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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 378 350
Rank change year-on-year +75 -28 -10
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 371 147 231
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.51% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.56% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 84 146
10th Percentile £380 £370 £341
25th Percentile £445 £425 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
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 40,767 26,234 36,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 91.05% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,562 16,839 23,562
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.66% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,067 2,440
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.36 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.95 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +67 334 £525 - 52
UK excluding London +42 259 £525 +10.53% 44
North of England +13 135 £529 +0.67% 13
North West +18 102 £540 +2.86% 8
Work from Home +20 89 £525 +16.67% 15
London -12 86 £525 -8.70% 21
West Midlands -1 67 £500 +66.67% 2
Midlands -13 67 £500 +66.67% 4
South East -13 57 £523 -0.48% 15
Yorkshire -30 26 £428 -4.89% 1
East of England -6 23 £525 - 3
Scotland +8 19 £413 -8.33% 4
South West -23 13 £675 +38.46% 5
North East -20 9 £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 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.08%) Apache
3 3 (0.81%) Confluence
3 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.81%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.54%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.54%) nginx
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 100 (26.95%) Azure
2 83 (22.37%) AWS
3 51 (13.75%) GitHub
4 40 (10.78%) GCP
5 33 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (6.20%) OCI
7 21 (5.66%) OpenShift
8 17 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (4.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 13 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.96%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.96%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (2.43%) SaaS
13 9 (2.43%) Serverless
14 8 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (48.52%) Firewall
2 169 (45.55%) DNS
3 101 (27.22%) BGP
4 98 (26.42%) VPN
5 93 (25.07%) WAN
6 87 (23.45%) BIG-IP
7 71 (19.14%) Network Security
8 63 (16.98%) LAN
9 59 (15.90%) OSPF
10 55 (14.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 53 (14.29%) VXLAN
12 48 (12.94%) TCP/IP
13 47 (12.67%) Ethernet VPN
14 45 (12.13%) Multicast
14 45 (12.13%) SD-WAN
15 42 (11.32%) DHCP
16 40 (10.78%) DMZ
16 40 (10.78%) HTTP
17 39 (10.51%) SSL
18 37 (9.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.62%) Relational Database
2 5 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.08%) Power BI
4 3 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.54%) Big Data
5 2 (0.54%) HBase
5 2 (0.54%) MySQL
5 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.54%) Redis
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.27%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 45 (12.13%) Jenkins
2 29 (7.82%) GitLab
3 27 (7.28%) Fiddler
4 14 (3.77%) JIRA
5 13 (3.50%) Git
6 4 (1.08%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.54%) Introscope
8 2 (0.54%) JUnit
8 2 (0.54%) Selenium
8 2 (0.54%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.27%) Ant
9 1 (0.27%) Maven
9 1 (0.27%) Moq
9 1 (0.27%) NUnit
9 1 (0.27%) Serilog
General
1 60 (16.17%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.21%) Banking
3 44 (11.86%) Finance
4 36 (9.70%) Investment Banking
5 35 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.70%) Retail
8 7 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.89%) Military
9 5 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.81%) Advertising
10 3 (0.81%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.54%) Publishing
12 1 (0.27%) Automotive
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 147 (39.62%) Network Engineer
2 49 (13.21%) Architect
3 47 (12.67%) Security Engineer
3 47 (12.67%) Senior
4 43 (11.59%) Web Engineer
5 40 (10.78%) Network Security Engineer
6 38 (10.24%) Cisco Engineer
6 38 (10.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 36 (9.70%) Data Network Engineer
8 33 (8.89%) Data Engineer
9 32 (8.63%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 30 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (5.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 21 (5.66%) Lead
14 20 (5.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (4.85%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 18 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.85%) IP Network Engineer
