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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 382 384
Rank change year-on-year +76 +2 -39
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 391 142 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.53% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 82 139
10th Percentile £400 £385 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +8.32% +2.70% -7.50%
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 42,104 26,621 36,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.94% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,283 16,896 23,594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 2,537 1,167 2,565
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £61.25
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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +68 351 £525 -6.67% 43
UK excluding London +61 267 £515 +8.32% 39
North of England +20 139 £515 -4.28% 7
North West +26 104 £537 -2.36% 5
Work from Home +11 100 £525 +16.67% 18
London -19 93 £525 -8.70% 17
West Midlands -4 69 £500 +25.00% 1
Midlands -7 69 £500 +25.00% 1
South East -10 60 £491 -10.68% 15
Yorkshire -34 29 £428 -4.89% 1
East of England -9 24 £525 - 3
Scotland +4 20 £413 -8.33% 6
South West -21 13 £663 +23.26% 4
North East -14 12 £650 +18.18% 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 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.02%) Apache
2 4 (1.02%) Confluence
3 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.77%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.51%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.51%) nginx
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) JBoss
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 119 (30.43%) Azure
2 105 (26.85%) AWS
3 55 (14.07%) GitHub
4 48 (12.28%) GCP
5 38 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (6.91%) OCI
7 22 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 22 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (5.37%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (3.32%) SaaS
11 12 (3.07%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.07%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (2.30%) Serverless
13 8 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 187 (47.83%) Firewall
2 179 (45.78%) DNS
3 105 (26.85%) BGP
3 105 (26.85%) VPN
4 95 (24.30%) WAN
5 88 (22.51%) BIG-IP
6 72 (18.41%) Network Security
7 64 (16.37%) LAN
8 62 (15.86%) OSPF
9 57 (14.58%) VXLAN
10 55 (14.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 52 (13.30%) SD-WAN
12 50 (12.79%) Ethernet VPN
13 48 (12.28%) TCP/IP
14 46 (11.76%) Multicast
15 45 (11.51%) DHCP
16 43 (11.00%) SSL
17 40 (10.23%) DMZ
17 40 (10.23%) HTTP
18 37 (9.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (1.79%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.28%) Power BI
4 4 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.77%) Big Data
5 3 (0.77%) HBase
5 3 (0.77%) MySQL
5 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.51%) Redis
6 2 (0.51%) 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 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 39 (9.97%) GitLab
3 25 (6.39%) Fiddler
4 16 (4.09%) JIRA
5 14 (3.58%) Git
6 4 (1.02%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.77%) JUnit
7 3 (0.77%) Selenium
7 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.51%) Introscope
8 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.26%) Ant
9 1 (0.26%) Maven
9 1 (0.26%) Moq
9 1 (0.26%) NUnit
9 1 (0.26%) Serilog
General
1 60 (15.35%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.81%) Finance
3 52 (13.30%) Banking
4 37 (9.46%) Investment Banking
5 36 (9.21%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.30%) Retail
8 6 (1.53%) Military
8 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Publishing
11 3 (0.77%) Advertising
11 3 (0.77%) Legal
11 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Automotive
12 1 (0.26%) Games
12 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 144 (36.83%) Network Engineer
2 54 (13.81%) Security Engineer
3 50 (12.79%) Senior
4 49 (12.53%) Architect
5 41 (10.49%) Network Security Engineer
5 41 (10.49%) Web Engineer
6 39 (9.97%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (9.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 37 (9.46%) Data Network Engineer
8 34 (8.70%) Data Engineer
9 33 (8.44%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 32 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 30 (7.67%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (5.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (5.37%) Lead
14 21 (5.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (4.60%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 18 (4.60%) IP Network Engineer
