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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 377 348
Rank change year-on-year +59 -29 -6
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 331 155 248
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.53% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.58% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 90 153
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £434 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £600
90th Percentile £651 £639 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £471 £475
% change year-on-year +11.41% -0.79% -8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - £45.88
75th Percentile £65.01 - £60.00
90th Percentile £69.20 - £64.50
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 39,566 26,667 37,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.67% 90.82% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,976 17,238 24,315
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,367 1,068 2,431
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.22% -16.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £28.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +49.79% -22.11% +0.14%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +55 303 £525 +5.00% 48
UK excluding London +48 230 £525 +11.41% 42
North of England -5 113 £500 -2.44% 14
North West +9 86 £519 +3.70% 9
London -35 84 £525 -6.04% 16
Work from Home +10 73 £525 +16.67% 24
Midlands +6 72 £515 +78.96% 4
West Midlands +5 71 £515 +78.96% 1
South East -24 55 £525 +23.53% 14
Yorkshire -34 30 £500 +11.11%
East of England -16 18 £525 - 2
Scotland +17 15 £413 -8.33% 4
South West -30 10 £710 +53.51% 2
East Midlands -37 1 - - 3

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 (1.21%) Apache
1 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.91%) Confluence
2 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.91%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.60%) nginx
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) JBoss
4 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 77 (23.26%) Azure
2 58 (17.52%) AWS
3 55 (16.62%) GitHub
4 35 (10.57%) GCP
5 32 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (6.95%) OpenShift
7 18 (5.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (3.93%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (3.32%) Serverless
11 10 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.02%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.72%) Azure AKS
13 8 (2.42%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 167 (50.45%) DNS
2 155 (46.83%) Firewall
3 80 (24.17%) BGP
4 72 (21.75%) VPN
4 72 (21.75%) WAN
5 67 (20.24%) BIG-IP
6 60 (18.13%) Network Security
7 54 (16.31%) LAN
8 46 (13.90%) TCP/IP
9 44 (13.29%) DHCP
9 44 (13.29%) OSPF
10 40 (12.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 40 (12.08%) Multicast
11 39 (11.78%) DMZ
12 38 (11.48%) SSL
13 35 (10.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 35 (10.57%) HTTP
14 33 (9.97%) VXLAN
15 31 (9.37%) Wireshark
16 30 (9.06%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.21%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.30%) MySQL
6 1 (0.30%) Power BI
6 1 (0.30%) Redis
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 48 (14.50%) Jenkins
2 28 (8.46%) Fiddler
3 12 (3.63%) GitLab
4 11 (3.32%) JIRA
5 8 (2.42%) Git
6 4 (1.21%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.91%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.60%) Introscope
9 1 (0.30%) Ant
9 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.30%) Gatling
9 1 (0.30%) JMeter
9 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
9 1 (0.30%) Moq
9 1 (0.30%) NUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Serilog
General
1 62 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.50%) Banking
3 37 (11.18%) Finance
3 37 (11.18%) Investment Banking
4 22 (6.65%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.72%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.11%) Retail
8 7 (2.11%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.81%) Military
10 5 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Legal
11 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.60%) Advertising
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.30%) Billing
13 1 (0.30%) Games
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 124 (37.46%) Network Engineer
2 55 (16.62%) Architect
3 42 (12.69%) Web Engineer
4 40 (12.08%) Security Engineer
5 35 (10.57%) Network Security Engineer
6 32 (9.67%) Data Network Engineer
7 31 (9.37%) Cisco Engineer
7 31 (9.37%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 30 (9.06%) Senior
9 29 (8.76%) Data Engineer
10 28 (8.46%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 22 (6.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 20 (6.04%) Lead
13 19 (5.74%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 19 (5.74%) IP Network Engineer
13 19 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (5.14%) Network Architect
