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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 395 311
Rank change year-on-year +61 -84 +19
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 386 160 247
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.48% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.54% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 94 143
10th Percentile £400 £347 £365
25th Percentile £447 £403 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.66% -12.95% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £658 £684 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +19.33% -10.00% -14.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 0 0
10th Percentile £57.80 - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.38 - -

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 45,930 29,887 32,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.55% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,618 18,553 19,727
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £635 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,299 1,876 1,335
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £65.00 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -48.10% +1.18%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +40 342 £535 +4.90% 205
UK excluding London +39 239 £537 +19.33% 111
North of England +14 127 £524 +4.80% 26
London -19 119 £523 -5.00% 114
Work from Home -18 99 £550 +22.22% 84
North West +5 91 £537 +7.40% 18
Midlands -31 53 £469 +17.25% 13
West Midlands -37 52 £469 +17.25% 10
South East -37 29 £550 - 28
Yorkshire -16 27 £500 - 7
Scotland +7 26 £425 -5.56% 18
East of England -2 24 £575 +14.71% 8
South West -20 22 £675 -10.00% 16
North East -25 15 £500 +2.56% 2
East Midlands -10 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 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 7 (1.81%) Confluence
2 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.04%) nginx
4 3 (0.78%) Apache
4 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 130 (33.68%) Azure
2 112 (29.02%) AWS
3 66 (17.10%) GCP
4 35 (9.07%) GitHub
5 28 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (6.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 22 (5.70%) OCI
9 20 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (4.92%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (3.37%) SaaS
14 12 (3.11%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (2.85%) OpenShift
15 11 (2.85%) Route 53
16 10 (2.59%) Amazon S3
16 10 (2.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 186 (48.19%) Firewall
2 158 (40.93%) DNS
3 118 (30.57%) VPN
4 89 (23.06%) Network Security
5 86 (22.28%) BGP
6 73 (18.91%) WAN
7 68 (17.62%) TCP/IP
8 58 (15.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 51 (13.21%) BIG-IP
10 49 (12.69%) SSL
11 45 (11.66%) LAN
11 45 (11.66%) OSPF
12 42 (10.88%) HTTP
12 42 (10.88%) SD-WAN
13 37 (9.59%) DHCP
13 37 (9.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 35 (9.07%) VXLAN
15 33 (8.55%) Wireless
16 31 (8.03%) DMZ
17 29 (7.51%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.89%) Relational Database
2 9 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.07%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.81%) Power BI
5 5 (1.30%) MySQL
6 4 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.04%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.78%) Big Data
7 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.78%) EDRMS
7 3 (0.78%) HBase
7 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.52%) Metadata
8 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 48 (12.44%) GitLab
2 27 (6.99%) Git
3 18 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.37%) JIRA
5 11 (2.85%) Fiddler
6 4 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.78%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.78%) JUnit
7 3 (0.78%) Maven
7 3 (0.78%) Selenium
8 2 (0.52%) MSI
8 2 (0.52%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.26%) Ant
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) git-flow
9 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.26%) Storybook
General
1 78 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.88%) Finance
3 50 (12.95%) Banking
4 41 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.74%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.15%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.59%) Legal
10 7 (1.81%) Retail
11 6 (1.55%) Publishing
12 5 (1.30%) Automotive
13 4 (1.04%) Law
14 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.78%) Agriculture
14 3 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.78%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.52%) German Language
Job Titles
1 121 (31.35%) Network Engineer
2 51 (13.21%) Senior
3 42 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 41 (10.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (10.36%) Architect
6 39 (10.10%) Security Engineer
7 33 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (7.25%) Cisco Engineer
8 28 (7.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 26 (6.74%) Network Security Engineer
10 24 (6.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (5.70%) Data Engineer
12 21 (5.44%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 21 (5.44%) Data Network Engineer
