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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 387 374
Rank change year-on-year +87 -13 -30
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 391 140 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.52% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 83 139
10th Percentile £398 £386 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £577 £609 £600
90th Percentile £641 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +8.21% +2.70% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
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 42,291 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,385 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,541 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +79 353 £518 -5.91% 47
UK excluding London +62 269 £514 +8.21% 41
North of England +15 141 £514 -4.37% 13
North West +21 105 £533 -3.18% 11
Work from Home +16 100 £525 +16.67% 15
London -15 93 £506 -11.96% 19
West Midlands -5 69 £500 +25.00% 1
Midlands -12 69 £500 +25.00% 1
South East -12 60 £491 -10.68% 17
Yorkshire -26 30 £428 -4.89% 1
East of England -3 24 £525 +0.96% 1
Scotland 0 20 £413 -8.33% 5
South West -17 13 £663 +23.26% 3
North East -17 12 £650 +18.18% 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 4 (1.02%) Apache
1 4 (1.02%) Confluence
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.77%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.51%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.26%) CMS
4 1 (0.26%) JBoss
4 1 (0.26%) nginx
4 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 118 (30.18%) Azure
2 100 (25.58%) AWS
3 53 (13.55%) GitHub
4 45 (11.51%) GCP
5 36 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (6.91%) OCI
7 22 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 21 (5.37%) OpenShift
9 17 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.32%) Entra ID
11 13 (3.32%) SaaS
12 12 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.30%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.05%) PaaS
15 7 (1.79%) Serverless
16 6 (1.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 188 (48.08%) Firewall
2 178 (45.52%) DNS
3 107 (27.37%) BGP
4 104 (26.60%) VPN
5 96 (24.55%) WAN
6 88 (22.51%) BIG-IP
7 75 (19.18%) Network Security
8 64 (16.37%) LAN
9 62 (15.86%) OSPF
10 57 (14.58%) VXLAN
11 56 (14.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 52 (13.30%) SD-WAN
13 50 (12.79%) Ethernet VPN
14 48 (12.28%) TCP/IP
15 46 (11.76%) Multicast
15 46 (11.76%) SSL
16 45 (11.51%) DHCP
17 41 (10.49%) HTTP
18 40 (10.23%) DMZ
19 37 (9.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (1.79%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.28%) Power BI
4 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.77%) Big Data
4 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.77%) HBase
4 3 (0.77%) MySQL
4 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.51%) Redis
5 2 (0.51%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.26%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 45 (11.51%) Jenkins
2 35 (8.95%) GitLab
3 25 (6.39%) Fiddler
4 16 (4.09%) JIRA
5 14 (3.58%) Git
6 3 (0.77%) JUnit
6 3 (0.77%) Selenium
6 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.51%) Introscope
7 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.26%) Ant
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Moq
8 1 (0.26%) NUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Serilog
8 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 60 (15.35%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.81%) Finance
3 52 (13.30%) Banking
4 37 (9.46%) Investment Banking
5 36 (9.21%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.30%) Retail
8 6 (1.53%) Military
8 6 (1.53%) Publishing
8 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Legal
11 3 (0.77%) Advertising
11 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Automotive
12 1 (0.26%) Billing
12 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 145 (37.08%) Network Engineer
2 54 (13.81%) Security Engineer
3 50 (12.79%) Senior
4 44 (11.25%) Architect
5 41 (10.49%) Network Security Engineer
5 41 (10.49%) Web Engineer
6 39 (9.97%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (9.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 37 (9.46%) Data Network Engineer
8 34 (8.70%) Data Engineer
9 33 (8.44%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 33 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
10 32 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (5.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (5.37%) Lead
13 21 (5.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (4.60%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 18 (4.60%) IP Network Engineer
