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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 405 333
Rank change year-on-year +79 -72 +24
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 417 154 242
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.52% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 96 145
10th Percentile £400 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £681 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £501 £475
% change year-on-year +4.90% +5.37% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £76.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
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 45,595 29,691 33,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.49% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,992 18,509 21,072
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% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,871 1,749 1,744
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.68% -37.90% -2.41%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -44.58% +10.67%

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 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 22 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 22 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 +86 377 £525 - 115
UK excluding London +70 285 £525 +4.90% 75
North of England +43 154 £525 - 24
North West +28 113 £537 +2.29% 11
London -30 104 £523 -7.93% 56
Work from Home +6 102 £530 +17.67% 43
Midlands -9 68 £499 +24.75% 6
West Midlands -9 67 £499 +24.75% 5
South East -26 52 £527 -6.27% 17
Yorkshire -12 32 £500 - 12
East of England +2 26 £525 +4.74% 6
Scotland +4 23 £413 -8.33% 10
South West -26 20 £663 +3.92% 13
North East -30 15 £500 +2.56% 1
East Midlands -17 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 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 (1.44%) 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
1 127 (30.46%) Azure
2 114 (27.34%) AWS
3 61 (14.63%) GCP
4 38 (9.11%) GitHub
5 28 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (6.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 26 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (6.00%) OCI
9 22 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (4.56%) Entra ID
12 18 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (4.08%) OpenShift
14 13 (3.12%) SaaS
15 12 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (2.88%) Azure AKS
16 10 (2.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 10 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (2.40%) Route 53
16 10 (2.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 197 (47.24%) Firewall
2 183 (43.88%) DNS
3 132 (31.65%) VPN
4 102 (24.46%) BGP
5 99 (23.74%) WAN
6 90 (21.58%) Network Security
7 68 (16.31%) BIG-IP
8 65 (15.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 62 (14.87%) TCP/IP
10 60 (14.39%) LAN
11 56 (13.43%) SD-WAN
12 49 (11.75%) OSPF
13 46 (11.03%) SSL
13 46 (11.03%) VXLAN
14 44 (10.55%) DMZ
15 43 (10.31%) HTTP
16 42 (10.07%) Multicast
17 40 (9.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 38 (9.11%) Ethernet VPN
18 38 (9.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.88%) Relational Database
2 7 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.68%) 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
5 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.48%) EDRMS
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Metadata
6 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (10.79%) GitLab
2 26 (6.24%) Jenkins
3 23 (5.52%) Git
4 16 (3.84%) Fiddler
5 15 (3.60%) JIRA
6 4 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.72%) JUnit
7 3 (0.72%) Maven
7 3 (0.72%) Selenium
8 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.48%) Introscope
8 2 (0.48%) MSI
8 2 (0.48%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.24%) Ant
9 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.03%) Finance
3 62 (14.87%) Banking
4 42 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 38 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (8.63%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.40%) Legal
9 10 (2.40%) Retail
10 7 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.44%) Publishing
12 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.96%) Law
13 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.48%) German Language
14 2 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 145 (34.77%) Network Engineer
2 60 (14.39%) Senior
3 56 (13.43%) Security Engineer
4 49 (11.75%) Architect
5 41 (9.83%) Network Security Engineer
6 40 (9.59%) Cisco Engineer
6 40 (9.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 38 (9.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (8.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 35 (8.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 35 (8.39%) Data Network Engineer
10 33 (7.91%) Data Engineer
11 32 (7.67%) Web Engineer
12 31 (7.43%) Cisco Security Engineer
13 23 (5.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (4.80%) Network Architect
