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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 398 342
Rank change year-on-year +90 -56 +14
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 418 159 234
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.53% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 93 145
10th Percentile £401 £341 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £671 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £501 £400
% change year-on-year +4.90% +25.13% -25.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £52.43 - -
25th Percentile £65.29 - -
Median hourly rate £80.67 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
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 45,557 29,755 33,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.46% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,078 18,625 21,348
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,814 1,660 1,859
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.32 £18.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.10 £41.25
% change year-on-year +90.30% -44.00% +7.56%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +79 379 £525 - 122
UK excluding London +78 290 £525 +4.90% 69
North of England +25 149 £528 +1.05% 30
North West +23 109 £537 +2.29% 16
London -23 101 £513 -8.89% 59
Work from Home -11 99 £529 +17.56% 42
South East -5 69 £525 -4.55% 15
Midlands -7 67 £529 +28.24% 4
West Midlands -8 66 £529 +32.25% 4
Yorkshire -12 32 £428 - 12
East of England +6 25 £525 +4.74% 3
Scotland +8 22 £413 -8.33% 7
North East -30 14 £575 +35.29% 3
South West -35 14 £675 +5.88% 11
East Midlands -11 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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
1 129 (30.86%) Azure
2 112 (26.79%) AWS
3 62 (14.83%) GCP
4 42 (10.05%) GitHub
5 30 (7.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 28 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.46%) OCI
8 21 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (4.78%) OpenShift
10 19 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (4.07%) Entra ID
12 14 (3.35%) SaaS
13 11 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.39%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.15%) Route 53
16 8 (1.91%) PaaS
16 8 (1.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 207 (49.52%) Firewall
2 184 (44.02%) DNS
3 126 (30.14%) VPN
4 113 (27.03%) BGP
5 108 (25.84%) WAN
6 85 (20.33%) Network Security
7 79 (18.90%) BIG-IP
8 72 (17.22%) LAN
9 66 (15.79%) OSPF
10 60 (14.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 60 (14.35%) TCP/IP
10 60 (14.35%) VXLAN
11 56 (13.40%) SD-WAN
12 51 (12.20%) Ethernet VPN
13 49 (11.72%) DHCP
14 46 (11.00%) Multicast
14 46 (11.00%) SSL
15 43 (10.29%) HTTP
16 42 (10.05%) DMZ
17 35 (8.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.87%) Relational Database
2 7 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.67%) 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
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.48%) EDRMS
5 2 (0.48%) Redis
5 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (10.53%) GitLab
2 32 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.26%) Git
4 17 (4.07%) Fiddler
5 16 (3.83%) JIRA
6 5 (1.20%) 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%) Moq
9 1 (0.24%) NUnit
9 1 (0.24%) Serilog
9 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 74 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.51%) Finance
3 58 (13.88%) Banking
4 43 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 35 (8.37%) Investment Banking
6 32 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.39%) Retail
9 8 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.67%) Publishing
10 7 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.44%) Legal
11 6 (1.44%) Military
12 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Law
13 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.48%) German Language
Job Titles
1 145 (34.69%) Network Engineer
2 60 (14.35%) Senior
3 56 (13.40%) Security Engineer
4 53 (12.68%) Architect
5 40 (9.57%) Network Security Engineer
6 39 (9.33%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (9.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 36 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 35 (8.37%) Data Network Engineer
9 34 (8.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 33 (7.89%) Data Engineer
10 33 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (7.89%) Web Engineer
11 31 (7.42%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 23 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (5.26%) Network Architect
14 17 (4.07%) Lead
14 17 (4.07%) Network Specialist
