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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 369 348
Rank change year-on-year +57 -21 -6
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 335 161 248
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.60% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 96 153
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £439 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -3.65% -10.36%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +11.41% -5.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - £45.88
75th Percentile £65.01 - £60.00
90th Percentile £69.20 - £64.50
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 39,324 26,741 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.82% 90.76% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,807 17,298 24,232
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,048 2,416
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.31 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.01% -17.86% -6.67%

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 22 April 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 April 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 22 April 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 +33 308 £525 +5.00% 66
UK excluding London +39 233 £525 +11.41% 53
North of England -7 113 £500 -4.76% 21
North West +4 86 £519 +3.70% 15
London -12 85 £525 -8.70% 22
Midlands +1 76 £527 +83.30% 3
West Midlands +7 75 £527 +83.30% 1
Work from Home +6 74 £525 +16.67% 27
South East -14 54 £525 +10.53% 18
Yorkshire -30 30 £500 - 1
East of England -14 18 £525 - 3
Scotland +6 14 £413 -8.33% 3
South West -38 11 £710 +57.78% 3
East Midlands -35 1 - - 2

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 4 (1.19%) Apache
1 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.90%) Confluence
2 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.90%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.60%) nginx
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) JBoss
4 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 80 (23.88%) Azure
2 62 (18.51%) AWS
3 54 (16.12%) GitHub
4 39 (11.64%) GCP
5 31 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (6.87%) OpenShift
7 22 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (3.88%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (3.28%) Serverless
11 10 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.99%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.69%) Azure AKS
13 8 (2.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 170 (50.75%) DNS
2 159 (47.46%) Firewall
3 85 (25.37%) BGP
4 75 (22.39%) WAN
5 74 (22.09%) VPN
6 66 (19.70%) BIG-IP
7 61 (18.21%) Network Security
8 57 (17.01%) LAN
9 47 (14.03%) DHCP
9 47 (14.03%) OSPF
10 45 (13.43%) TCP/IP
11 44 (13.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 40 (11.94%) Multicast
13 39 (11.64%) DMZ
14 38 (11.34%) SSL
15 37 (11.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 36 (10.75%) VXLAN
17 35 (10.45%) HTTP
18 34 (10.15%) SD-WAN
19 31 (9.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.30%) MySQL
6 1 (0.30%) Redis
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 48 (14.33%) Jenkins
2 28 (8.36%) Fiddler
3 12 (3.58%) GitLab
4 11 (3.28%) JIRA
5 10 (2.99%) Git
6 4 (1.19%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.90%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.60%) Introscope
9 1 (0.30%) Ant
9 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.30%) Gatling
9 1 (0.30%) JMeter
9 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
9 1 (0.30%) Moq
9 1 (0.30%) NUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Serilog
General
1 66 (19.70%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.33%) Banking
3 37 (11.04%) Investment Banking
4 36 (10.75%) Finance
5 23 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.69%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.09%) Retail
10 7 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.79%) Military
12 3 (0.90%) Legal
12 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.60%) Advertising
13 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.30%) Billing
14 1 (0.30%) Games
14 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (37.31%) Network Engineer
2 59 (17.61%) Architect
3 42 (12.54%) Web Engineer
4 40 (11.94%) Security Engineer
5 35 (10.45%) Network Security Engineer
6 32 (9.55%) Data Network Engineer
7 31 (9.25%) Cisco Engineer
7 31 (9.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 30 (8.96%) Senior
9 29 (8.66%) Data Engineer
10 28 (8.36%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 22 (6.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 21 (6.27%) Network Architect
13 20 (5.97%) Lead
14 19 (5.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 19 (5.67%) IP Network Engineer
14 19 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (4.78%) Network Specialist
16 15 (4.48%) Senior Network Engineer
