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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 376 373
Rank change year-on-year +77 -3 -36
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 386 143 223
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.53% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 86 140
10th Percentile £400 £386 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £580 £605 £600
90th Percentile £646 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +8.21% +2.70% -7.96%
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 42,574 26,968 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 91.03% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,549 17,103 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,556 1,231 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.01
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +78 348 £520 -0.95% 139
UK excluding London +51 268 £514 +8.21% 144
North of England +21 139 £514 -2.10% 30
North West +23 103 £533 +1.43% 18
Work from Home +26 94 £525 +16.67% 126
London -31 89 £516 -5.55% 32
West Midlands -6 67 £500 +25.00% 6
Midlands -6 67 £500 +25.00% 13
South East -11 60 £491 -10.68% 44
Yorkshire -28 30 £428 -4.89% 7
East of England -9 24 £525 +0.96% 15
Scotland +3 20 £413 -8.33% 12
South West -20 14 £663 +23.26% 12
North East -22 12 £650 +18.18% 5

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 (1.04%) Apache
1 4 (1.04%) Confluence
1 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.26%) CMS
4 1 (0.26%) JBoss
4 1 (0.26%) nginx
4 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (30.05%) Azure
2 103 (26.68%) AWS
3 49 (12.69%) GitHub
4 45 (11.66%) GCP
5 32 (8.29%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (6.99%) OCI
7 24 (6.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 21 (5.44%) OpenShift
9 18 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.37%) Entra ID
11 13 (3.37%) SaaS
12 12 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.33%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.07%) PaaS
15 7 (1.81%) Serverless
16 6 (1.55%) Apigee
16 6 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 182 (47.15%) Firewall
2 176 (45.60%) DNS
3 105 (27.20%) BGP
4 103 (26.68%) VPN
5 96 (24.87%) WAN
6 87 (22.54%) BIG-IP
7 75 (19.43%) Network Security
8 64 (16.58%) LAN
9 62 (16.06%) OSPF
10 57 (14.77%) VXLAN
11 55 (14.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 53 (13.73%) SD-WAN
13 50 (12.95%) Ethernet VPN
14 47 (12.18%) TCP/IP
15 45 (11.66%) DHCP
15 45 (11.66%) Multicast
15 45 (11.66%) SSL
16 40 (10.36%) HTTP
17 39 (10.10%) DMZ
18 36 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (1.81%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.55%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.30%) Power BI
4 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.78%) Big Data
4 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.78%) HBase
4 3 (0.78%) MySQL
4 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.52%) Redis
5 2 (0.52%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.26%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 42 (10.88%) Jenkins
2 36 (9.33%) GitLab
3 24 (6.22%) Fiddler
4 15 (3.89%) JIRA
5 14 (3.63%) Git
6 3 (0.78%) JUnit
6 3 (0.78%) Selenium
6 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.78%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.52%) Introscope
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
8 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 60 (15.54%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.25%) Finance
3 52 (13.47%) Banking
4 37 (9.59%) Investment Banking
5 36 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.59%) Retail
8 9 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.55%) Military
9 6 (1.55%) Publishing
9 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.04%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Advertising
12 3 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.78%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 143 (37.05%) Network Engineer
2 54 (13.99%) Security Engineer
3 51 (13.21%) Senior
4 44 (11.40%) Architect
5 41 (10.62%) Network Security Engineer
6 40 (10.36%) Web Engineer
7 38 (9.84%) Cisco Engineer
7 38 (9.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 36 (9.33%) Data Network Engineer
9 33 (8.55%) Data Engineer
10 32 (8.29%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 32 (8.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 29 (7.51%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (5.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (5.44%) Lead
