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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 398 333
Rank change year-on-year +60 -65 +14
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 387 155 250
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.47% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.52% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 93 148
10th Percentile £400 £327 £371
25th Percentile £450 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £483 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -12.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £650 £685 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +18.33% -10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.38 - -

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 46,293 29,942 32,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,017 18,609 19,950
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,849 1,396
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £66.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -47.67% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 16 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 September 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 +50 343 £530 +2.28% 212
UK excluding London +40 242 £533 +18.33% 101
North of England +19 131 £524 +0.91% 22
London -19 117 £525 -4.55% 126
Work from Home +9 100 £550 +22.22% 80
North West +14 94 £537 +3.42% 14
Midlands -29 55 £469 +17.25% 15
West Midlands -29 54 £469 +17.25% 13
South East -48 31 £559 +1.64% 25
Yorkshire -21 28 £500 - 8
Scotland -2 26 £419 -6.94% 10
East of England -12 25 £550 +9.73% 7
South West -25 19 £675 -10.00% 19
North East -26 15 £500 +2.56% 1
East Midlands -15 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 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 7 (1.81%) Confluence
2 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.03%) Apache
3 4 (1.03%) nginx
4 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 124 (32.04%) Azure
2 109 (28.17%) AWS
3 64 (16.54%) GCP
4 36 (9.30%) GitHub
5 29 (7.49%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (6.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 22 (5.68%) OCI
10 20 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (4.91%) Entra ID
12 16 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (3.36%) SaaS
13 13 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (3.10%) OpenShift
15 11 (2.84%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.84%) Route 53
16 10 (2.58%) Serverless
17 9 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 183 (47.29%) Firewall
2 161 (41.60%) DNS
3 121 (31.27%) VPN
4 88 (22.74%) BGP
5 87 (22.48%) Network Security
6 80 (20.67%) WAN
7 67 (17.31%) TCP/IP
8 60 (15.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 53 (13.70%) BIG-IP
10 52 (13.44%) LAN
11 49 (12.66%) SSL
12 45 (11.63%) OSPF
13 44 (11.37%) SD-WAN
14 42 (10.85%) HTTP
15 38 (9.82%) DHCP
15 38 (9.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 36 (9.30%) VXLAN
17 33 (8.53%) DMZ
18 31 (8.01%) Multicast
18 31 (8.01%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.88%) Relational Database
2 8 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.81%) MongoDB
3 7 (1.81%) Power BI
4 4 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.03%) MySQL
4 4 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.78%) Big Data
5 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.78%) EDRMS
5 3 (0.78%) HBase
5 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.52%) Metadata
6 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (11.89%) GitLab
2 25 (6.46%) Git
3 20 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.10%) Fiddler
4 12 (3.10%) JIRA
5 4 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.78%) JUnit
6 3 (0.78%) Maven
6 3 (0.78%) Selenium
7 2 (0.52%) MSI
7 2 (0.52%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.26%) Ant
8 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.26%) git-flow
8 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.26%) Storybook
General
1 76 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.57%) Finance
3 53 (13.70%) Banking
4 40 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (9.82%) Public Sector
6 28 (7.24%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.13%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.58%) Legal
10 7 (1.81%) Retail
11 6 (1.55%) Publishing
12 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.03%) Automotive
13 4 (1.03%) Law
14 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.78%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.52%) German Language
15 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 124 (32.04%) Network Engineer
2 53 (13.70%) Senior
3 42 (10.85%) Security Engineer
4 41 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 39 (10.08%) Architect
5 39 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (7.75%) Cisco Engineer
7 30 (7.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 29 (7.49%) Network Security Engineer
9 24 (6.20%) Data Engineer
9 24 (6.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (5.94%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 23 (5.94%) Data Network Engineer
10 23 (5.94%) Web Engineer
11 20 (5.17%) Software Engineer