15 17 (4.35%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.16%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.84%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.07%) Kafka
4 8 (2.05%) REST
5 7 (1.79%) Middleware
6 6 (1.53%) CSS
6 6 (1.53%) Node.js
7 4 (1.02%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.02%) OAuth
7 4 (1.02%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.02%) OpenID
7 4 (1.02%) React
7 4 (1.02%) Swagger
8 3 (0.77%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.77%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.77%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.77%) SAML
8 3 (0.77%) Spring
8 3 (0.77%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.51%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.74%) Data Centre
2 59 (15.09%) Cloud Native
3 43 (11.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (8.18%) PKI
5 31 (7.93%) Clustering
6 27 (6.91%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.09%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.56%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.05%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (1.79%) IoT
11 6 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.77%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 79 (20.20%) Windows
2 55 (14.07%) Linux
3 22 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.07%) VMS
6 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.28%) Unix
8 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (31.20%) DevOps
2 121 (30.95%) CI/CD
3 112 (28.64%) High Availability
4 88 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (17.90%) Migration
7 69 (17.65%) Observability
8 53 (13.55%) Containerisation
9 50 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 48 (12.28%) Agile
11 47 (12.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 41 (10.49%) Zero Trust
13 38 (9.72%) Identity Access Management
14 34 (8.70%) Roadmaps
15 33 (8.44%) Change Management
16 31 (7.93%) Performance Optimisation
17 30 (7.67%) Disaster Recovery
17 30 (7.67%) ITIL
17 30 (7.67%) Platform Engineering
18 28 (7.16%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 97 (24.81%) Python
2 48 (12.28%) Bash
3 30 (7.67%) PowerShell
4 22 (5.63%) Java
5 13 (3.32%) SQL
6 11 (2.81%) Bicep
7 5 (1.28%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.77%) Groovy
8 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.77%) Perl
8 3 (0.77%) Ruby
9 2 (0.51%) Go
9 2 (0.51%) Jython
10 1 (0.26%) C#
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 112 (28.64%) Security Cleared
2 65 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 61 (15.60%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (7.93%) CCNP
4 31 (7.93%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.12%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.12%) Degree
6 15 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 12 (3.07%) CCNA
8 9 (2.30%) CISSP
9 8 (2.05%) JNCIA
9 8 (2.05%) JNCIP
9 8 (2.05%) JNCIS
10 7 (1.79%) CCIE
10 7 (1.79%) OCP
10 7 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.28%) CCSE
12 5 (1.28%) CCSM
12 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.81%) QA
2 10 (2.56%) SLA
3 6 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) NCSC
5 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 64 (16.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 37 (9.46%) Docker
4 29 (7.42%) vSphere
5 22 (5.63%) Active Directory
6 20 (5.12%) Firmware
7 13 (3.32%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.51%) NFS
10 2 (0.51%) Postfix
10 2 (0.51%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.51%) Varnish
11 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 119 (30.43%) Terraform
2 102 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 95 (24.30%) Ansible
4 42 (10.74%) Grafana
5 34 (8.70%) FortiGate
6 27 (6.91%) Prometheus
7 24 (6.14%) Argo
7 24 (6.14%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.07%) Progress Chef
9 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (2.56%) Istio
11 9 (2.30%) Puppet
11 9 (2.30%) SCCM
12 7 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (1.28%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.77%) Stealthwatch
15 3 (0.77%) systemd
15 3 (0.77%) yum
16 2 (0.51%) vMotion
Vendors
1 180 (46.04%) F5
2 126 (32.23%) Cisco
3 84 (21.48%) VMware
4 64 (16.37%) Palo Alto
5 47 (12.02%) Splunk
6 43 (11.00%) Juniper
7 32 (8.18%) Arista
8 30 (7.67%) SolarWinds
9 29 (7.42%) Red Hat
10 28 (7.16%) Google
10 28 (7.16%) Microsoft
11 26 (6.65%) Blue Coat
11 26 (6.65%) McAfee
12 25 (6.39%) Aruba
13 22 (5.63%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (5.63%) Fortinet
14 20 (5.12%) NetApp
15 17 (4.35%) Pure Storage
16 16 (4.09%) CheckPoint
17 13 (3.32%) Dynatrace