17 14 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.06%) 802.1X
2 17 (5.07%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (2.39%) LDAP
3 8 (2.39%) OAuth
3 8 (2.39%) OAuth2
3 8 (2.39%) OpenID
4 7 (2.09%) Middleware
4 7 (2.09%) SAML
5 6 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.79%) Kafka
6 5 (1.49%) Node.js
6 5 (1.49%) OpenAPI
6 5 (1.49%) REST
6 5 (1.49%) Swagger
7 4 (1.19%) VML
8 3 (0.90%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.90%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.90%) JSON
8 3 (0.90%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (0.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 63 (18.81%) Data Centre
2 41 (12.24%) Cloud Native
3 32 (9.55%) PKI
4 27 (8.06%) Clustering
5 25 (7.46%) Management Information System
6 22 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (5.07%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.69%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.09%) IoT
10 6 (1.79%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.49%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.49%) Replication
12 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.90%) SCADA
13 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (21.19%) Windows
2 40 (11.94%) Linux
3 24 (7.16%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.88%) VMS
5 7 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.49%) CentOS
7 5 (1.49%) Unix
8 3 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.60%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (27.46%) High Availability
2 86 (25.67%) DevOps
3 78 (23.28%) CI/CD
4 70 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (20.00%) Migration
6 56 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 48 (14.33%) Observability
8 38 (11.34%) Identity Access Management
9 34 (10.15%) Containerisation
10 32 (9.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (9.25%) Performance Optimisation
12 29 (8.66%) Data Loss Prevention
12 29 (8.66%) RBAC
12 29 (8.66%) Roadmaps
13 28 (8.36%) Agile
13 28 (8.36%) ITIL
13 28 (8.36%) Malware Detection/Protection
13 28 (8.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (7.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 77 (22.99%) Python
2 42 (12.54%) Bash
3 32 (9.55%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.39%) Bicep
5 7 (2.09%) SQL
6 4 (1.19%) Java
7 3 (0.90%) C#
7 3 (0.90%) Groovy
7 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.60%) Jython
8 2 (0.60%) Perl
8 2 (0.60%) Ruby
9 1 (0.30%) Go
9 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 52 (15.52%) Cisco Certification
3 46 (13.73%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.25%) DV Cleared
5 30 (8.96%) CCNP
6 16 (4.78%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.78%) Degree
7 14 (4.18%) CCIE
8 12 (3.58%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.99%) JNCIP
10 8 (2.39%) JNCIA
10 8 (2.39%) JNCIS
10 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.09%) OCP
11 7 (2.09%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (1.79%) CCNA
12 6 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.49%) CISSP
14 3 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.69%) SLA
2 7 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.79%) NIST
4 5 (1.49%) GDPR
5 4 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.19%) QA
6 3 (0.90%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 68 (20.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (15.52%) VMware NSX
3 31 (9.25%) Active Directory
4 29 (8.66%) Docker
5 25 (7.46%) vSphere
6 21 (6.27%) Firmware
7 9 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.79%) Postfix
10 5 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.60%) NFS
12 2 (0.60%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.60%) Varnish
13 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.30%) XenApp
13 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 89 (26.57%) Terraform
2 77 (22.99%) Ansible
3 75 (22.39%) Kubernetes
4 36 (10.75%) FortiGate
5 27 (8.06%) Grafana
6 24 (7.16%) Argo
7 21 (6.27%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.58%) Prometheus
9 11 (3.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (2.99%) SCCM
11 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (2.39%) Istio
13 5 (1.49%) HAProxy
13 5 (1.49%) Progress Chef
14 4 (1.19%) Kibana
15 3 (0.90%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.90%) Puppet
15 3 (0.90%) SCOM
15 3 (0.90%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 161 (48.06%) F5
2 112 (33.43%) Cisco
3 90 (26.87%) VMware
4 42 (12.54%) Juniper
4 42 (12.54%) Splunk
5 37 (11.04%) Palo Alto
6 35 (10.45%) Microsoft
7 30 (8.96%) SolarWinds
8 29 (8.66%) McAfee
9 28 (8.36%) Blue Coat
10 23 (6.87%) Red Hat
11 21 (6.27%) Extreme Networks
11 21 (6.27%) NetApp
12 19 (5.67%) Pure Storage
13 18 (5.37%) Fortinet
13 18 (5.37%) Google
14 15 (4.48%) Meraki
15 13 (3.88%) Arista
15 13 (3.88%) CheckPoint
16 9 (2.69%) Oracle