15 16 (3.83%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 16 (3.83%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.94%) 802.1X
2 14 (3.35%) Kafka
3 13 (3.11%) REST
4 12 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (2.15%) ARM Templates
6 8 (1.91%) CSS
6 8 (1.91%) React
7 7 (1.67%) Node.js
7 7 (1.67%) OAuth
8 6 (1.44%) Middleware
8 6 (1.44%) OAuth2
8 6 (1.44%) OpenID
9 5 (1.20%) SAML
9 5 (1.20%) Spring
9 5 (1.20%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.96%) HTML
10 4 (0.96%) JSON
10 4 (0.96%) Swagger
11 3 (0.72%) LDAP
11 3 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (19.62%) Data Centre
2 64 (15.31%) Cloud Native
3 45 (10.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (7.89%) Management Information System
5 31 (7.42%) Clustering
5 31 (7.42%) PKI
6 15 (3.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 15 (3.59%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.67%) IoT
9 7 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.96%) Digital Signage
11 4 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (18.90%) Windows
2 78 (18.66%) Linux
3 27 (6.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.67%) 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
7 2 (0.48%) VMS
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
1 134 (32.06%) CI/CD
2 127 (30.38%) DevOps
3 118 (28.23%) High Availability
4 108 (25.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 85 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (19.86%) Observability
7 66 (15.79%) Agile
8 62 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 60 (14.35%) Migration
10 54 (12.92%) Zero Trust
11 53 (12.68%) Containerisation
12 51 (12.20%) Identity Access Management
13 42 (10.05%) Platform Engineering
14 41 (9.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 38 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
16 36 (8.61%) Infrastructure Automation
17 35 (8.37%) Change Management
17 35 (8.37%) Cloud Security
17 35 (8.37%) ITIL
17 35 (8.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 114 (27.27%) Python
2 65 (15.55%) Bash
3 50 (11.96%) PowerShell
4 35 (8.37%) Java
5 16 (3.83%) Bicep
6 15 (3.59%) SQL
7 8 (1.91%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.67%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.20%) Perl
10 3 (0.72%) C++
10 3 (0.72%) Go
10 3 (0.72%) Groovy
10 3 (0.72%) Ruby
11 2 (0.48%) Jython
12 1 (0.24%) C#
12 1 (0.24%) R
12 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 137 (32.78%) Security Cleared
2 87 (20.81%) SC Cleared
3 66 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (7.89%) DV Cleared
5 29 (6.94%) CCNP
6 22 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 21 (5.02%) Degree
8 19 (4.55%) CCNA
9 18 (4.31%) AWS Certification
10 13 (3.11%) CISSP
11 10 (2.39%) CCIE
12 8 (1.91%) JNCIA
12 8 (1.91%) JNCIP
12 8 (1.91%) JNCIS
13 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.44%) OCP
13 6 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (1.20%) CCSE
14 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.63%) QA
2 9 (2.15%) SLA
3 6 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (1.44%) NIST
4 5 (1.20%) NCSC
5 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) PSD2
7 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 62 (14.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (10.29%) Docker
3 32 (7.66%) VMware NSX
4 21 (5.02%) vSphere
5 18 (4.31%) Active Directory
5 18 (4.31%) Firmware
6 11 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.48%) NFS
10 2 (0.48%) Postfix
10 2 (0.48%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.48%) Varnish
11 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 133 (31.82%) Terraform
2 104 (24.88%) Kubernetes
3 80 (19.14%) Ansible
4 43 (10.29%) Grafana
5 38 (9.09%) FortiGate
6 30 (7.18%) Prometheus
7 20 (4.78%) Argo
8 19 (4.55%) Istio
8 19 (4.55%) vCenter Server
9 17 (4.07%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.39%) Puppet
11 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.20%) Kustomize
12 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.20%) SCCM
13 4 (0.96%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.96%) systemd
14 3 (0.72%) yum
15 2 (0.48%) CA Wily
15 2 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 174 (41.63%) F5
2 133 (31.82%) Cisco
3 73 (17.46%) VMware
4 63 (15.07%) Palo Alto
5 45 (10.77%) Splunk
6 41 (9.81%) Juniper
7 39 (9.33%) Microsoft
8 34 (8.13%) Google
9 33 (7.89%) Arista
10 31 (7.42%) Red Hat
10 31 (7.42%) SolarWinds
11 26 (6.22%) Aruba
12 24 (5.74%) Fortinet
13 22 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
14 18 (4.31%) Blue Coat
14 18 (4.31%) McAfee
14 18 (4.31%) NetApp
15 15 (3.59%) CheckPoint
15 15 (3.59%) Dynatrace
16 13 (3.11%) AppDynamics