15 16 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.84%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 16 (3.84%) IP Network Engineer
15 16 (3.84%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (32.61%) Terraform
2 16 (3.84%) 802.1X
3 14 (3.36%) Kafka
4 12 (2.88%) REST
5 9 (2.16%) ARM Templates
5 9 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (1.92%) CSS
7 7 (1.68%) React
8 6 (1.44%) Middleware
8 6 (1.44%) Node.js
8 6 (1.44%) OAuth
8 6 (1.44%) OpenID
9 5 (1.20%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.20%) SAML
9 5 (1.20%) Spring
9 5 (1.20%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.96%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (0.96%) HTML
11 3 (0.72%) JSON
11 3 (0.72%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (17.03%) Data Centre
2 63 (15.11%) Cloud Native
3 48 (11.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (8.15%) Management Information System
5 22 (5.28%) PKI
6 19 (4.56%) Clustering
7 16 (3.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 14 (3.36%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.16%) IoT
11 8 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.92%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.44%) Distributed Applications
12 6 (1.44%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.20%) Digital Signage
13 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.96%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 82 (19.66%) Linux
2 65 (15.59%) Windows
3 26 (6.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.12%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.16%) 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
1 135 (32.37%) CI/CD
2 130 (31.18%) DevOps
3 114 (27.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (24.46%) High Availability
5 75 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (16.79%) Agile
7 69 (16.55%) Observability
8 67 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 56 (13.43%) Migration
10 52 (12.47%) Zero Trust
11 51 (12.23%) Containerisation
12 50 (11.99%) Platform Engineering
13 44 (10.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
15 38 (9.11%) Identity Access Management
15 38 (9.11%) Infrastructure Automation
16 37 (8.87%) Roadmaps
17 35 (8.39%) Change Management
17 35 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (7.67%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 113 (27.10%) Python
2 64 (15.35%) Bash
3 52 (12.47%) PowerShell
4 33 (7.91%) Java
5 17 (4.08%) Bicep
6 14 (3.36%) SQL
7 11 (2.64%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.68%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.68%) Perl
9 4 (0.96%) Go
10 3 (0.72%) C++
10 3 (0.72%) Ruby
11 2 (0.48%) Jython
12 1 (0.24%) Groovy
12 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 130 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 92 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 56 (13.43%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (6.71%) CCNP
5 26 (6.24%) DV Cleared
6 24 (5.76%) Azure Certification
7 21 (5.04%) Degree
8 18 (4.32%) AWS Certification
8 18 (4.32%) CCNA
9 13 (3.12%) CISSP
10 9 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (1.92%) CCIE
12 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.20%) CCSE
13 5 (1.20%) CCSM
13 5 (1.20%) OCP
13 5 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.72%) JNCIA
14 3 (0.72%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.64%) QA
2 9 (2.16%) SLA
3 6 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.20%) NIST
5 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.48%) NCSC
5 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) PSD2
6 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (16.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (9.83%) Docker
3 33 (7.91%) VMware NSX
4 22 (5.28%) vSphere
5 19 (4.56%) Active Directory
6 18 (4.32%) Firmware
7 15 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.48%) NFS
10 2 (0.48%) Postfix
10 2 (0.48%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.48%) Varnish
10 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 107 (25.66%) Kubernetes
2 83 (19.90%) Ansible
3 40 (9.59%) Grafana
4 32 (7.67%) Prometheus
5 25 (6.00%) FortiGate
6 20 (4.80%) Istio
7 19 (4.56%) vCenter Server
8 17 (4.08%) Progress Chef
9 16 (3.84%) Argo
10 10 (2.40%) Puppet
11 8 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
13 5 (1.20%) Kustomize
13 5 (1.20%) PowerCLI
13 5 (1.20%) SCCM
14 4 (0.96%) systemd
15 3 (0.72%) Packer
15 3 (0.72%) yum
16 2 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 165 (39.57%) F5
2 127 (30.46%) Cisco
3 76 (18.23%) VMware
4 64 (15.35%) Palo Alto
5 39 (9.35%) Microsoft
6 33 (7.91%) Google
7 30 (7.19%) Splunk
8 29 (6.95%) Arista
9 27 (6.47%) Red Hat
10 25 (6.00%) Aruba
10 25 (6.00%) Juniper
11 22 (5.28%) Fortinet
12 21 (5.04%) SolarWinds
13 19 (4.56%) NetApp
14 17 (4.08%) Blue Coat
14 17 (4.08%) McAfee
15 15 (3.60%) Dynatrace
16 14 (3.36%) CheckPoint
17 13 (3.12%) AppDynamics
18 12 (2.88%) Infoblox