14 17 (5.14%) Network Specialist
15 15 (4.53%) Senior Network Engineer
16 14 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.46%) 802.1X
2 17 (5.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (2.42%) LDAP
4 7 (2.11%) Middleware
4 7 (2.11%) OAuth
4 7 (2.11%) OAuth2
4 7 (2.11%) OpenID
5 6 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.81%) Kafka
5 6 (1.81%) SAML
6 5 (1.51%) Node.js
6 5 (1.51%) OpenAPI
6 5 (1.51%) REST
6 5 (1.51%) Swagger
7 4 (1.21%) VML
8 3 (0.91%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.91%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.91%) JSON
8 3 (0.91%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (0.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 60 (18.13%) Data Centre
2 41 (12.39%) Cloud Native
3 33 (9.97%) PKI
4 28 (8.46%) Clustering
5 25 (7.55%) Management Information System
6 22 (6.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (5.14%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.42%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.11%) IoT
10 6 (1.81%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.51%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.21%) Replication
13 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.91%) SCADA
13 3 (0.91%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (21.45%) Windows
2 40 (12.08%) Linux
3 23 (6.95%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.93%) VMS
5 7 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.51%) CentOS
7 5 (1.51%) Unix
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.60%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (28.10%) High Availability
2 85 (25.68%) DevOps
3 79 (23.87%) CI/CD
4 70 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (20.24%) Migration
6 57 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (15.11%) Observability
8 39 (11.78%) Identity Access Management
9 35 (10.57%) Containerisation
10 32 (9.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (9.06%) Performance Optimisation
12 29 (8.76%) Agile
12 29 (8.76%) Data Loss Prevention
12 29 (8.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 28 (8.46%) Malware Detection/Protection
13 28 (8.46%) RBAC
14 26 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (7.85%) ITIL
15 23 (6.95%) Change Management
15 23 (6.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 72 (21.75%) Python
2 42 (12.69%) Bash
3 31 (9.37%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.42%) Bicep
5 7 (2.11%) SQL
6 4 (1.21%) Java
7 3 (0.91%) C#
7 3 (0.91%) Groovy
7 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.60%) Jython
8 2 (0.60%) Perl
8 2 (0.60%) Ruby
9 1 (0.30%) Go
9 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (27.49%) Security Cleared
2 51 (15.41%) Cisco Certification
3 47 (14.20%) SC Cleared
4 30 (9.06%) DV Cleared
5 28 (8.46%) CCNP
6 13 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.93%) Degree
7 11 (3.32%) CCIE
8 9 (2.72%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.42%) JNCIA
9 8 (2.42%) JNCIP
9 8 (2.42%) JNCIS
10 7 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.11%) OCP
10 7 (2.11%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.81%) CCNA
11 6 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.91%) CCSM
14 2 (0.60%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.72%) SLA
2 4 (1.21%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (1.21%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.91%) NCSC
4 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 63 (19.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (14.50%) VMware NSX
3 30 (9.06%) Active Directory
4 29 (8.76%) Docker
5 25 (7.55%) vSphere
6 21 (6.34%) Firmware
7 9 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.81%) Postfix
10 5 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.21%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.60%) NFS
12 2 (0.60%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.60%) Varnish
13 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.30%) XenApp
13 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 86 (25.98%) Terraform
2 76 (22.96%) Kubernetes
3 73 (22.05%) Ansible
4 35 (10.57%) FortiGate
5 28 (8.46%) Grafana
6 24 (7.25%) Argo
7 21 (6.34%) vCenter Server
8 13 (3.93%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (3.02%) SCCM
9 10 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (2.42%) Istio
12 5 (1.51%) HAProxy
12 5 (1.51%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.21%) Kibana
14 3 (0.91%) Packer
14 3 (0.91%) Puppet
14 3 (0.91%) SCOM
14 3 (0.91%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 157 (47.43%) F5
2 110 (33.23%) Cisco
3 85 (25.68%) VMware
4 44 (13.29%) Splunk
5 41 (12.39%) Juniper
6 34 (10.27%) Microsoft
7 33 (9.97%) Palo Alto
8 29 (8.76%) McAfee
9 28 (8.46%) Blue Coat
10 27 (8.16%) SolarWinds
11 23 (6.95%) Red Hat
12 22 (6.65%) Extreme Networks
13 21 (6.34%) NetApp
14 19 (5.74%) Pure Storage
15 18 (5.44%) Google
16 14 (4.23%) CheckPoint
16 14 (4.23%) Fortinet
17 13 (3.93%) Arista
18 11 (3.32%) Meraki
19 9 (2.72%) Oracle