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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 381 371
Rank change year-on-year +85 -10 -27
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 392 146 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.54% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 89 140
10th Percentile £400 £387 £350
25th Percentile £441 £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.47%
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 42,996 27,186 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.90% 91.05% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,808 17,251 23,716
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -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 2,575 1,262 2,618
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.73
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.82 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +83 356 £525 +1.32% 44
UK excluding London +56 275 £525 +10.53% 38
North of England +21 145 £527 +5.30% 8
North West +22 109 £537 +4.78% 7
Work from Home +7 95 £525 +16.67% 18
London -27 89 £516 -0.07% 17
Midlands -4 68 £500 +66.67% 1
West Midlands -5 68 £500 +66.67% 1
South East -12 63 £520 -7.56% 17
Yorkshire -33 30 £428 -4.89%
East of England -13 24 £525 +4.74% 5
Scotland +2 18 £413 -8.33%
South West -21 14 £663 +23.26% 2
North East -25 12 £650 +33.33% 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 (1.02%) Apache
1 4 (1.02%) Confluence
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.77%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.51%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.51%) 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 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.59%) Azure
2 104 (26.53%) AWS
3 48 (12.24%) GitHub
4 46 (11.73%) GCP
5 31 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (6.89%) OCI
7 23 (5.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 21 (5.36%) OpenShift
9 17 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (4.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.32%) Entra ID
11 13 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (3.32%) SaaS
12 12 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.04%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.04%) PaaS
14 6 (1.53%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.53%) Route 53
14 6 (1.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 190 (48.47%) Firewall
2 178 (45.41%) DNS
3 109 (27.81%) VPN
4 105 (26.79%) BGP
5 103 (26.28%) WAN
6 86 (21.94%) BIG-IP
7 84 (21.43%) Network Security
8 69 (17.60%) LAN
9 62 (15.82%) OSPF
10 57 (14.54%) VXLAN
11 56 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 52 (13.27%) SD-WAN
13 50 (12.76%) Ethernet VPN
14 48 (12.24%) TCP/IP
15 46 (11.73%) DHCP
16 45 (11.48%) Multicast
17 44 (11.22%) SSL
18 40 (10.20%) DMZ
19 39 (9.95%) HTTP
20 34 (8.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (1.79%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.53%) Power BI
3 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (0.77%) Big Data
3 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.77%) HBase
3 3 (0.77%) MySQL
3 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (0.51%) Redis
4 2 (0.51%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.26%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 40 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 35 (8.93%) GitLab
3 23 (5.87%) Fiddler
4 15 (3.83%) JIRA
5 14 (3.57%) Git
6 3 (0.77%) JUnit
6 3 (0.77%) Selenium
6 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.51%) Introscope
7 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
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
General
1 63 (16.07%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.03%) Finance
3 52 (13.27%) Banking
4 37 (9.44%) Investment Banking
5 35 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.55%) Retail
8 9 (2.30%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.53%) Military
10 6 (1.53%) Publishing
10 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Legal
13 3 (0.77%) Advertising
13 3 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.77%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 146 (37.24%) Network Engineer
2 53 (13.52%) Security Engineer
3 51 (13.01%) Senior
4 46 (11.73%) Architect
5 40 (10.20%) Network Security Engineer
6 39 (9.95%) Web Engineer
7 38 (9.69%) Cisco Engineer
7 38 (9.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 36 (9.18%) Data Network Engineer
9 33 (8.42%) Data Engineer
9 33 (8.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 32 (8.16%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 30 (7.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 29 (7.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (5.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (5.10%) Lead
