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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 389 334
Rank change year-on-year +84 -55 +22
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 418 157 235
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.53% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 94 143
10th Percentile £401 £328 £353
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £589 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £669 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £466 £400
% change year-on-year +12.60% +16.56% -25.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £54.64 - -
25th Percentile £67.08 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - -

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 45,292 29,826 33,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.48% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,883 18,657 21,289
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £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 2,827 1,696 1,836
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.51 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.84 £42.50
% change year-on-year +92.47% -46.26% +17.24%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +83 378 £525 +0.96% 183
UK excluding London +70 286 £525 +12.60% 100
North of England +32 147 £529 +1.15% 39
North West +21 108 £537 +2.29% 20
London -18 104 £520 -7.56% 94
Work from Home +3 99 £529 +17.44% 60
South East -11 68 £527 -4.14% 18
Midlands -14 64 £529 +32.25% 6
West Midlands -7 63 £529 +32.25% 6
Yorkshire -17 31 £428 - 16
East of England +4 25 £525 +4.74% 5
Scotland +11 22 £413 -8.33% 10
North East -29 14 £575 +35.29% 3
South West -32 14 £675 +5.88% 18
East Midlands -8 1 - -
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 6 (1.44%) Confluence
2 5 (1.20%) Apache
2 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.72%) nginx
3 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.48%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.24%) JBoss
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 130 (31.10%) Azure
2 110 (26.32%) AWS
3 61 (14.59%) GCP
4 41 (9.81%) GitHub
5 29 (6.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 28 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.46%) OCI
8 21 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (4.55%) OpenShift
10 19 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (4.07%) Entra ID
12 13 (3.11%) SaaS
13 10 (2.39%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (2.15%) Route 53
15 8 (1.91%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 208 (49.76%) Firewall
2 183 (43.78%) DNS
3 126 (30.14%) VPN
4 112 (26.79%) BGP
5 109 (26.08%) WAN
6 87 (20.81%) Network Security
7 79 (18.90%) BIG-IP
8 73 (17.46%) LAN
9 65 (15.55%) OSPF
10 62 (14.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 59 (14.11%) TCP/IP
11 59 (14.11%) VXLAN
12 55 (13.16%) SD-WAN
13 50 (11.96%) DHCP
13 50 (11.96%) Ethernet VPN
14 45 (10.77%) SSL
15 44 (10.53%) Multicast
16 42 (10.05%) DMZ
16 42 (10.05%) HTTP
17 37 (8.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.87%) Relational Database
2 7 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.67%) Power BI
3 6 (1.44%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.72%) Big Data
4 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.72%) HBase
4 3 (0.72%) MySQL
4 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.48%) EDRMS
5 2 (0.48%) Redis
5 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (10.53%) GitLab
2 31 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.26%) Git
4 15 (3.59%) Fiddler
4 15 (3.59%) JIRA
5 4 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.72%) JUnit
6 3 (0.72%) Maven
6 3 (0.72%) Selenium
7 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.48%) Introscope
7 2 (0.48%) MSI
7 2 (0.48%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.24%) Ant
8 1 (0.24%) Moq
8 1 (0.24%) NUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Serilog
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 73 (17.46%) Social Skills
2 71 (16.99%) Finance
3 56 (13.40%) Banking
4 43 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (7.89%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.39%) Retail
9 9 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.91%) Legal
11 7 (1.67%) Publishing
11 7 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.44%) Military
13 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.72%) Law
14 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.48%) German Language
Job Titles
1 145 (34.69%) Network Engineer
2 62 (14.83%) Senior
3 56 (13.40%) Security Engineer
4 51 (12.20%) Architect
5 40 (9.57%) Network Security Engineer
6 38 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
6 38 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 35 (8.37%) DevOps Engineer
8 34 (8.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (8.13%) Data Network Engineer
9 33 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 32 (7.66%) Data Engineer
11 31 (7.42%) Web Engineer
