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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 379 372
Rank change year-on-year +74 -7 -39
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 386 145 223
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.50% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.55% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 84 140
10th Percentile £400 £369 £350
25th Percentile £441 £425 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +8.32% - -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 41,432 26,234 36,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 91.00% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,858 16,712 23,486
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,493 1,127 2,523
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +68 346 £525 -6.67% 62
UK excluding London +53 263 £515 +8.32% 43
North of England +16 137 £514 -4.37% 8
North West +28 103 £533 -3.18% 3
Work from Home +19 99 £525 +16.67% 24
London -19 93 £525 -8.70% 32
West Midlands -8 67 £500 +25.00% 2
Midlands -10 67 £500 +25.00% 3
South East -14 59 £491 -10.68% 17
Yorkshire -35 29 £428 -4.89% 1
East of England -10 23 £525 - 3
Scotland +4 20 £413 -8.33% 3
South West -26 13 £663 +23.26% 6
North East -18 11 £650 +18.18% 4

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
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (30.05%) Azure
2 103 (26.68%) AWS
3 54 (13.99%) GitHub
4 47 (12.18%) GCP
5 37 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (6.74%) OCI
7 22 (5.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 22 (5.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (5.44%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (3.11%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.11%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.11%) SaaS
12 11 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (2.33%) Serverless
14 8 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 185 (47.93%) Firewall
2 175 (45.34%) DNS
3 104 (26.94%) BGP
4 101 (26.17%) VPN
5 93 (24.09%) WAN
6 86 (22.28%) BIG-IP
7 74 (19.17%) Network Security
8 64 (16.58%) LAN
9 60 (15.54%) OSPF
10 55 (14.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 55 (14.25%) VXLAN
11 50 (12.95%) SD-WAN
12 49 (12.69%) Ethernet VPN
13 47 (12.18%) TCP/IP
14 45 (11.66%) Multicast
15 44 (11.40%) DHCP
16 40 (10.36%) SSL
17 39 (10.10%) DMZ
17 39 (10.10%) HTTP
18 36 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.55%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.55%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.30%) Power BI
4 4 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.78%) Big Data
5 3 (0.78%) HBase
5 3 (0.78%) MySQL
5 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.52%) Redis
6 2 (0.52%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.26%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 48 (12.44%) Jenkins
2 38 (9.84%) GitLab
3 24 (6.22%) Fiddler
4 16 (4.15%) Git
4 16 (4.15%) 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 60 (15.54%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.73%) Finance
3 49 (12.69%) Banking
4 35 (9.07%) Investment Banking
4 35 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.33%) Retail
7 8 (2.07%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.55%) Military
8 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
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
1 144 (37.31%) Network Engineer
2 53 (13.73%) Security Engineer
3 50 (12.95%) Senior
4 48 (12.44%) Architect
5 40 (10.36%) Network Security Engineer
5 40 (10.36%) Web Engineer
6 38 (9.84%) Cisco Engineer
6 38 (9.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 36 (9.33%) Data Network Engineer
8 33 (8.55%) Data Engineer
9 32 (8.29%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 32 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (5.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (5.44%) Lead
13 21 (5.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 17 (4.40%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 17 (4.40%) IP Network Engineer
14 17 (4.40%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.99%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.11%) Kafka
4 8 (2.07%) REST
5 7 (1.81%) Middleware
6 6 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.55%) Node.js
7 5 (1.30%) CSS
8 4 (1.04%) OAuth
8 4 (1.04%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.04%) OpenID
8 4 (1.04%) React
8 4 (1.04%) Swagger
9 3 (0.78%) JSON
9 3 (0.78%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.78%) LDAP
9 3 (0.78%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.78%) SAML
9 3 (0.78%) Spring
9 3 (0.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 84 (21.76%) Data Centre
2 59 (15.28%) Cloud Native
3 39 (10.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (9.07%) PKI
5 31 (8.03%) Clustering
6 26 (6.74%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.15%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.59%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.07%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.81%) IoT
11 6 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.78%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 80 (20.73%) Windows
2 53 (13.73%) Linux
3 19 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (4.66%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.11%) VMS
6 7 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.81%) 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
1 120 (31.09%) CI/CD
2 117 (30.31%) DevOps
3 111 (28.76%) High Availability
4 86 (22.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 72 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (18.13%) Migration
7 69 (17.88%) Observability
8 51 (13.21%) Containerisation
9 47 (12.18%) Agile
9 47 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 46 (11.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 40 (10.36%) Zero Trust
12 37 (9.59%) Identity Access Management
13 36 (9.33%) Roadmaps
14 33 (8.55%) Change Management
15 31 (8.03%) Disaster Recovery
15 31 (8.03%) ITIL
15 31 (8.03%) Performance Optimisation
16 29 (7.51%) Infrastructure Automation
17 28 (7.25%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 95 (24.61%) Python
2 45 (11.66%) Bash
3 30 (7.77%) PowerShell
4 21 (5.44%) Java
5 13 (3.37%) SQL
6 8 (2.07%) 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
1 110 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 63 (16.32%) SC Cleared
3 62 (16.06%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (8.29%) CCNP
5 31 (8.03%) DV Cleared
6 20 (5.18%) Azure Certification
6 20 (5.18%) Degree
7 16 (4.15%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.37%) CCNA
9 9 (2.33%) CISSP
10 8 (2.07%) JNCIA
10 8 (2.07%) JNCIP
10 8 (2.07%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.81%) CCIE
11 7 (1.81%) OCP
11 7 (1.81%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.30%) CCSE
13 5 (1.30%) CCSM
14 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.85%) QA
2 10 (2.59%) SLA
3 6 (1.55%) 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 63 (16.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (11.92%) VMware NSX
3 40 (10.36%) Docker
4 28 (7.25%) vSphere
5 25 (6.48%) Active Directory
6 19 (4.92%) Firmware
7 12 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (1.81%) 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
1 116 (30.05%) Terraform
2 101 (26.17%) Kubernetes
3 95 (24.61%) Ansible
4 39 (10.10%) Grafana
5 35 (9.07%) FortiGate
6 24 (6.22%) Argo
6 24 (6.22%) Prometheus
7 23 (5.96%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.11%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.59%) Istio
9 10 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (2.07%) SCCM
11 7 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (1.55%) Puppet
13 5 (1.30%) HAProxy
14 4 (1.04%) Kibana
15 3 (0.78%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.78%) Stealthwatch
16 2 (0.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 177 (45.85%) F5
2 124 (32.12%) Cisco
3 83 (21.50%) VMware
4 63 (16.32%) Palo Alto
5 47 (12.18%) Splunk
6 42 (10.88%) Juniper
7 31 (8.03%) Arista
8 29 (7.51%) Red Hat
8 29 (7.51%) SolarWinds
9 28 (7.25%) Google
10 27 (6.99%) Microsoft
11 25 (6.48%) Blue Coat
11 25 (6.48%) McAfee
12 23 (5.96%) Aruba
13 22 (5.70%) Extreme Networks
14 21 (5.44%) Fortinet
15 19 (4.92%) NetApp
16 17 (4.40%) Pure Storage
17 16 (4.15%) CheckPoint
18 13 (3.37%) Dynatrace