15 18 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 17 (4.34%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 17 (4.34%) IP Network Engineer
16 17 (4.34%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.06%) Kafka
4 9 (2.30%) REST
5 7 (1.79%) Middleware
5 7 (1.79%) Node.js
6 6 (1.53%) CSS
7 5 (1.28%) OAuth
7 5 (1.28%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.28%) OpenID
8 4 (1.02%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.02%) React
8 4 (1.02%) Swagger
9 3 (0.77%) A2A Protocol
9 3 (0.77%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.77%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.77%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (0.77%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.77%) Spring
9 3 (0.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 83 (21.17%) Data Centre
2 63 (16.07%) Cloud Native
3 43 (10.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (7.91%) Clustering
4 31 (7.91%) PKI
5 28 (7.14%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.57%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.06%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (1.79%) IoT
10 6 (1.53%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 78 (19.90%) Windows
2 55 (14.03%) Linux
3 23 (5.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.04%) VMS
6 5 (1.28%) Unix
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (30.61%) CI/CD
2 117 (29.85%) DevOps
3 114 (29.08%) High Availability
4 89 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (18.62%) Observability
7 63 (16.07%) Migration
8 56 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 52 (13.27%) Agile
10 49 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 45 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 43 (10.97%) Zero Trust
13 38 (9.69%) Identity Access Management
14 34 (8.67%) Change Management
14 34 (8.67%) Roadmaps
15 32 (8.16%) Disaster Recovery
16 31 (7.91%) Performance Optimisation
17 30 (7.65%) Infrastructure Automation
17 30 (7.65%) ITIL
18 29 (7.40%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (26.02%) Python
2 51 (13.01%) Bash
3 31 (7.91%) PowerShell
4 25 (6.38%) Java
5 13 (3.32%) SQL
6 10 (2.55%) Bicep
7 5 (1.28%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.77%) Go
8 3 (0.77%) Groovy
8 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.77%) Perl
8 3 (0.77%) Ruby
9 2 (0.51%) Jython
10 1 (0.26%) C#
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 116 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 68 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 67 (17.09%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (7.91%) DV Cleared
5 30 (7.65%) CCNP
6 21 (5.36%) Degree
7 19 (4.85%) CCNA
8 17 (4.34%) Azure Certification
9 15 (3.83%) AWS Certification
10 11 (2.81%) CISSP
11 8 (2.04%) JNCIA
11 8 (2.04%) JNCIP
11 8 (2.04%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.79%) CCIE
12 7 (1.79%) OCP
12 7 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.28%) CCSE
14 5 (1.28%) CCSM
14 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.81%) QA
2 10 (2.55%) 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 61 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (11.22%) VMware NSX
3 35 (8.93%) Docker
4 27 (6.89%) vSphere
5 19 (4.85%) Active Directory
5 19 (4.85%) Firmware
6 13 (3.32%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.51%) NFS
9 2 (0.51%) Postfix
9 2 (0.51%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.51%) Varnish
10 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 120 (30.61%) Terraform
2 98 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 90 (22.96%) Ansible
4 44 (11.22%) Grafana
5 36 (9.18%) FortiGate
6 29 (7.40%) Prometheus
7 25 (6.38%) Argo
8 24 (6.12%) vCenter Server
9 13 (3.32%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.55%) Istio
11 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (2.30%) Puppet
12 7 (1.79%) SCCM
12 7 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.28%) HAProxy
14 4 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.77%) Kustomize
15 3 (0.77%) Stealthwatch
15 3 (0.77%) systemd
15 3 (0.77%) yum
Vendors
1 172 (43.88%) F5
2 129 (32.91%) Cisco
3 80 (20.41%) VMware
4 63 (16.07%) Palo Alto
5 49 (12.50%) Splunk
6 43 (10.97%) Juniper
7 32 (8.16%) Arista
8 31 (7.91%) Microsoft
9 30 (7.65%) Red Hat
9 30 (7.65%) SolarWinds
10 28 (7.14%) Google
11 25 (6.38%) Aruba
12 24 (6.12%) Blue Coat
12 24 (6.12%) McAfee
13 22 (5.61%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (5.61%) Fortinet
14 19 (4.85%) NetApp
15 17 (4.34%) Pure Storage
16 14 (3.57%) CheckPoint
16 14 (3.57%) Dynatrace