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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 382 375
Rank change year-on-year +78 -7 -29
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 401 153 228
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.50% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.55% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 92 143
10th Percentile £401 £385 £353
25th Percentile £447 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £649 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -6.86%
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 43,674 27,949 36,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 90.88% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,163 17,650 23,450
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,623 1,373 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.86 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +83 365 £525 +1.32% 75
UK excluding London +73 285 £525 +16.67% 59
North of England +27 146 £525 - 12
North West +30 109 £537 -2.36% 8
Work from Home +6 98 £528 +17.33% 29
London -31 87 £516 +0.24% 25
Midlands +2 74 £500 +25.00% 3
West Midlands +7 73 £500 +25.00% 3
South East -10 68 £527 -6.27% 22
Yorkshire -22 31 £464 +3.11% 3
East of England -1 24 £525 +4.74% 15
Scotland +5 18 £413 -8.33% 3
South West -23 14 £663 +23.26% 2
North East -22 12 £650 +33.33% 2
East Midlands -12 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
1 118 (29.43%) Azure
2 110 (27.43%) AWS
3 47 (11.72%) GCP
4 43 (10.72%) GitHub
5 27 (6.73%) OCI
6 26 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (5.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 21 (5.24%) OpenShift
9 19 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (3.49%) SaaS
13 13 (3.24%) Entra ID
14 12 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (2.74%) Route 53
16 9 (2.24%) PaaS
17 8 (2.00%) Amazon S3
18 6 (1.50%) Power Automate
18 6 (1.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 195 (48.63%) Firewall
2 188 (46.88%) DNS
3 116 (28.93%) VPN
4 108 (26.93%) BGP
5 107 (26.68%) WAN
6 86 (21.45%) Network Security
7 84 (20.95%) BIG-IP
8 72 (17.96%) LAN
9 64 (15.96%) OSPF
10 57 (14.21%) VXLAN
11 56 (13.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 55 (13.72%) TCP/IP
13 54 (13.47%) SD-WAN
14 52 (12.97%) DHCP
15 50 (12.47%) Ethernet VPN
16 46 (11.47%) Multicast
17 45 (11.22%) SSL
18 41 (10.22%) DMZ
19 39 (9.73%) HTTP
20 34 (8.48%) 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 36 (8.98%) Jenkins
2 35 (8.73%) GitLab
3 22 (5.49%) Fiddler
4 15 (3.74%) JIRA
5 14 (3.49%) 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 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.97%) Finance
3 52 (12.97%) Banking
4 37 (9.23%) Investment Banking
5 36 (8.98%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.49%) 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 (36.66%) Network Engineer
2 57 (14.21%) Architect
3 55 (13.72%) Security Engineer
4 52 (12.97%) Senior
5 42 (10.47%) Network Security Engineer
6 39 (9.73%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (9.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 39 (9.73%) Web Engineer
7 37 (9.23%) Data Network Engineer
8 34 (8.48%) Data Engineer
9 33 (8.23%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 31 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 30 (7.48%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (5.74%) Network Architect
13 22 (5.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (4.74%) Lead
15 17 (4.24%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 17 (4.24%) IP Network Engineer
15 17 (4.24%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.98%) 802.1X
2 16 (3.99%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (2.99%) Kafka
4 9 (2.24%) REST
5 8 (2.00%) Node.js
6 7 (1.75%) Middleware
7 6 (1.50%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.50%) CSS
8 5 (1.25%) OAuth
8 5 (1.25%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.25%) OpenID
9 4 (1.00%) React
9 4 (1.00%) Swagger
10 3 (0.75%) A2A Protocol
10 3 (0.75%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.75%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.75%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (0.75%) ModSecurity
10 3 (0.75%) OpenAPI
10 3 (0.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.20%) Data Centre
2 61 (15.21%) Cloud Native
3 43 (10.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (7.73%) Clustering
4 31 (7.73%) PKI
5 29 (7.23%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 13 (3.24%) Security Posture
8 12 (2.99%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.75%) IoT
10 6 (1.50%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.75%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 81 (20.20%) Windows
2 56 (13.97%) Linux
3 24 (5.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.25%) Unix
6 4 (1.00%) VMS
6 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (29.93%) High Availability
2 115 (28.68%) CI/CD
3 114 (28.43%) DevOps
4 91 (22.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (18.70%) Observability
7 61 (15.21%) Migration
8 56 (13.97%) Containerisation
9 52 (12.97%) Agile
10 50 (12.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 47 (11.72%) Zero Trust
12 41 (10.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 38 (9.48%) Identity Access Management
14 34 (8.48%) Performance Optimisation
15 33 (8.23%) Change Management
15 33 (8.23%) Roadmaps
16 32 (7.98%) Disaster Recovery
17 31 (7.73%) Platform Engineering
18 30 (7.48%) Infrastructure Automation
18 30 (7.48%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 109 (27.18%) Python
2 56 (13.97%) Bash
3 38 (9.48%) PowerShell
4 26 (6.48%) Java
5 14 (3.49%) SQL
6 10 (2.49%) 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
1 124 (30.92%) Security Cleared
2 74 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 68 (16.96%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (8.23%) DV Cleared
5 31 (7.73%) CCNP
6 22 (5.49%) Degree
7 19 (4.74%) CCNA
8 15 (3.74%) Azure Certification
9 13 (3.24%) AWS Certification
10 12 (2.99%) CISSP
11 8 (2.00%) CCIE
11 8 (2.00%) JNCIA
11 8 (2.00%) JNCIP
11 8 (2.00%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.75%) OCP
12 7 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (1.25%) CCSE
13 5 (1.25%) CCSM
13 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.74%) QA
2 10 (2.49%) SLA
3 6 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.25%) NCSC
5 4 (1.00%) NIST
6 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.50%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) GDPR
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 61 (15.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (10.22%) VMware NSX
3 37 (9.23%) Docker
4 27 (6.73%) vSphere
5 19 (4.74%) Firmware
6 18 (4.49%) Active Directory
7 12 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.49%) 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
1 121 (30.17%) Terraform
2 95 (23.69%) Kubernetes
3 86 (21.45%) Ansible
4 45 (11.22%) Grafana
5 37 (9.23%) FortiGate
6 29 (7.23%) Prometheus
7 25 (6.23%) Argo
8 24 (5.99%) vCenter Server
9 13 (3.24%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.49%) Istio
11 9 (2.24%) 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 (42.64%) F5
2 131 (32.67%) Cisco
3 78 (19.45%) VMware
4 63 (15.71%) Palo Alto
5 49 (12.22%) Splunk
6 43 (10.72%) Juniper
7 33 (8.23%) Microsoft
8 32 (7.98%) Arista
9 30 (7.48%) Red Hat
9 30 (7.48%) SolarWinds
10 28 (6.98%) Google
11 25 (6.23%) Aruba
12 23 (5.74%) Blue Coat
12 23 (5.74%) Fortinet
12 23 (5.74%) McAfee
13 22 (5.49%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (4.74%) NetApp
15 17 (4.24%) Pure Storage
16 15 (3.74%) Infoblox
17 14 (3.49%) CheckPoint