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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 400 331
Rank change year-on-year +63 -69 +7
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 390 151 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.46% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.51% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 92 145
10th Percentile £400 £326 £368
25th Percentile £450 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -10.68% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £675
90th Percentile £650 £686 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +18.33% -10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 - -

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 46,309 29,588 32,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.49% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,063 18,372 19,750
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,189 1,818 1,403
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +65 347 £530 +2.25% 175
UK excluding London +39 244 £533 +18.33% 90
North of England +14 132 £524 +0.91% 18
London -17 119 £525 -5.41% 102
Work from Home -5 100 £550 +22.22% 74
North West +11 95 £537 +3.42% 13
Midlands -32 54 £469 +17.25% 15
West Midlands -23 53 £469 +17.25% 13
South East -36 36 £570 +3.64% 20
Yorkshire -24 28 £500 - 5
Scotland -1 25 £419 -6.94% 10
East of England -9 23 £530 +5.74% 6
South West -22 19 £675 -10.00% 16
North East -25 15 £500 +2.56% 1
East Midlands -19 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

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 7 (1.79%) Confluence
2 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.03%) Apache
3 4 (1.03%) nginx
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 125 (32.05%) Azure
2 112 (28.72%) AWS
3 65 (16.67%) GCP
4 36 (9.23%) GitHub
5 29 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (7.18%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (6.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 22 (5.64%) OCI
10 21 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (5.13%) Entra ID
12 17 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (3.33%) OpenShift
14 13 (3.33%) SaaS
15 12 (3.08%) Azure AKS
15 12 (3.08%) Serverless
16 11 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (2.82%) Route 53
17 9 (2.31%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 187 (47.95%) Firewall
2 165 (42.31%) DNS
3 122 (31.28%) VPN
4 90 (23.08%) BGP
5 86 (22.05%) Network Security
6 85 (21.79%) WAN
7 67 (17.18%) TCP/IP
8 62 (15.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 56 (14.36%) BIG-IP
10 52 (13.33%) LAN
11 49 (12.56%) SSL
12 47 (12.05%) SD-WAN
13 46 (11.79%) OSPF
14 42 (10.77%) HTTP
15 40 (10.26%) DHCP
16 39 (10.00%) VXLAN
17 38 (9.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 34 (8.72%) DMZ
19 32 (8.21%) Multicast
19 32 (8.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.59%) Relational Database
2 8 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
3 7 (1.79%) Power BI
4 4 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.03%) MySQL
4 4 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.77%) Big Data
5 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.77%) EDRMS
5 3 (0.77%) HBase
5 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.51%) Metadata
6 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (12.05%) GitLab
2 25 (6.41%) Git
3 21 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.33%) JIRA
5 12 (3.08%) Fiddler
6 4 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.77%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.77%) JUnit
7 3 (0.77%) Maven
7 3 (0.77%) Selenium
8 2 (0.51%) MSI
8 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.26%) Ant
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) git-flow
9 1 (0.26%) Introscope
9 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.26%) Storybook
General
1 78 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.44%) Finance
3 52 (13.33%) Banking
4 39 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.18%) Investment Banking
6 15 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.82%) Legal
9 7 (1.79%) Retail
10 6 (1.54%) Publishing
10 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.03%) Law
12 3 (0.77%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.77%) Automotive
12 3 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.77%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.51%) German Language
13 2 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 123 (31.54%) Network Engineer
2 57 (14.62%) Senior
3 42 (10.77%) Architect
3 42 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 42 (10.77%) Security Engineer
4 39 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (7.95%) Cisco Engineer
6 31 (7.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 29 (7.44%) Network Security Engineer
8 25 (6.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (6.15%) Data Engineer
9 24 (6.15%) Data Network Engineer
10 23 (5.90%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 23 (5.90%) Web Engineer
11 19 (4.87%) Software Engineer
