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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 375 363
Rank change year-on-year +77 -12 -22
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 382 146 229
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.51% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.56% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 83 146
10th Percentile £400 £367 £341
25th Percentile £431 £425 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 41,286 26,078 36,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.54% 91.02% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,818 16,706 23,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,472 1,084 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.08 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.84 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.19 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +7.14%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +57 342 £525 -2.33% 73
UK excluding London +65 263 £523 +10.00% 52
North of England +13 136 £523 -0.33% 17
North West +25 102 £538 +2.38% 10
Work from Home +6 94 £525 +16.67% 21
London -19 89 £525 -8.70% 34
West Midlands -6 68 £500 +37.93% 2
Midlands -7 68 £500 +37.93% 4
South East -12 58 £520 -0.95% 17
Yorkshire -34 28 £428 -4.89% 3
East of England -7 23 £525 - 3
Scotland +9 20 £413 -8.33% 5
South West -18 14 £675 +42.11% 6
North East -19 10 £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 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.05%) Apache
2 4 (1.05%) Confluence
3 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.52%) nginx
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) JBoss
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 108 (28.27%) Azure
2 96 (25.13%) AWS
3 51 (13.35%) GitHub
4 44 (11.52%) GCP
5 34 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (6.54%) OCI
7 21 (5.50%) OpenShift
8 20 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (4.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (3.14%) Amazon S3
13 11 (2.88%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.88%) SaaS
14 10 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.36%) Serverless
16 8 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (2.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 183 (47.91%) Firewall
2 174 (45.55%) DNS
3 103 (26.96%) BGP
4 99 (25.92%) VPN
5 93 (24.35%) WAN
6 87 (22.77%) BIG-IP
7 74 (19.37%) Network Security
8 64 (16.75%) LAN
9 60 (15.71%) OSPF
10 56 (14.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 54 (14.14%) VXLAN
12 49 (12.83%) SD-WAN
12 49 (12.83%) TCP/IP
13 48 (12.57%) Ethernet VPN
14 45 (11.78%) Multicast
15 43 (11.26%) DHCP
16 40 (10.47%) DMZ
16 40 (10.47%) HTTP
16 40 (10.47%) SSL
17 37 (9.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.05%) Power BI
4 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.79%) Big Data
4 3 (0.79%) HBase
4 3 (0.79%) MySQL
4 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.79%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.52%) Redis
5 2 (0.52%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 46 (12.04%) Jenkins
2 35 (9.16%) GitLab
3 26 (6.81%) Fiddler
4 16 (4.19%) Git
4 16 (4.19%) JIRA
5 4 (1.05%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.79%) JUnit
6 3 (0.79%) Selenium
6 3 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.52%) Introscope
7 2 (0.52%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.26%) Ant
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Moq
8 1 (0.26%) NUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Serilog
General
1 61 (15.97%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.09%) Banking
3 48 (12.57%) Finance
4 36 (9.42%) Investment Banking
4 36 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.62%) Retail
7 8 (2.09%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.57%) Military
9 5 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.31%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.79%) Advertising
10 3 (0.79%) Legal
11 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.52%) Publishing
12 1 (0.26%) Automotive
12 1 (0.26%) Billing
12 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 147 (38.48%) Network Engineer
2 49 (12.83%) Architect
2 49 (12.83%) Security Engineer
2 49 (12.83%) Senior
3 42 (10.99%) Web Engineer
4 40 (10.47%) Network Security Engineer
5 38 (9.95%) Cisco Engineer
5 38 (9.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 36 (9.42%) Data Network Engineer
7 33 (8.64%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.38%) Cisco Security Engineer
8 32 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (6.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (5.50%) Lead
