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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 383 373
Rank change year-on-year +81 -10 -23
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 400 146 223
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.53% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 89 140
10th Percentile £401 £387 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.94%
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 43,238 27,425 37,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 91.06% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,959 17,371 23,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,600 1,291 2,584
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.73% -34.32% +17.29%

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 25 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 25 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 15 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 25 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 +77 364 £525 +1.32% 42
UK excluding London +56 280 £525 +10.53% 31
North of England +23 145 £527 +5.30% 11
North West +30 109 £537 +4.78% 7
Work from Home +11 99 £528 +17.33% 15
London -22 91 £520 +0.66% 13
Midlands -2 72 £500 +66.67% 2
West Midlands -1 71 £500 +66.67% 2
South East -11 66 £525 -6.67% 14
Yorkshire -28 30 £428 -4.89% 3
East of England -6 24 £525 +4.74% 3
Scotland 0 18 £413 -8.33%
South West -37 14 £663 +23.26% 1
North East -25 12 £650 +33.33% 2
East Midlands -17 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 (1.00%) Apache
1 4 (1.00%) Confluence
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.75%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.50%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) JBoss
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 122 (30.50%) Azure
2 110 (27.50%) AWS
3 49 (12.25%) GCP
4 47 (11.75%) GitHub
5 30 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (6.75%) OCI
7 23 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 21 (5.25%) OpenShift
9 19 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (3.50%) SaaS
13 13 (3.25%) Entra ID
14 12 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (2.75%) Route 53
16 9 (2.25%) PaaS
17 8 (2.00%) Amazon S3
18 6 (1.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 6 (1.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 197 (49.25%) Firewall
2 185 (46.25%) DNS
3 114 (28.50%) VPN
4 108 (27.00%) BGP
5 107 (26.75%) WAN
6 87 (21.75%) Network Security
7 84 (21.00%) BIG-IP
8 72 (18.00%) LAN
9 64 (16.00%) OSPF
10 57 (14.25%) VXLAN
11 56 (14.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 54 (13.50%) SD-WAN
13 53 (13.25%) TCP/IP
14 50 (12.50%) DHCP
14 50 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
15 46 (11.50%) Multicast
16 43 (10.75%) SSL
17 41 (10.25%) DMZ
18 38 (9.50%) HTTP
19 34 (8.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.50%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.50%) Power BI
4 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.75%) Big Data
4 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.75%) HBase
4 3 (0.75%) MySQL
4 3 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.75%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.50%) Redis
5 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.25%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 39 (9.75%) Jenkins
2 35 (8.75%) GitLab
3 22 (5.50%) Fiddler
4 15 (3.75%) JIRA
5 14 (3.50%) Git
6 3 (0.75%) JUnit
6 3 (0.75%) Selenium
6 3 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.50%) Introscope
7 2 (0.50%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.25%) Ant
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Moq
8 1 (0.25%) NUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Serilog
General
1 66 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.00%) Finance
3 52 (13.00%) Banking
4 37 (9.25%) Investment Banking
5 36 (9.00%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.50%) Retail
8 8 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.50%) Military
9 6 (1.50%) Publishing
9 6 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.00%) Legal
12 3 (0.75%) Advertising
12 3 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 147 (36.75%) Network Engineer
2 55 (13.75%) Security Engineer
3 53 (13.25%) Architect
4 52 (13.00%) Senior
5 42 (10.50%) Network Security Engineer
6 39 (9.75%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (9.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 39 (9.75%) Web Engineer
7 37 (9.25%) Data Network Engineer
8 34 (8.50%) Data Engineer
9 33 (8.25%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 33 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
10 31 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.75%) Lead
13 19 (4.75%) Network Architect
