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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 377 359
Rank change year-on-year +65 -18 +10
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 404 169 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.52% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.57% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 102 141
10th Percentile £400 £338 £350
25th Percentile £447 £416 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £675
90th Percentile £638 £650 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
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 44,825 29,480 35,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.35% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,802 18,519 22,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,641 1,572 2,187
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.50 £50.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.95%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +78 366 £525 +0.96% 74
UK excluding London +52 277 £525 +16.67% 49
North of England +23 145 £527 +8.00% 13
North West +19 108 £537 -4.53% 7
London -27 98 £506 -7.95% 36
Work from Home -4 96 £525 +16.67% 18
South East -8 67 £525 -4.55% 15
Midlands -9 67 £529 +28.24% 3
West Midlands -10 66 £529 +32.25% 3
Yorkshire -22 31 £464 +3.11% 6
East of England 0 23 £525 +4.74% 6
Scotland -4 20 £413 -8.33% 6
North East -25 12 £650 +52.94%
South West -31 12 £663 +23.26% 4
East Midlands -13 1 - -

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 (1.49%) Confluence
2 4 (0.99%) Apache
2 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.74%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.50%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.50%) nginx
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 120 (29.70%) Azure
2 109 (26.98%) AWS
3 57 (14.11%) GCP
4 43 (10.64%) GitHub
5 28 (6.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 27 (6.68%) OCI
7 25 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (5.69%) OpenShift
9 20 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (4.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (3.47%) Entra ID
12 14 (3.47%) SaaS
13 11 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.23%) PaaS
15 8 (1.98%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.98%) Route 53
15 8 (1.98%) Serverless
16 7 (1.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 203 (50.25%) Firewall
2 182 (45.05%) DNS
3 123 (30.45%) VPN
4 114 (28.22%) BGP
5 109 (26.98%) WAN
6 87 (21.53%) Network Security
7 80 (19.80%) BIG-IP
8 72 (17.82%) LAN
9 67 (16.58%) OSPF
10 60 (14.85%) VXLAN
11 59 (14.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 58 (14.36%) TCP/IP
13 56 (13.86%) SD-WAN
14 51 (12.62%) Ethernet VPN
15 49 (12.13%) Multicast
16 47 (11.63%) DHCP
17 45 (11.14%) SSL
18 40 (9.90%) DMZ
18 40 (9.90%) HTTP
19 36 (8.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.72%) Relational Database
2 7 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.73%) Power BI
3 6 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.74%) Big Data
4 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.74%) HBase
4 3 (0.74%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.50%) Redis
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.25%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (9.65%) GitLab
2 36 (8.91%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.46%) Fiddler
4 16 (3.96%) Git
4 16 (3.96%) JIRA
5 4 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.74%) JUnit
6 3 (0.74%) Selenium
7 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.50%) Introscope
7 2 (0.50%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.25%) Ant
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Moq
8 1 (0.25%) NUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Serilog
General
1 68 (16.83%) Finance
2 64 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 55 (13.61%) Banking
4 39 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 35 (8.66%) Investment Banking
6 26 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.22%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.48%) Retail
9 7 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.49%) Military
10 6 (1.49%) Publishing
10 6 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.24%) Legal
12 3 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Automotive
14 1 (0.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 148 (36.63%) Network Engineer
2 56 (13.86%) Security Engineer
3 55 (13.61%) Architect
3 55 (13.61%) Senior
4 40 (9.90%) Network Security Engineer
5 39 (9.65%) Cisco Engineer
5 39 (9.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 35 (8.66%) Data Network Engineer
7 34 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (8.42%) Web Engineer
8 33 (8.17%) Data Engineer
9 31 (7.67%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 31 (7.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 30 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (5.45%) Network Architect
