99%) SD-WAN
13 49 (12.73%) Ethernet VPN
14 48 (12.47%) TCP/IP
15 45 (11.69%) Multicast
16 43 (11.17%) DHCP
17 40 (10.39%) SSL
18 39 (10.13%) DMZ
18 39 (10.13%) HTTP
19 38 (9.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.56%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.56%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.04%) Power BI
4 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.78%) Big Data
4 3 (0.78%) HBase
4 3 (0.78%) MySQL
4 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.78%) 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 48 (12.47%) Jenkins
2 38 (9.87%) GitLab
3 25 (6.49%) Fiddler
4 16 (4.16%) Git
4 16 (4.16%) JIRA
5 4 (1.04%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.78%) JUnit
6 3 (0.78%) Selenium
6 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.52%) Introscope
7 2 (0.52%) Spinnaker
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
General
1 59 (15.32%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.51%) Finance
3 50 (12.99%) Banking
4 36 (9.35%) Investment Banking
4 36 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.60%) Retail
7 8 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.56%) Military
9 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.78%) Advertising
10 3 (0.78%) Legal
10 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.78%) Publishing
11 1 (0.26%) Automotive
11 1 (0.26%) Billing
11 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (38.18%) Network Engineer
2 53 (13.77%) Security Engineer
3 50 (12.99%) Senior
4 47 (12.21%) Architect
5 41 (10.65%) Web Engineer
6 40 (10.39%) Network Security Engineer
7 38 (9.87%) Cisco Engineer
7 38 (9.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 36 (9.35%) Data Network Engineer
9 33 (8.57%) Data Engineer
10 32 (8.31%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 32 (8.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (5.45%) Lead
14 21 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (4.68%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 18 (4.68%) IP Network Engineer
16 17 (4.42%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.27%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.12%) Kafka
4 8 (2.08%) REST
5 7 (1.82%) Middleware
6 6 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.56%) Node.js
7 4 (1.04%) CSS
7 4 (1.04%) OAuth
7 4 (1.04%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.04%) OpenID
7 4 (1.04%) React
7 4 (1.04%) Swagger
8 3 (0.78%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.78%) JSON
8 3 (0.78%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.78%) LDAP
8 3 (0.78%) SAML
8 3 (0.78%) Spring
8 3 (0.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 86 (22.34%) Data Centre
2 58 (15.06%) Cloud Native
3 39 (10.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (9.09%) PKI
5 31 (8.05%) Clustering
6 27 (7.01%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.16%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.60%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.08%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.82%) IoT
11 6 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.56%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.78%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
14 3 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 79 (20.52%) Windows
2 53 (13.77%) Linux
3 19 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (4.42%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.12%) VMS
6 7 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.30%) Unix
8 4 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.78%) 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
1 118 (30.65%) CI/CD
2 116 (30.13%) DevOps
3 111 (28.83%) High Availability
4 85 (22.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (17.92%) Migration
7 68 (17.66%) Observability
8 50 (12.99%) Containerisation
9 47 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 46 (11.95%) Agile
11 45 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 39 (10.13%) Zero Trust
13 37 (9.61%) Identity Access Management
14 36 (9.35%) Roadmaps
15 33 (8.57%) Change Management
16 31 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
16 31 (8.05%) Performance Optimisation
17 30 (7.79%) ITIL
18 29 (7.53%) Network Design
19 28 (7.27%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (24.68%) Python
2 45 (11.69%) Bash
3 29 (7.53%) PowerShell
4 21 (5.45%) Java
5 12 (3.12%) SQL
6 8 (2.08%) Bicep
7 4 (1.04%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.78%) Groovy
8 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.78%) Perl
8 3 (0.78%) Ruby
9 2 (0.52%) Go
9 2 (0.52%) Jython
10 1 (0.26%) C#
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 109 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 63 (16.36%) Cisco Certification
3 62 (16.10%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.57%) CCNP
5 31 (8.05%) DV Cleared
6 20 (5.19%) Degree
7 19 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 16 (4.16%) AWS Certification
9 13 (3.38%) CCNA
10 9 (2.34%) CISSP
11 8 (2.08%) CCIE
11 8 (2.08%) JNCIA
11 8 (2.08%) JNCIP
11 8 (2.08%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.82%) OCP
12 7 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.30%) CCSE
14 5 (1.30%) CCSM
15 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.86%) QA
2 9 (2.34%) SLA
3 6 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.78%) 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 62 (16.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (11.95%) VMware NSX
3 40 (10.39%) Docker
4 27 (7.01%) vSphere
5 24 (6.23%) Active Directory
6 20 (5.19%) Firmware
7 11 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.52%) NFS
11 2 (0.52%) Postfix
11 2 (0.52%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.52%) Varnish
12 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 115 (29.87%) Terraform
2 99 (25.71%) Kubernetes
3 95 (24.68%) Ansible
4 38 (9.87%) Grafana
5 35 (9.09%) FortiGate
6 24 (6.23%) Argo
7 23 (5.97%) Prometheus
8 22 (5.71%) vCenter Server
9 12 (3.12%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.60%) Istio
11 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (1.82%) SCCM
12 7 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (1.56%) Puppet
14 5 (1.30%) HAProxy
15 4 (1.04%) Kibana
16 3 (0.78%) Karpenter
16 3 (0.78%) Stealthwatch
17 2 (0.52%) Cilium
Vendors
1 179 (46.49%) F5
2 125 (32.47%) Cisco
3 82 (21.30%) VMware
4 64 (16.62%) Palo Alto
5 46 (11.95%) Splunk
6 42 (10.91%) Juniper
7 30 (7.79%) Arista
8 28 (7.27%) Google
8 28 (7.27%) Red Hat
8 28 (7.27%) SolarWinds
9 26 (6.75%) Blue Coat
9 26 (6.75%) McAfee
9 26 (6.75%) Microsoft
10 24 (6.23%) Aruba
11 22 (5.71%) Extreme Networks
12 21 (5.45%) Fortinet
13 20 (5.19%) NetApp
14 17 (4.42%) CheckPoint
14 17 (4.42%) Pure Storage
15 12 (3.12%) Dynatrace