12 30 (7.18%) Cisco Security Engineer
13 23 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (5.02%) Network Architect
15 18 (4.31%) Senior Network Engineer
16 17 (4.07%) Lead
16 17 (4.07%) Network Specialist
17 16 (3.83%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.94%) 802.1X
2 14 (3.35%) Kafka
2 14 (3.35%) REST
3 11 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
4 9 (2.15%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.91%) CSS
5 8 (1.91%) React
6 7 (1.67%) OAuth
7 6 (1.44%) Middleware
7 6 (1.44%) Node.js
7 6 (1.44%) OAuth2
7 6 (1.44%) OpenID
8 5 (1.20%) SAML
8 5 (1.20%) Spring
8 5 (1.20%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.96%) HTML
9 4 (0.96%) Swagger
10 3 (0.72%) Azure Blueprints
10 3 (0.72%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.72%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 82 (19.62%) Data Centre
2 63 (15.07%) Cloud Native
3 44 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (7.66%) Clustering
4 32 (7.66%) Management Information System
4 32 (7.66%) PKI
5 15 (3.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 15 (3.59%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.67%) IoT
8 7 (1.67%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.96%) Digital Signage
11 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.72%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (18.66%) Windows
2 77 (18.42%) Linux
3 27 (6.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.91%) Unix
6 6 (1.44%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.48%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Android
8 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.24%) CentOS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (32.06%) CI/CD
2 125 (29.90%) DevOps
3 118 (28.23%) High Availability
4 107 (25.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (19.86%) Observability
7 64 (15.31%) Agile
7 64 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 58 (13.88%) Migration
9 53 (12.68%) Zero Trust
10 52 (12.44%) Containerisation
11 51 (12.20%) Identity Access Management
12 43 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
13 42 (10.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 39 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
15 37 (8.85%) Infrastructure Automation
16 36 (8.61%) Change Management
16 36 (8.61%) Roadmaps
17 35 (8.37%) ITIL
18 33 (7.89%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 112 (26.79%) Python
2 64 (15.31%) Bash
3 51 (12.20%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.13%) Java
5 16 (3.83%) Bicep
6 15 (3.59%) SQL
7 8 (1.91%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.67%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.44%) Perl
10 3 (0.72%) C++
10 3 (0.72%) Go
10 3 (0.72%) Groovy
10 3 (0.72%) Ruby
11 2 (0.48%) Jython
12 1 (0.24%) C#
12 1 (0.24%) R
12 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 136 (32.54%) Security Cleared
2 87 (20.81%) SC Cleared
3 65 (15.55%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (7.66%) DV Cleared
5 28 (6.70%) CCNP
6 23 (5.50%) Azure Certification
7 21 (5.02%) Degree
8 18 (4.31%) CCNA
9 17 (4.07%) AWS Certification
10 13 (3.11%) CISSP
11 9 (2.15%) CCIE
12 8 (1.91%) JNCIA
12 8 (1.91%) JNCIP
12 8 (1.91%) JNCIS
13 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.44%) OCP
13 6 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (1.20%) CCSE
14 5 (1.20%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.63%) QA
2 9 (2.15%) SLA
3 6 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (1.44%) NIST
4 4 (0.96%) NCSC
5 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) PSD2
6 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 62 (14.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (10.29%) Docker
3 32 (7.66%) VMware NSX
4 20 (4.78%) vSphere
5 18 (4.31%) Active Directory
6 17 (4.07%) Firmware
7 11 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.48%) NFS
10 2 (0.48%) Postfix
10 2 (0.48%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.48%) Varnish
11 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 132 (31.58%) Terraform
2 103 (24.64%) Kubernetes
3 79 (18.90%) Ansible
4 42 (10.05%) Grafana
5 39 (9.33%) FortiGate
6 30 (7.18%) Prometheus
7 19 (4.55%) Argo
7 19 (4.55%) Istio
8 18 (4.31%) vCenter Server
9 17 (4.07%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.39%) Puppet
11 7 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.20%) Kustomize
13 5 (1.20%) SCCM
14 4 (0.96%) Cisco Prime
14 4 (0.96%) systemd
15 3 (0.72%) yum
16 2 (0.48%) linkerd
16 2 (0.48%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 175 (41.87%) F5
2 134 (32.06%) Cisco
3 71 (16.99%) VMware
4 63 (15.07%) Palo Alto
5 44 (10.53%) Splunk
6 40 (9.57%) Juniper
7 39 (9.33%) Microsoft
8 34 (8.13%) Google
9 32 (7.66%) Arista
9 32 (7.66%) SolarWinds
10 30 (7.18%) Red Hat
11 26 (6.22%) Aruba
12 24 (5.74%) Fortinet
13 22 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
14 18 (4.31%) NetApp
15 16 (3.83%) Blue Coat
15 16 (3.83%) McAfee
16 15 (3.59%) Dynatrace
17 14 (3.35%) CheckPoint
18 13 (3.11%) Oracle