16 17 (4.35%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.91%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.84%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.07%) Kafka
4 8 (2.05%) REST
5 7 (1.79%) Middleware
6 6 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.53%) Node.js
7 5 (1.28%) CSS
8 4 (1.02%) OAuth
8 4 (1.02%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.02%) OpenID
8 4 (1.02%) React
8 4 (1.02%) Swagger
9 3 (0.77%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.77%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.77%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.77%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.77%) SAML
9 3 (0.77%) Spring
9 3 (0.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.99%) Data Centre
2 60 (15.35%) Cloud Native
3 41 (10.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (8.95%) PKI
5 31 (7.93%) Clustering
6 27 (6.91%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.09%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.56%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.05%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.79%) IoT
11 6 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.77%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (20.46%) Windows
2 54 (13.81%) Linux
3 20 (5.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (4.60%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.07%) VMS
6 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.28%) Unix
8 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (31.46%) CI/CD
2 119 (30.43%) DevOps
3 113 (28.90%) High Availability
4 89 (22.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (17.90%) Migration
6 70 (17.90%) Observability
7 52 (13.30%) Containerisation
8 49 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 48 (12.28%) Agile
10 47 (12.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 42 (10.74%) Zero Trust
12 38 (9.72%) Identity Access Management
13 34 (8.70%) Roadmaps
14 33 (8.44%) Change Management
15 31 (7.93%) ITIL
15 31 (7.93%) Performance Optimisation
16 30 (7.67%) Disaster Recovery
17 28 (7.16%) Infrastructure Automation
18 27 (6.91%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (24.30%) Python
2 46 (11.76%) Bash
3 30 (7.67%) PowerShell
4 22 (5.63%) Java
5 13 (3.32%) SQL
6 9 (2.30%) Bicep
7 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.77%) Groovy
8 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.77%) Perl
8 3 (0.77%) Ruby
9 2 (0.51%) Go
9 2 (0.51%) Jython
10 1 (0.26%) C#
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 113 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 66 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 61 (15.60%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (7.93%) CCNP
4 31 (7.93%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.12%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.12%) Degree
6 16 (4.09%) AWS Certification
7 12 (3.07%) CCNA
8 9 (2.30%) CISSP
9 8 (2.05%) JNCIA
9 8 (2.05%) JNCIP
9 8 (2.05%) JNCIS
10 7 (1.79%) CCIE
10 7 (1.79%) OCP
10 7 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.28%) CCSE
12 5 (1.28%) CCSM
12 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.81%) QA
2 10 (2.56%) SLA
3 6 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) NCSC
5 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 65 (16.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 40 (10.23%) Docker
4 29 (7.42%) vSphere
5 25 (6.39%) Active Directory
6 20 (5.12%) Firmware
7 13 (3.32%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.51%) NFS
10 2 (0.51%) Postfix
10 2 (0.51%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.51%) Varnish
11 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (30.18%) Terraform
2 102 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 96 (24.55%) Ansible
4 40 (10.23%) Grafana
5 33 (8.44%) FortiGate
6 25 (6.39%) Prometheus
7 24 (6.14%) Argo
7 24 (6.14%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.07%) Progress Chef
9 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (2.56%) Istio
11 9 (2.30%) SCCM
12 7 (1.79%) Puppet
12 7 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (1.28%) HAProxy
15 4 (1.02%) Kibana
16 3 (0.77%) Karpenter
16 3 (0.77%) Stealthwatch
17 2 (0.51%) CASB
Vendors
1 179 (45.78%) F5
2 125 (31.97%) Cisco
3 85 (21.74%) VMware
4 63 (16.11%) Palo Alto
5 47 (12.02%) Splunk
6 43 (11.00%) Juniper
7 32 (8.18%) Arista
8 29 (7.42%) Red Hat
8 29 (7.42%) SolarWinds
9 28 (7.16%) Google
9 28 (7.16%) Microsoft
10 26 (6.65%) Blue Coat
10 26 (6.65%) McAfee
11 24 (6.14%) Aruba
12 22 (5.63%) Extreme Networks
13 21 (5.37%) Fortinet
14 20 (5.12%) NetApp
15 17 (4.35%) Pure Storage
16 16 (4.09%) CheckPoint
17 13 (3.32%) Dynatrace