15 18 (4.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 17 (4.40%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 17 (4.40%) IP Network Engineer
16 17 (4.40%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.25%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.11%) Kafka
4 10 (2.59%) REST
5 8 (2.07%) Node.js
6 7 (1.81%) Middleware
7 6 (1.55%) CSS
8 5 (1.30%) OAuth
8 5 (1.30%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.30%) OpenID
8 5 (1.30%) Swagger
9 4 (1.04%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.04%) OpenAPI
9 4 (1.04%) React
10 3 (0.78%) A2A Protocol
10 3 (0.78%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.78%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (0.78%) SAML
10 3 (0.78%) Spring
10 3 (0.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 84 (21.76%) Data Centre
2 63 (16.32%) Cloud Native
3 43 (11.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (8.03%) Clustering
4 31 (8.03%) PKI
5 27 (6.99%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.89%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.11%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (1.81%) IoT
8 7 (1.81%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.78%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 78 (20.21%) Windows
2 56 (14.51%) Linux
3 23 (5.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.89%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.07%) VMS
6 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.55%) 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
1 121 (31.35%) CI/CD
2 118 (30.57%) DevOps
3 113 (29.27%) High Availability
4 87 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (18.91%) Observability
5 73 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (16.84%) Migration
7 55 (14.25%) Containerisation
8 51 (13.21%) Agile
9 49 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 44 (11.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 43 (11.14%) Zero Trust
12 38 (9.84%) Identity Access Management
13 35 (9.07%) Roadmaps
14 34 (8.81%) Change Management
15 31 (8.03%) Disaster Recovery
15 31 (8.03%) Performance Optimisation
16 30 (7.77%) Platform Engineering
17 29 (7.51%) Infrastructure Automation
17 29 (7.51%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 102 (26.42%) Python
2 50 (12.95%) Bash
3 31 (8.03%) PowerShell
4 25 (6.48%) Java
5 13 (3.37%) SQL
6 11 (2.85%) Bicep
7 5 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.78%) Go
8 3 (0.78%) Groovy
8 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.78%) Perl
8 3 (0.78%) Ruby
9 2 (0.52%) Jython
10 1 (0.26%) C#
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 108 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 61 (15.80%) Cisco Certification
2 61 (15.80%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.03%) CCNP
3 31 (8.03%) DV Cleared
4 21 (5.44%) Degree
5 18 (4.66%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 12 (3.11%) CCNA
8 11 (2.85%) CISSP
9 8 (2.07%) JNCIA
9 8 (2.07%) JNCIP
9 8 (2.07%) JNCIS
10 7 (1.81%) CCIE
10 7 (1.81%) OCP
10 7 (1.81%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.30%) CCSE
12 5 (1.30%) CCSM
12 5 (1.30%) 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 61 (15.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (11.66%) VMware NSX
3 38 (9.84%) Docker
4 28 (7.25%) vSphere
5 20 (5.18%) Active Directory
6 19 (4.92%) Firmware
7 13 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.52%) NFS
10 2 (0.52%) Postfix
10 2 (0.52%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.52%) Varnish
11 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 119 (30.83%) Terraform
2 100 (25.91%) Kubernetes
3 92 (23.83%) Ansible
4 43 (11.14%) Grafana
5 35 (9.07%) FortiGate
6 28 (7.25%) Prometheus
7 25 (6.48%) Argo
8 24 (6.22%) vCenter Server
9 13 (3.37%) Progress Chef
10 11 (2.85%) Istio
11 10 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (2.33%) Puppet
13 8 (2.07%) SCCM
14 7 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (1.30%) HAProxy
16 3 (0.78%) Kustomize
16 3 (0.78%) Stealthwatch
16 3 (0.78%) systemd
16 3 (0.78%) yum
Vendors
1 175 (45.34%) F5
2 123 (31.87%) Cisco
3 81 (20.98%) VMware
4 64 (16.58%) Palo Alto
5 48 (12.44%) Splunk
6 43 (11.14%) Juniper
7 32 (8.29%) Arista
8 30 (7.77%) Red Hat
8 30 (7.77%) SolarWinds
9 28 (7.25%) Microsoft
10 25 (6.48%) Blue Coat
10 25 (6.48%) Google
10 25 (6.48%) McAfee
11 24 (6.22%) Aruba
12 22 (5.70%) Extreme Networks
12 22 (5.70%) Fortinet
13 19 (4.92%) NetApp
14 17 (4.40%) Pure Storage
15 14 (3.63%) CheckPoint
15 14 (3.63%) Dynatrace