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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 366 343
Rank change year-on-year +61 -23 0
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 356 153 249
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.52% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.57% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 84 158
10th Percentile £368 £370 £329
25th Percentile £439 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -0.52% -13.18%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.94%
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 40,197 26,741 37,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.94% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,242 17,210 23,886
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,094 2,440
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.44 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.13 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.52% -21.23% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -28.95% +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 11 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 11 May 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 11 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 +50 322 £525 +5.00% 73
UK excluding London +51 246 £525 +10.53% 66
North of England +9 127 £528 +5.60% 24
North West +13 98 £556 +11.25% 15
London -9 88 £525 -3.95% 23
Work from Home +15 87 £525 +16.67% 24
Midlands 0 75 £515 +78.96% 6
West Midlands +5 74 £515 +78.96% 2
South East -17 55 £525 +10.53% 20
Yorkshire -30 26 £464 +3.11% 2
East of England -12 19 £525 - 4
Scotland +15 17 £413 -8.33% 9
South West -33 9 £708 +45.13% 3
North East -12 6 £650 +18.18% 7
East Midlands -33 1 - - 4

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 (1.12%) Apache
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.84%) Confluence
2 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.84%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.56%) nginx
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.28%) CMS
4 1 (0.28%) JBoss
4 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 98 (27.53%) Azure
2 70 (19.66%) AWS
3 57 (16.01%) GitHub
4 38 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (9.83%) GCP
6 22 (6.18%) OpenShift
7 19 (5.34%) OCI
8 16 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 12 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (3.09%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.09%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.81%) SaaS
14 9 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (2.53%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.53%) Serverless
15 8 (2.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 170 (47.75%) Firewall
2 169 (47.47%) DNS
3 96 (26.97%) BGP
4 84 (23.60%) VPN
5 83 (23.31%) BIG-IP
6 81 (22.75%) WAN
7 63 (17.70%) Network Security
8 56 (15.73%) OSPF
9 55 (15.45%) LAN
10 51 (14.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 48 (13.48%) TCP/IP
12 47 (13.20%) VXLAN
13 44 (12.36%) Multicast
14 43 (12.08%) DHCP
15 41 (11.52%) DMZ
15 41 (11.52%) Ethernet VPN
15 41 (11.52%) SD-WAN
16 38 (10.67%) SSL
16 38 (10.67%) Wi-Fi
17 37 (10.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.12%) Power BI
2 3 (0.84%) MongoDB
2 3 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.56%) Redis
3 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.28%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.28%) Metadata
4 1 (0.28%) MySQL
4 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 44 (12.36%) Jenkins
2 28 (7.87%) Fiddler
3 22 (6.18%) GitLab
4 11 (3.09%) JIRA
5 9 (2.53%) Git
6 4 (1.12%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.84%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.56%) Introscope
9 1 (0.28%) Ant
9 1 (0.28%) Maven
9 1 (0.28%) Moq
9 1 (0.28%) NUnit
9 1 (0.28%) Serilog
General
1 61 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.48%) Banking
3 39 (10.96%) Finance
4 37 (10.39%) Investment Banking
5 32 (8.99%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.53%) Retail
8 7 (1.97%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.97%) Military
8 7 (1.97%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.84%) Advertising
11 3 (0.84%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 136 (38.20%) Network Engineer
2 53 (14.89%) Architect
3 46 (12.92%) Security Engineer
4 44 (12.36%) Web Engineer
5 41 (11.52%) Senior
6 39 (10.96%) Network Security Engineer
7 37 (10.39%) Cisco Engineer
7 37 (10.39%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 36 (10.11%) Data Network Engineer
9 33 (9.27%) Data Engineer
10 32 (8.99%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 26 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (6.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 21 (5.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (5.90%) Lead
14 19 (5.34%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 19 (5.34%) IP Network Engineer
