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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 404 356
Rank change year-on-year +88 -48 -13
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 407 152 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.51% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 92 134
10th Percentile £400 £326 £354
25th Percentile £450 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £684
90th Percentile £650 £686 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £66.50 - -
25th Percentile £80.63 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - -

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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +71 366 £525 +0.48% 170
UK excluding London +74 273 £525 +16.67% 104
North of England +37 146 £515 -0.96% 26
North West +16 108 £532 +2.21% 15
London -24 105 £520 -9.57% 101
Work from Home +12 103 £529 +7.74% 59
Midlands -23 64 £529 +32.25% 7
West Midlands -18 63 £529 +32.25% 6
South East -24 47 £540 -4.04% 19
Yorkshire -14 29 £474 - 11
East of England +3 28 £525 +4.74% 8
Scotland 0 23 £413 -8.33% 21
South West -21 20 £675 -10.00% 18
North East -32 15 £500 +2.56%
East Midlands -14 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.98%) Apache
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.74%) Confluence
3 3 (0.74%) nginx
3 3 (0.74%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 121 (29.73%) Azure
2 109 (26.78%) AWS
3 59 (14.50%) GCP
4 39 (9.58%) GitHub
5 29 (7.13%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (5.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 22 (5.41%) OCI
9 20 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (4.42%) Entra ID
11 17 (4.18%) OpenShift
12 14 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (3.19%) SaaS
14 12 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (2.95%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (2.46%) Route 53
16 10 (2.46%) Serverless
17 9 (2.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 194 (47.67%) Firewall
2 176 (43.24%) DNS
3 132 (32.43%) VPN
4 96 (23.59%) BGP
5 94 (23.10%) WAN
6 91 (22.36%) Network Security
7 66 (16.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 65 (15.97%) BIG-IP
9 62 (15.23%) TCP/IP
10 54 (13.27%) LAN
11 53 (13.02%) SD-WAN
12 46 (11.30%) OSPF
12 46 (11.30%) SSL
13 42 (10.32%) HTTP
13 42 (10.32%) VXLAN
14 41 (10.07%) DMZ
14 41 (10.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 38 (9.34%) Multicast
16 37 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
17 36 (8.85%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.44%) Relational Database
2 7 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.72%) Power BI
3 6 (1.47%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.74%) Big Data
4 3 (0.74%) EDRMS
4 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.74%) HBase
4 3 (0.74%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (11.06%) GitLab
2 25 (6.14%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.16%) Git
4 15 (3.69%) Fiddler
5 11 (2.70%) JIRA
6 3 (0.74%) JUnit
6 3 (0.74%) Maven
6 3 (0.74%) Selenium
6 3 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.49%) Introscope
7 2 (0.49%) MSI
7 2 (0.49%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.25%) Ant
8 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 80 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.44%) Finance
3 60 (14.74%) Banking
4 39 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 38 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (8.35%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.18%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.46%) Legal
9 10 (2.46%) Retail
10 7 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.47%) Publishing
12 4 (0.98%) Law
13 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.49%) German Language
14 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 137 (33.66%) Network Engineer
2 61 (14.99%) Senior
3 51 (12.53%) Security Engineer
4 46 (11.30%) Architect
5 42 (10.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 39 (9.58%) Network Security Engineer
7 37 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
7 37 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 36 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 33 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (7.86%) Data Network Engineer
11 31 (7.62%) Data Engineer
12 30 (7.37%) Web Engineer
13 29 (7.13%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 26 (6.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.67%) Network Architect
16 18 (4.42%) Software Engineer
17 17 (4.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
18 16 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
19 15 (3.69%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (32.43%) Terraform
2 14 (3.44%) REST
3 12 (2.95%) 802.1X
3 12 (2.95%) Kafka
4 11 (2.70%) ARM Templates