11 21 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (4.71%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 18 (4.71%) IP Network Engineer
13 17 (4.45%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.33%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.14%) Kafka
4 7 (1.83%) Middleware
4 7 (1.83%) REST
5 6 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.57%) Node.js
6 5 (1.31%) OAuth
6 5 (1.31%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.31%) OpenID
7 4 (1.05%) CSS
7 4 (1.05%) React
7 4 (1.05%) SAML
7 4 (1.05%) Swagger
8 3 (0.79%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.79%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.79%) LDAP
8 3 (0.79%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.79%) Spring
8 3 (0.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.25%) Data Centre
2 53 (13.87%) Cloud Native
3 38 (9.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (9.16%) PKI
5 31 (8.12%) Clustering
6 23 (6.02%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.19%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.09%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.83%) IoT
10 6 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.57%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.05%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 76 (19.90%) Windows
2 49 (12.83%) Linux
3 18 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.40%) VMS
6 7 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.31%) Unix
8 4 (1.05%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (29.06%) CI/CD
1 111 (29.06%) High Availability
2 108 (28.27%) DevOps
3 81 (21.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (17.54%) Migration
6 63 (16.49%) Observability
7 50 (13.09%) Containerisation
8 46 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 44 (11.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 43 (11.26%) Agile
11 38 (9.95%) Identity Access Management
11 38 (9.95%) Zero Trust
12 33 (8.64%) Roadmaps
13 32 (8.38%) Disaster Recovery
14 31 (8.12%) Performance Optimisation
15 30 (7.85%) Change Management
15 30 (7.85%) ITIL
16 29 (7.59%) Network Design
17 27 (7.07%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 90 (23.56%) Python
2 41 (10.73%) Bash
3 26 (6.81%) PowerShell
4 17 (4.45%) Java
5 12 (3.14%) SQL
6 8 (2.09%) Bicep
7 4 (1.05%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.79%) Groovy
8 3 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.79%) Perl
8 3 (0.79%) Ruby
9 2 (0.52%) Go
9 2 (0.52%) Jython
10 1 (0.26%) C#
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 109 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 63 (16.49%) Cisco Certification
3 62 (16.23%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.64%) CCNP
5 32 (8.38%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.45%) Degree
7 15 (3.93%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.40%) CCNA
9 12 (3.14%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.09%) CCIE
10 8 (2.09%) JNCIA
10 8 (2.09%) JNCIP
10 8 (2.09%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.83%) OCP
11 7 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (1.31%) CCSE
12 5 (1.31%) CCSM
12 5 (1.31%) CISSP
13 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.88%) QA
2 9 (2.36%) SLA
3 6 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.79%) NCSC
5 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 62 (16.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (12.30%) VMware NSX
3 36 (9.42%) Docker
4 26 (6.81%) vSphere
5 25 (6.54%) Active Directory
6 20 (5.24%) Firmware
7 10 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.05%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.52%) NFS
11 2 (0.52%) Postfix
11 2 (0.52%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.52%) Varnish
12 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 108 (28.27%) Terraform
2 94 (24.61%) Ansible
2 94 (24.61%) Kubernetes
3 37 (9.69%) Grafana
4 35 (9.16%) FortiGate
5 24 (6.28%) Argo
6 22 (5.76%) Prometheus
7 21 (5.50%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.62%) Istio
9 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (2.09%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.83%) SCCM
12 6 (1.57%) Puppet
13 5 (1.31%) HAProxy
14 4 (1.05%) Kibana
15 3 (0.79%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.79%) Stealthwatch
16 2 (0.52%) Avamar
Vendors
1 180 (47.12%) F5
2 125 (32.72%) Cisco
3 84 (21.99%) VMware
4 62 (16.23%) Palo Alto
5 46 (12.04%) Splunk
6 42 (10.99%) Juniper
7 29 (7.59%) Arista
8 28 (7.33%) SolarWinds
9 27 (7.07%) Blue Coat
9 27 (7.07%) McAfee
9 27 (7.07%) Microsoft
10 24 (6.28%) Google
10 24 (6.28%) Red Hat
11 23 (6.02%) Aruba
12 22 (5.76%) Extreme Networks
13 21 (5.50%) Fortinet
14 20 (5.24%) NetApp
15 17 (4.45%) CheckPoint
15 17 (4.45%) Pure Storage
16 12 (3.14%) Oracle