14 17 (4.25%) IP Network Engineer
14 17 (4.25%) Network Specialist
14 17 (4.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.00%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.00%) Kafka
4 9 (2.25%) REST
5 7 (1.75%) Middleware
5 7 (1.75%) Node.js
6 6 (1.50%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.50%) CSS
7 5 (1.25%) OAuth
7 5 (1.25%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.25%) OpenID
8 4 (1.00%) React
8 4 (1.00%) Swagger
9 3 (0.75%) A2A Protocol
9 3 (0.75%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.75%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.75%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (0.75%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.75%) Spring
9 3 (0.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.25%) Data Centre
2 63 (15.75%) Cloud Native
3 43 (10.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (7.75%) Clustering
4 31 (7.75%) PKI
5 29 (7.25%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 14 (3.50%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.25%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.75%) IoT
10 6 (1.50%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.00%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.75%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 81 (20.25%) Windows
2 56 (14.00%) Linux
3 24 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.75%) VMS
6 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.25%) Unix
7 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (29.75%) CI/CD
2 118 (29.50%) High Availability
3 117 (29.25%) DevOps
4 95 (23.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (18.50%) Observability
7 65 (16.25%) Migration
8 57 (14.25%) Containerisation
9 53 (13.25%) Agile
10 50 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 45 (11.25%) Zero Trust
12 44 (11.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 38 (9.50%) Identity Access Management
14 33 (8.25%) Change Management
14 33 (8.25%) Roadmaps
15 32 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
15 32 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
16 30 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
16 30 (7.50%) ITIL
16 30 (7.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (27.00%) Python
2 56 (14.00%) Bash
3 38 (9.50%) PowerShell
4 25 (6.25%) Java
5 14 (3.50%) SQL
6 10 (2.50%) Bicep
7 5 (1.25%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.75%) Go
8 3 (0.75%) Groovy
8 3 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.75%) Perl
8 3 (0.75%) Ruby
9 2 (0.50%) Jython
10 1 (0.25%) C#
10 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 123 (30.75%) Security Cleared
2 75 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 68 (17.00%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (7.75%) CCNP
4 31 (7.75%) DV Cleared
5 22 (5.50%) Degree
6 19 (4.75%) CCNA
7 16 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.50%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.00%) CISSP
10 8 (2.00%) CCIE
10 8 (2.00%) JNCIA
10 8 (2.00%) JNCIP
10 8 (2.00%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.75%) OCP
11 7 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (1.25%) CCSE
12 5 (1.25%) CCSM
12 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.75%) QA
2 10 (2.50%) SLA
3 6 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.75%) NCSC
5 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 61 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (10.25%) VMware NSX
3 36 (9.00%) Docker
4 27 (6.75%) vSphere
5 19 (4.75%) Firmware
6 18 (4.50%) Active Directory
7 12 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.50%) NFS
10 2 (0.50%) Postfix
10 2 (0.50%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.50%) Varnish
11 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 125 (31.25%) Terraform
2 98 (24.50%) Kubernetes
3 90 (22.50%) Ansible
4 44 (11.00%) Grafana
5 37 (9.25%) FortiGate
6 29 (7.25%) Prometheus
7 25 (6.25%) Argo
8 24 (6.00%) vCenter Server
9 13 (3.25%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.50%) Istio
11 9 (2.25%) Puppet
12 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (1.50%) SCCM
13 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.25%) HAProxy
15 4 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 3 (0.75%) Kustomize
16 3 (0.75%) Stealthwatch
16 3 (0.75%) systemd
16 3 (0.75%) yum
Vendors
1 171 (42.75%) F5
2 131 (32.75%) Cisco
3 78 (19.50%) VMware
4 63 (15.75%) Palo Alto
5 49 (12.25%) Splunk
6 43 (10.75%) Juniper
7 35 (8.75%) Microsoft
8 32 (8.00%) Arista
9 31 (7.75%) Google
10 30 (7.50%) Red Hat
10 30 (7.50%) SolarWinds
11 25 (6.25%) Aruba
12 23 (5.75%) Blue Coat
12 23 (5.75%) Fortinet
12 23 (5.75%) McAfee
13 22 (5.50%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (4.75%) NetApp
15 17 (4.25%) Pure Storage
16 15 (3.75%) Infoblox
17 14 (3.50%) CheckPoint