12 17 (4.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 16 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (3.85%) Developer
14 15 (3.85%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (32.82%) Terraform
2 20 (5.13%) REST
3 13 (3.33%) Kafka
4 12 (3.08%) ARM Templates
5 9 (2.31%) 802.1X
6 8 (2.05%) CSS
6 8 (2.05%) OAuth
6 8 (2.05%) OpenID
6 8 (2.05%) React
7 7 (1.79%) Node.js
8 6 (1.54%) OAuth2
8 6 (1.54%) SAML
8 6 (1.54%) YAML
9 5 (1.28%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (1.28%) JSON
9 5 (1.28%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.28%) Spring
9 5 (1.28%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.03%) HTML
10 4 (1.03%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 59 (15.13%) Cloud Native
3 42 (10.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (8.46%) Management Information System
5 17 (4.36%) PKI
6 15 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 14 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.59%) Security Posture
8 12 (3.08%) Clustering
9 8 (2.05%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
10 7 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.54%) Digital Signage
11 6 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) IoT
12 4 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 85 (21.79%) Linux
2 59 (15.13%) Windows
3 26 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (4.87%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.56%) Unix
6 8 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.77%) CentOS
8 2 (0.51%) Android
8 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (35.64%) CI/CD
2 133 (34.10%) DevOps
3 121 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (22.82%) High Availability
5 68 (17.44%) Agile
6 67 (17.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 66 (16.92%) Observability
8 65 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (13.85%) Platform Engineering
10 52 (13.33%) Containerisation
11 50 (12.82%) Migration
12 48 (12.31%) Zero Trust
13 44 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
16 38 (9.74%) Infrastructure Automation
17 36 (9.23%) Roadmaps
18 34 (8.72%) Software Engineering
19 31 (7.95%) Change Management
19 31 (7.95%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (29.49%) Python
2 63 (16.15%) PowerShell
3 57 (14.62%) Bash
4 36 (9.23%) Java
5 19 (4.87%) Bicep
6 15 (3.85%) SQL
7 10 (2.56%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.31%) Perl
9 8 (2.05%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.03%) C++
11 3 (0.77%) Go
12 2 (0.51%) C#
12 2 (0.51%) Ruby
13 1 (0.26%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) Jython
13 1 (0.26%) R
13 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 130 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 102 (26.15%) SC Cleared
3 49 (12.56%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 26 (6.67%) CCNP
5 23 (5.90%) DV Cleared
6 21 (5.38%) Degree
7 19 (4.87%) AWS Certification
7 19 (4.87%) CCNA
8 13 (3.33%) CISSP
9 10 (2.56%) CCIE
9 10 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.77%) CCSE
12 3 (0.77%) CCSM
12 3 (0.77%) VCAP
13 2 (0.51%) CCA
13 2 (0.51%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.51%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.56%) QA
2 6 (1.54%) SLA
3 5 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.28%) NIST
4 4 (1.03%) NCSC
5 2 (0.51%) GDPR
5 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.51%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
6 1 (0.26%) PSD2
6 1 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (15.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (10.00%) Docker
3 24 (6.15%) Active Directory
4 23 (5.90%) VMware NSX
5 19 (4.87%) vSphere
6 16 (4.10%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (3.33%) Firmware
8 11 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (2.05%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.26%) KVM
12 1 (0.26%) NFS
12 1 (0.26%) Postfix
12 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.26%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.26%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 102 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 84 (21.54%) Ansible
3 35 (8.97%) Grafana
4 34 (8.72%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.13%) FortiGate
5 20 (5.13%) Istio
6 17 (4.36%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.85%) vCenter Server
8 11 (2.82%) Puppet
9 9 (2.31%) Argo
10 6 (1.54%) Cisco Prime
10 6 (1.54%) SCCM
10 6 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.28%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.28%) PowerCLI
12 4 (1.03%) Packer
12 4 (1.03%) systemd
13 3 (0.77%) SCOM
13 3 (0.77%) yum
Vendors
1 138 (35.38%) F5
2 105 (26.92%) Cisco
3 71 (18.21%) VMware
4 59 (15.13%) Palo Alto
5 46 (11.79%) Microsoft
6 33 (8.46%) Google
7 27 (6.92%) Arista
8 24 (6.15%) Aruba
9 23 (5.90%) Fortinet
10 22 (5.64%) Red Hat
11 20 (5.13%) Splunk
12 17 (4.36%) Dynatrace
13 16 (4.10%) NetApp
13 16 (4.10%) SolarWinds
14 15 (3.85%) Juniper
15 13 (3.33%) Blue Coat
15 13 (3.33%) McAfee
16 11 (2.82%) AppDynamics
17 10 (2.56%) CheckPoint
18 9 (2.31%) Infoblox