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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 374 352
Rank change year-on-year +63 -22 -17
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 349 156 245
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.53% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.59% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 88 151
10th Percentile £371 £380 £363
25th Percentile £449 £425 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.04% -12.73%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £641 £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 4
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - £45.88
75th Percentile £65.01 - £51.29
90th Percentile £69.20 - £61.01
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 40,071 26,623 37,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.55% 90.89% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,236 17,168 24,151
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,397 1,072 2,456
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.67 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -1.39%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.84 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.31 £27.64 £37.18
% change year-on-year +56.68% -25.66% +6.23%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +48 318 £525 +3.13% 56
UK excluding London +39 239 £525 +10.53% 49
North of England +7 122 £518 +0.98% 13
North West +16 94 £546 +9.25% 8
London -21 90 £525 -8.70% 19
Work from Home +11 80 £525 +16.67% 14
Midlands -5 74 £515 +78.96% 4
West Midlands +4 73 £515 +78.96% 1
South East -20 54 £539 +2.71% 15
Yorkshire -26 28 £500 +11.11%
East of England -19 19 £525 - 2
Scotland +3 16 £413 -8.33% 12
South West -25 9 £710 +49.47% 4
North East -17 4 - - 5
East Midlands -33 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 (1.15%) Apache
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.86%) Confluence
2 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.86%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.57%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.57%) nginx
3 2 (0.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.29%) CMS
4 1 (0.29%) JBoss
4 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 90 (25.79%) Azure
2 65 (18.62%) AWS
3 57 (16.33%) GitHub
4 36 (10.32%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (10.03%) GCP
6 23 (6.59%) OpenShift
7 16 (4.58%) OCI
7 16 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.87%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.87%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.87%) SaaS
12 9 (2.58%) Azure AKS
12 9 (2.58%) Serverless
13 8 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 171 (49.00%) DNS
2 168 (48.14%) Firewall
3 93 (26.65%) BGP
4 80 (22.92%) BIG-IP
5 79 (22.64%) VPN
5 79 (22.64%) WAN
6 63 (18.05%) Network Security
7 55 (15.76%) LAN
7 55 (15.76%) OSPF
8 49 (14.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 48 (13.75%) TCP/IP
10 44 (12.61%) DHCP
10 44 (12.61%) VXLAN
11 42 (12.03%) Multicast
12 40 (11.46%) DMZ
13 38 (10.89%) Ethernet VPN
13 38 (10.89%) SD-WAN
13 38 (10.89%) SSL
14 37 (10.60%) HTTP
15 35 (10.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
2 3 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (0.86%) Power BI
3 2 (0.57%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.29%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.29%) MySQL
4 1 (0.29%) Redis
4 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 46 (13.18%) Jenkins
2 28 (8.02%) Fiddler
3 18 (5.16%) GitLab
4 11 (3.15%) JIRA
5 8 (2.29%) Git
6 4 (1.15%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.86%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.57%) Introscope
9 1 (0.29%) Ant
9 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.29%) Maven
9 1 (0.29%) Moq
9 1 (0.29%) NUnit
9 1 (0.29%) Serilog
General
1 62 (17.77%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.47%) Banking
3 40 (11.46%) Finance
4 37 (10.60%) Investment Banking
5 29 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.58%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.01%) Military
9 7 (2.01%) Retail
9 7 (2.01%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Advertising
11 3 (0.86%) Legal
11 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.29%) Billing
13 1 (0.29%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (37.82%) Network Engineer
2 54 (15.47%) Architect
3 45 (12.89%) Security Engineer
4 43 (12.32%) Web Engineer
5 38 (10.89%) Network Security Engineer
6 37 (10.60%) Senior
7 35 (10.03%) Cisco Engineer
7 35 (10.03%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 34 (9.74%) Data Network Engineer
9 31 (8.88%) Data Engineer
10 30 (8.60%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 23 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (6.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 20 (5.73%) Lead
13 19 (5.44%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 19 (5.44%) IP Network Engineer