12 21 (5.44%) Web Engineer
13 20 (5.18%) Software Engineer
14 17 (4.40%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
15 16 (4.15%) Developer
15 16 (4.15%) Network Architect
16 14 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (33.42%) Terraform
2 20 (5.18%) REST
3 13 (3.37%) Kafka
4 11 (2.85%) ARM Templates
5 9 (2.33%) OAuth
6 8 (2.07%) CSS
6 8 (2.07%) OpenID
6 8 (2.07%) React
7 7 (1.81%) 802.1X
7 7 (1.81%) Node.js
7 7 (1.81%) SAML
7 7 (1.81%) YAML
8 6 (1.55%) Keycloak
8 6 (1.55%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (1.30%) JSON
9 5 (1.30%) Spring
9 5 (1.30%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.04%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.06%) Data Centre
2 60 (15.54%) Cloud Native
3 42 (10.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (8.29%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.89%) PKI
6 14 (3.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 14 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.63%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.33%) Clustering
8 7 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
8 7 (1.81%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.55%) Digital Signage
9 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.55%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (22.28%) Linux
2 61 (15.80%) Windows
3 29 (7.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (6.48%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.07%) Unix
7 3 (0.78%) CentOS
8 2 (0.52%) Android
8 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (36.01%) CI/CD
2 136 (35.23%) DevOps
3 124 (32.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (20.73%) High Availability
5 73 (18.91%) Agile
6 69 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (16.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 65 (16.84%) Observability
8 54 (13.99%) Platform Engineering
9 51 (13.21%) Migration
10 50 (12.95%) Containerisation
11 48 (12.44%) Zero Trust
12 42 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 40 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (10.36%) Disaster Recovery
14 36 (9.33%) Software Engineering
15 35 (9.07%) Change Management
15 35 (9.07%) Infrastructure Automation
16 33 (8.55%) Configuration Management
16 33 (8.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 114 (29.53%) Python
2 65 (16.84%) PowerShell
3 60 (15.54%) Bash
4 37 (9.59%) Java
5 19 (4.92%) Bicep
6 15 (3.89%) SQL
7 11 (2.85%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.07%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.07%) Perl
9 4 (1.04%) C++
9 4 (1.04%) Go
10 2 (0.52%) C#
11 1 (0.26%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.26%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) R
11 1 (0.26%) Ruby
11 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 121 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 96 (24.87%) SC Cleared
3 46 (11.92%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (6.48%) Azure Certification
4 25 (6.48%) CCNP
5 23 (5.96%) DV Cleared
6 22 (5.70%) CCNA
7 20 (5.18%) Degree
8 19 (4.92%) AWS Certification
9 14 (3.63%) CISSP
10 10 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.81%) CCIE
13 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.78%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.78%) CCSE
14 3 (0.78%) CCSM
14 3 (0.78%) VCAP
15 2 (0.52%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.33%) QA
2 6 (1.55%) SLA
3 4 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.04%) NCSC
3 4 (1.04%) NIST
4 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.52%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.26%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) GRC
5 1 (0.26%) PSD2
5 1 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 63 (16.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (10.62%) Docker
3 29 (7.51%) Active Directory
4 22 (5.70%) vSphere
5 20 (5.18%) VMware NSX
6 19 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (3.11%) Firmware
8 11 (2.85%) Hyper-V
8 11 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.26%) KVM
11 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.26%) zsh
Systems Management
1 102 (26.42%) Kubernetes
2 82 (21.24%) Ansible
3 35 (9.07%) Grafana
4 34 (8.81%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.18%) Istio
6 18 (4.66%) FortiGate
7 17 (4.40%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.63%) vCenter Server
9 12 (3.11%) Puppet
10 8 (2.07%) Argo
11 7 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.55%) Cisco Prime
12 6 (1.55%) PowerCLI
12 6 (1.55%) SCCM
13 5 (1.30%) Kustomize
13 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.30%) Nagios
14 4 (1.04%) Packer
14 4 (1.04%) systemd
15 3 (0.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 126 (32.64%) F5
2 101 (26.17%) Cisco
3 72 (18.65%) VMware
4 56 (14.51%) Palo Alto
5 50 (12.95%) Microsoft
6 35 (9.07%) Google
7 25 (6.48%) Arista
8 24 (6.22%) Aruba
8 24 (6.22%) Fortinet
9 20 (5.18%) Red Hat
10 19 (4.92%) Splunk
11 17 (4.40%) Dynatrace
11 17 (4.40%) SolarWinds
12 14 (3.63%) NetApp
13 12 (3.11%) Blue Coat
13 12 (3.11%) McAfee
14 11 (2.85%) CheckPoint
14 11 (2.85%) Juniper
15 10 (2.59%) AppDynamics
16 9 (2.33%) Zscaler