11 22 (5.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (4.21%) Lead
12 17 (4.21%) Network Specialist
13 16 (3.96%) IP Network Engineer
13 16 (3.96%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.18%) 802.1X
2 16 (3.96%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (2.97%) Kafka
4 11 (2.72%) REST
5 7 (1.73%) ARM Templates
5 7 (1.73%) Node.js
6 6 (1.49%) CSS
6 6 (1.49%) Middleware
7 4 (0.99%) eBPF
7 4 (0.99%) OAuth
7 4 (0.99%) React
7 4 (0.99%) Spring
7 4 (0.99%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.99%) Swagger
8 3 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.74%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.74%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (0.74%) ModSecurity
8 3 (0.74%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.74%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.29%) Data Centre
2 63 (15.59%) Cloud Native
3 46 (11.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 30 (7.43%) Clustering
4 30 (7.43%) Management Information System
4 30 (7.43%) PKI
5 15 (3.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 15 (3.71%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.73%) IoT
8 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.24%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.99%) Digital Signage
10 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.74%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.74%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (19.06%) Windows
2 65 (16.09%) Linux
3 26 (6.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.49%) Unix
6 5 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.50%) VMS
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (31.19%) CI/CD
2 121 (29.95%) DevOps
3 117 (28.96%) High Availability
4 97 (24.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (19.06%) Observability
7 61 (15.10%) Migration
8 59 (14.60%) Agile
9 57 (14.11%) Containerisation
10 54 (13.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 50 (12.38%) Zero Trust
12 44 (10.89%) Identity Access Management
13 39 (9.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 35 (8.66%) Change Management
14 35 (8.66%) Infrastructure Automation
15 34 (8.42%) Cloud Security
16 33 (8.17%) Platform Engineering
17 32 (7.92%) Disaster Recovery
17 32 (7.92%) ITIL
17 32 (7.92%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 111 (27.48%) Python
2 60 (14.85%) Bash
3 40 (9.90%) PowerShell
4 33 (8.17%) Java
5 15 (3.71%) SQL
6 13 (3.22%) Bicep
7 7 (1.73%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.99%) Perl
9 3 (0.74%) Go
9 3 (0.74%) Groovy
9 3 (0.74%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.74%) Ruby
10 2 (0.50%) Jython
11 1 (0.25%) C#
11 1 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 129 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 81 (20.05%) SC Cleared
3 69 (17.08%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (7.92%) CCNP
4 32 (7.92%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.20%) Degree
6 19 (4.70%) CCNA
7 18 (4.46%) Azure Certification
8 16 (3.96%) AWS Certification
9 13 (3.22%) CISSP
10 10 (2.48%) CCIE
11 8 (1.98%) JNCIA
11 8 (1.98%) JNCIP
11 8 (1.98%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.73%) OCP
12 7 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (1.24%) CCSE
13 5 (1.24%) CCSM
13 5 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.72%) QA
2 9 (2.23%) SLA
3 6 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.24%) NCSC
5 4 (0.99%) NIST
6 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.50%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) GDPR
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 62 (15.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (10.15%) Docker
3 39 (9.65%) VMware NSX
4 28 (6.93%) vSphere
5 18 (4.46%) Firmware
6 16 (3.96%) Active Directory
7 11 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.50%) NFS
10 2 (0.50%) Postfix
10 2 (0.50%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.50%) Varnish
11 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 126 (31.19%) Terraform
2 102 (25.25%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.05%) Ansible
4 46 (11.39%) Grafana
5 38 (9.41%) FortiGate
6 29 (7.18%) Prometheus
7 25 (6.19%) Argo
7 25 (6.19%) vCenter Server
8 15 (3.71%) Progress Chef
9 12 (2.97%) Istio
10 10 (2.48%) Puppet
11 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.24%) SCCM
12 4 (0.99%) Cisco Prime
13 3 (0.74%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.74%) systemd
13 3 (0.74%) yum
14 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.50%) Cilium
Vendors
1 176 (43.56%) F5
2 136 (33.66%) Cisco
3 76 (18.81%) VMware
4 66 (16.34%) Palo Alto
5 49 (12.13%) Splunk
6 42 (10.40%) Juniper
7 36 (8.91%) Arista
8 32 (7.92%) Google
8 32 (7.92%) Red Hat
9 31 (7.67%) Microsoft
9 31 (7.67%) SolarWinds
10 26 (6.44%) Aruba
10 26 (6.44%) Fortinet
11 22 (5.45%) Extreme Networks
12 20 (4.95%) McAfee
13 19 (4.70%) Blue Coat
14 18 (4.46%) NetApp
15 17 (4.21%) Pure Storage
16 15 (3.71%) CheckPoint
16 15 (3.71%) Dynatrace