5 9 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (1.97%) CSS
7 7 (1.72%) React
8 6 (1.47%) Node.js
8 6 (1.47%) OAuth
9 5 (1.23%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.23%) OpenID
9 5 (1.23%) SAML
9 5 (1.23%) Spring
9 5 (1.23%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.98%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (0.98%) HTML
11 3 (0.74%) JSON
11 3 (0.74%) Middleware
11 3 (0.74%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 68 (16.71%) Data Centre
2 61 (14.99%) Cloud Native
3 49 (12.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (8.60%) Management Information System
5 17 (4.18%) PKI
6 16 (3.93%) Clustering
6 16 (3.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 13 (3.19%) Security Posture
8 12 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.21%) IoT
10 7 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
10 7 (1.72%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.23%) Digital Signage
13 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.98%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 81 (19.90%) Linux
2 60 (14.74%) Windows
3 24 (5.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.93%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.21%) Unix
6 7 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.49%) CentOS
7 2 (0.49%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (32.92%) CI/CD
2 132 (32.43%) DevOps
3 111 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (24.08%) High Availability
5 73 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (16.46%) Agile
6 67 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 63 (15.48%) Observability
8 53 (13.02%) Migration
9 52 (12.78%) Containerisation
9 52 (12.78%) Platform Engineering
10 50 (12.29%) Zero Trust
11 45 (11.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 39 (9.58%) Disaster Recovery
13 38 (9.34%) Infrastructure Automation
14 36 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (8.60%) Roadmaps
16 33 (8.11%) Identity Access Management
17 32 (7.86%) Change Management
17 32 (7.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 114 (28.01%) Python
2 62 (15.23%) Bash
3 54 (13.27%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.35%) Java
5 19 (4.67%) Bicep
6 15 (3.69%) SQL
7 10 (2.46%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.21%) Perl
9 7 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.98%) Go
11 3 (0.74%) C++
12 2 (0.49%) Jython
12 2 (0.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) C#
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 128 (31.45%) Security Cleared
2 97 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 51 (12.53%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (6.39%) CCNP
5 24 (5.90%) Azure Certification
6 22 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 21 (5.16%) Degree
8 17 (4.18%) AWS Certification
8 17 (4.18%) CCNA
9 12 (2.95%) CISSP
10 10 (2.46%) CCIE
10 10 (2.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.23%) CCSE
12 5 (1.23%) CCSM
13 4 (0.98%) OCP
13 4 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.74%) VCAP
15 2 (0.49%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.46%) QA
2 8 (1.97%) SLA
3 5 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.23%) NIST
4 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.49%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.49%) NCSC
4 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.25%) PSD2
5 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 70 (17.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (9.34%) Docker
3 32 (7.86%) VMware NSX
4 22 (5.41%) vSphere
5 20 (4.91%) Active Directory
6 17 (4.18%) Firmware
6 17 (4.18%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.72%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.25%) KVM
11 1 (0.25%) NFS
11 1 (0.25%) Postfix
11 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 102 (25.06%) Kubernetes
2 86 (21.13%) Ansible
3 37 (9.09%) Grafana
4 30 (7.37%) Prometheus
5 22 (5.41%) FortiGate
6 21 (5.16%) Istio
7 20 (4.91%) vCenter Server
8 15 (3.69%) Argo
8 15 (3.69%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.46%) Puppet
10 7 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.47%) SCCM
12 5 (1.23%) Cisco Prime
12 5 (1.23%) Kustomize
12 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.23%) PowerCLI
13 4 (0.98%) Packer
13 4 (0.98%) systemd
14 3 (0.74%) SCOM
14 3 (0.74%) yum
Vendors
1 156 (38.33%) F5
2 118 (28.99%) Cisco
3 78 (19.16%) VMware
4 62 (15.23%) Palo Alto
5 42 (10.32%) Microsoft
6 30 (7.37%) Google
7 28 (6.88%) Arista
8 27 (6.63%) Red Hat
9 26 (6.39%) Splunk
10 25 (6.14%) Aruba
10 25 (6.14%) Fortinet
11 21 (5.16%) Juniper
12 18 (4.42%) NetApp
13 17 (4.18%) SolarWinds
14 16 (3.93%) Blue Coat
14 16 (3.93%) McAfee
15 14 (3.44%) CheckPoint
15 14 (3.44%) Dynatrace
16 12 (2.95%) AppDynamics
16 12 (2.95%) Infoblox