12 17 (4.39%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 16 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (4.13%) Developer
14 14 (3.62%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (32.56%) Terraform
2 20 (5.17%) REST
3 12 (3.10%) Kafka
4 11 (2.84%) ARM Templates
5 9 (2.33%) OAuth
6 8 (2.07%) 802.1X
6 8 (2.07%) CSS
6 8 (2.07%) OpenID
6 8 (2.07%) React
7 7 (1.81%) Node.js
7 7 (1.81%) SAML
8 6 (1.55%) OAuth2
8 6 (1.55%) YAML
9 5 (1.29%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (1.29%) JSON
9 5 (1.29%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.29%) Spring
9 5 (1.29%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.03%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (1.03%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 63 (16.28%) Data Centre
2 59 (15.25%) Cloud Native
3 42 (10.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (8.53%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.13%) PKI
6 14 (3.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 14 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.62%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.58%) Clustering
8 8 (2.07%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.55%) Digital Signage
10 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.03%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 87 (22.48%) Linux
2 60 (15.50%) Windows
3 27 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.33%) Unix
6 8 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.78%) CentOS
8 2 (0.52%) Android
8 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (35.66%) CI/CD
2 135 (34.88%) DevOps
3 121 (31.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (21.45%) High Availability
5 68 (17.57%) Agile
6 67 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 66 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (16.80%) Observability
9 53 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
10 50 (12.92%) Containerisation
10 50 (12.92%) Migration
11 46 (11.89%) Zero Trust
12 43 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 39 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (9.82%) Disaster Recovery
15 36 (9.30%) Infrastructure Automation
15 36 (9.30%) Software Engineering
16 35 (9.04%) Roadmaps
17 31 (8.01%) Change Management
17 31 (8.01%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (28.94%) Python
2 61 (15.76%) PowerShell
3 57 (14.73%) Bash
4 37 (9.56%) Java
5 19 (4.91%) Bicep
6 15 (3.88%) SQL
7 11 (2.84%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.07%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.07%) Perl
9 4 (1.03%) C++
9 4 (1.03%) Go
10 2 (0.52%) C#
10 2 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.26%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) R
11 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 126 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 99 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 50 (12.92%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (7.24%) CCNP
5 25 (6.46%) Azure Certification
6 23 (5.94%) DV Cleared
7 21 (5.43%) CCNA
8 20 (5.17%) Degree
9 19 (4.91%) AWS Certification
10 13 (3.36%) CISSP
11 10 (2.58%) CCIE
11 10 (2.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.78%) CCSE
14 3 (0.78%) CCSM
14 3 (0.78%) VCAP
15 2 (0.52%) CCA
15 2 (0.52%) Citrix Certification
15 2 (0.52%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.58%) QA
2 6 (1.55%) SLA
3 5 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.03%) NCSC
4 4 (1.03%) NIST
5 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.52%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
6 1 (0.26%) PSD2
6 1 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (15.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (10.08%) Docker
3 25 (6.46%) Active Directory
4 21 (5.43%) VMware NSX
4 21 (5.43%) vSphere
5 16 (4.13%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (3.36%) Firmware
7 11 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.07%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.26%) KVM
11 1 (0.26%) NFS
11 1 (0.26%) Postfix
11 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.26%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.26%) Varnish
11 1 (0.26%) zsh
Systems Management
1 101 (26.10%) Kubernetes
2 81 (20.93%) Ansible
3 35 (9.04%) Grafana
4 34 (8.79%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.17%) Istio
6 19 (4.91%) FortiGate
7 17 (4.39%) Progress Chef
8 15 (3.88%) vCenter Server
9 11 (2.84%) Puppet
10 9 (2.33%) Argo
11 7 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.55%) Cisco Prime
12 6 (1.55%) SCCM
13 5 (1.29%) Kustomize
13 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.29%) PowerCLI
14 4 (1.03%) Nagios
14 4 (1.03%) Packer
14 4 (1.03%) systemd
15 3 (0.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 133 (34.37%) F5
2 104 (26.87%) Cisco
3 71 (18.35%) VMware
4 57 (14.73%) Palo Alto
5 46 (11.89%) Microsoft
6 34 (8.79%) Google
7 25 (6.46%) Arista
8 24 (6.20%) Aruba
9 23 (5.94%) Fortinet
10 21 (5.43%) Red Hat
11 19 (4.91%) Splunk
12 17 (4.39%) Dynatrace
12 17 (4.39%) SolarWinds
13 16 (4.13%) NetApp
14 13 (3.36%) Blue Coat
14 13 (3.36%) McAfee
15 12 (3.10%) Juniper
16 10 (2.58%) AppDynamics
16 10 (2.58%) CheckPoint
17 9 (2.33%) Zscaler