15 17 (4.78%) Network Architect
15 17 (4.78%) Network Specialist
16 16 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.87%) 802.1X
2 15 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (2.25%) LDAP
4 7 (1.97%) Middleware
5 6 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.69%) Kafka
5 6 (1.69%) REST
6 5 (1.40%) Node.js
6 5 (1.40%) OAuth
6 5 (1.40%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.40%) OpenAPI
6 5 (1.40%) OpenID
6 5 (1.40%) Swagger
7 4 (1.12%) SAML
7 4 (1.12%) VML
8 3 (0.84%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.84%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.84%) JSON
8 3 (0.84%) React
9 2 (0.56%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.91%) Data Centre
2 45 (12.64%) Cloud Native
3 33 (9.27%) PKI
4 32 (8.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (7.87%) Clustering
6 23 (6.46%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.78%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.25%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.97%) IoT
10 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.40%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.84%) Replication
13 3 (0.84%) SCADA
13 3 (0.84%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (19.94%) Windows
2 40 (11.24%) Linux
3 20 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.65%) VMS
5 7 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.40%) CentOS
7 5 (1.40%) Unix
8 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.56%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (28.93%) High Availability
2 97 (27.25%) DevOps
3 94 (26.40%) CI/CD
4 71 (19.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (19.66%) Migration
6 55 (15.45%) Observability
7 41 (11.52%) Containerisation
8 40 (11.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 38 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 37 (10.39%) Identity Access Management
11 34 (9.55%) Agile
12 32 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (8.71%) Performance Optimisation
14 30 (8.43%) ITIL
15 29 (8.15%) Data Loss Prevention
15 29 (8.15%) Zero Trust
16 28 (7.87%) Malware Detection/Protection
16 28 (7.87%) Network Design
16 28 (7.87%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 82 (23.03%) Python
2 42 (11.80%) Bash
3 28 (7.87%) PowerShell
4 9 (2.53%) Bicep
5 8 (2.25%) SQL
6 4 (1.12%) Java
6 4 (1.12%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.84%) C#
7 3 (0.84%) Groovy
8 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.56%) Jython
8 2 (0.56%) Perl
8 2 (0.56%) Ruby
9 1 (0.28%) Go
9 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 101 (28.37%) Security Cleared
2 57 (16.01%) SC Cleared
3 56 (15.73%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (8.99%) CCNP
5 28 (7.87%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.93%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.65%) Degree
8 11 (3.09%) CCIE
9 9 (2.53%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.25%) JNCIA
10 8 (2.25%) JNCIP
10 8 (2.25%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.97%) CCNA
11 7 (1.97%) OCP
11 7 (1.97%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.12%) CCSM
15 3 (0.84%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.25%) SLA
2 6 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (1.69%) QA
3 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.84%) NCSC
4 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 63 (17.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (13.48%) VMware NSX
3 29 (8.15%) Docker
4 27 (7.58%) Active Directory
5 25 (7.02%) vSphere
6 21 (5.90%) Firmware
7 9 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.69%) Postfix
10 5 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.56%) NFS
12 2 (0.56%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.56%) Varnish
13 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.28%) XenApp
13 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 97 (27.25%) Terraform
2 85 (23.88%) Ansible
3 80 (22.47%) Kubernetes
4 34 (9.55%) FortiGate
5 33 (9.27%) Grafana
6 23 (6.46%) Argo
7 21 (5.90%) vCenter Server
8 18 (5.06%) Prometheus
9 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (2.53%) SCCM
9 9 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.97%) Istio
12 5 (1.40%) HAProxy
12 5 (1.40%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.12%) Kibana
14 3 (0.84%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.84%) Puppet
14 3 (0.84%) Stealthwatch
15 2 (0.56%) CASB
Vendors
1 177 (49.72%) F5
2 118 (33.15%) Cisco
3 84 (23.60%) VMware
4 50 (14.04%) Palo Alto
5 45 (12.64%) Splunk
6 41 (11.52%) Juniper
7 31 (8.71%) Microsoft
8 29 (8.15%) McAfee
9 28 (7.87%) Blue Coat
10 27 (7.58%) SolarWinds
11 24 (6.74%) Arista
12 22 (6.18%) Extreme Networks
12 22 (6.18%) Red Hat
13 21 (5.90%) NetApp
14 18 (5.06%) Aruba
14 18 (5.06%) Google
14 18 (5.06%) Pure Storage
15 16 (4.49%) CheckPoint
15 16 (4.49%) Fortinet
16 12 (3.37%) Dynatrace