14 18 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (4.87%) Network Architect
15 17 (4.87%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.02%) 802.1X
2 16 (4.58%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (2.29%) LDAP
4 7 (2.01%) Middleware
5 6 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.72%) Kafka
5 6 (1.72%) OAuth
5 6 (1.72%) OAuth2
5 6 (1.72%) OpenID
5 6 (1.72%) REST
6 5 (1.43%) Node.js
6 5 (1.43%) OpenAPI
6 5 (1.43%) SAML
6 5 (1.43%) Swagger
7 4 (1.15%) VML
8 3 (0.86%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.86%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.86%) JSON
8 3 (0.86%) React
9 2 (0.57%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 73 (20.92%) Data Centre
2 45 (12.89%) Cloud Native
3 33 (9.46%) PKI
4 30 (8.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (8.02%) Clustering
6 24 (6.88%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.87%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.29%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.01%) IoT
10 6 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.43%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.15%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.15%) Replication
13 3 (0.86%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.86%) SCADA
13 3 (0.86%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (20.34%) Windows
2 38 (10.89%) Linux
3 22 (6.30%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.72%) VMS
5 7 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.43%) CentOS
7 5 (1.43%) Unix
8 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.57%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.65%) High Availability
2 93 (26.65%) DevOps
3 88 (25.21%) CI/CD
4 71 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (19.77%) Migration
6 66 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (15.19%) Observability
8 40 (11.46%) Containerisation
9 38 (10.89%) Identity Access Management
10 37 (10.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 35 (10.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 32 (9.17%) Agile
12 32 (9.17%) Disaster Recovery
13 30 (8.60%) Performance Optimisation
14 29 (8.31%) Data Loss Prevention
15 28 (8.02%) ITIL
15 28 (8.02%) Malware Detection/Protection
16 27 (7.74%) RBAC
17 26 (7.45%) Change Management
17 26 (7.45%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.92%) Python
2 42 (12.03%) Bash
3 30 (8.60%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.29%) Bicep
5 7 (2.01%) SQL
6 4 (1.15%) Java
7 3 (0.86%) C#
7 3 (0.86%) Groovy
7 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.57%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.57%) Jython
8 2 (0.57%) Perl
8 2 (0.57%) Ruby
9 1 (0.29%) Go
9 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 99 (28.37%) Security Cleared
2 54 (15.47%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.60%) CCNP
4 29 (8.31%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.01%) Degree
6 13 (3.72%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.15%) CCIE
8 9 (2.58%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.29%) JNCIA
9 8 (2.29%) JNCIP
9 8 (2.29%) JNCIS
10 7 (2.01%) CCNA
10 7 (2.01%) OCP
10 7 (2.01%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.86%) CCSM
14 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.58%) SLA
2 5 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (1.43%) QA
3 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.86%) NCSC
4 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 63 (18.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 49 (14.04%) VMware NSX
3 29 (8.31%) Active Directory
4 28 (8.02%) Docker
5 26 (7.45%) vSphere
6 21 (6.02%) Firmware
7 9 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.72%) Postfix
10 5 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.15%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.57%) NFS
12 2 (0.57%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.57%) Varnish
13 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.29%) XenApp
13 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 93 (26.65%) Terraform
2 82 (23.50%) Ansible
3 79 (22.64%) Kubernetes
4 36 (10.32%) FortiGate
5 32 (9.17%) Grafana
6 23 (6.59%) Argo
7 22 (6.30%) vCenter Server
8 17 (4.87%) Prometheus
9 10 (2.87%) SCCM
9 10 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (2.01%) Istio
12 5 (1.43%) HAProxy
12 5 (1.43%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.15%) Kibana
14 3 (0.86%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.86%) Puppet
14 3 (0.86%) SCOM
14 3 (0.86%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 173 (49.57%) F5
2 115 (32.95%) Cisco
3 85 (24.36%) VMware
4 46 (13.18%) Splunk
5 45 (12.89%) Palo Alto
6 41 (11.75%) Juniper
7 33 (9.46%) Microsoft
8 29 (8.31%) McAfee
9 28 (8.02%) Blue Coat
10 27 (7.74%) SolarWinds
11 23 (6.59%) Red Hat
12 22 (6.30%) Extreme Networks
13 21 (6.02%) Arista
13 21 (6.02%) NetApp
14 19 (5.44%) Pure Storage
15 18 (5.16%) Google
16 15 (4.30%) CheckPoint
16 15 (4.30%) Fortinet
17 14 (4.01%) Aruba
18 11 (3.15%) Meraki