16 17 (4.58%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.09%) 802.1X
2 14 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (2.43%) Kafka
4 7 (1.89%) Middleware
4 7 (1.89%) REST
5 6 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.62%) Node.js
6 4 (1.08%) OAuth
6 4 (1.08%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.08%) OpenID
6 4 (1.08%) Swagger
7 3 (0.81%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.81%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.81%) CSS
7 3 (0.81%) JSON
7 3 (0.81%) LDAP
7 3 (0.81%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.81%) React
7 3 (0.81%) SAML
7 3 (0.81%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (22.10%) Data Centre
2 45 (12.13%) Cloud Native
3 35 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (9.16%) PKI
5 30 (8.09%) Clustering
6 21 (5.66%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.31%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.16%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.89%) IoT
10 6 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.81%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (18.87%) Windows
2 41 (11.05%) Linux
3 17 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.50%) VMS
5 10 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.35%) Unix
8 3 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.54%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (28.03%) High Availability
2 101 (27.22%) CI/CD
3 98 (26.42%) DevOps
4 75 (20.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (18.06%) Migration
6 58 (15.63%) Observability
7 45 (12.13%) Containerisation
8 43 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 43 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 40 (10.78%) Agile
10 38 (10.24%) Identity Access Management
11 35 (9.43%) Zero Trust
12 32 (8.63%) Disaster Recovery
13 30 (8.09%) Performance Optimisation
14 29 (7.82%) ITIL
15 28 (7.55%) Data Loss Prevention
15 28 (7.55%) Network Design
15 28 (7.55%) Roadmaps
16 27 (7.28%) Malware Detection/Protection
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.64%) Python
2 36 (9.70%) Bash
3 22 (5.93%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.50%) Java
5 9 (2.43%) SQL
6 8 (2.16%) Bicep
7 4 (1.08%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.81%) Groovy
9 2 (0.54%) Go
9 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.54%) Jython
9 2 (0.54%) Perl
9 2 (0.54%) Ruby
10 1 (0.27%) C#
10 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 108 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.25%) SC Cleared
3 62 (16.71%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (8.63%) CCNP
5 31 (8.36%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.77%) Degree
7 13 (3.50%) CCNA
8 12 (3.23%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.43%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.43%) CCIE
10 8 (2.16%) JNCIA
10 8 (2.16%) JNCIP
10 8 (2.16%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.89%) OCP
11 7 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.08%) CCSE
12 4 (1.08%) CCSM
12 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.43%) QA
2 8 (2.16%) SLA
3 6 (1.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.81%) NCSC
5 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.54%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 61 (16.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (12.94%) VMware NSX
3 30 (8.09%) Docker
4 26 (7.01%) vSphere
5 25 (6.74%) Active Directory
6 20 (5.39%) Firmware
7 9 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.08%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.54%) NFS
11 2 (0.54%) Postfix
11 2 (0.54%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.54%) Varnish
12 1 (0.27%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 100 (26.95%) Terraform
2 91 (24.53%) Ansible
3 85 (22.91%) Kubernetes
4 36 (9.70%) Grafana
5 35 (9.43%) FortiGate
6 23 (6.20%) Argo
7 21 (5.66%) Prometheus
7 21 (5.66%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (1.89%) Istio
10 7 (1.89%) SCCM
11 5 (1.35%) HAProxy
11 5 (1.35%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.08%) Kibana
12 4 (1.08%) Puppet
13 3 (0.81%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.81%) Stealthwatch
14 2 (0.54%) Cilium
Vendors
1 180 (48.52%) F5
2 125 (33.69%) Cisco
3 84 (22.64%) VMware
4 60 (16.17%) Palo Alto
5 46 (12.40%) Splunk
6 42 (11.32%) Juniper
7 28 (7.55%) Arista
7 28 (7.55%) Blue Coat
7 28 (7.55%) McAfee
7 28 (7.55%) SolarWinds
8 27 (7.28%) Microsoft
9 22 (5.93%) Aruba
9 22 (5.93%) Extreme Networks
10 21 (5.66%) Red Hat
11 20 (5.39%) Google
11 20 (5.39%) NetApp
12 19 (5.12%) Fortinet
13 17 (4.58%) CheckPoint
13 17 (4.58%) Pure Storage
14 12 (3.23%) Dynatrace