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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 384 376
Rank change year-on-year +66 -8 -10
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 405 168 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.52% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.57% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 101 141
10th Percentile £400 £363 £350
25th Percentile £443 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £675
90th Percentile £633 £650 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
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 45,026 29,407 35,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.11% 90.34% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,974 18,494 23,016
10th Percentile £325 £300 £301
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,654 1,554 2,302
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.37 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.20
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.30% -4.51%

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 18 July 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 18 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 15 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 18 July 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 +67 367 £525 - 50
UK excluding London +50 281 £525 +16.67% 34
North of England +24 146 £527 +8.00% 6
North West +16 109 £537 -4.53% 2
Work from Home -10 96 £528 +17.33% 14
London -17 95 £500 -9.09% 22
Midlands -7 69 £515 +28.63% 2
West Midlands -11 68 £515 +28.63% 2
South East -4 67 £525 -4.55% 15
Yorkshire -15 31 £464 +3.11% 4
East of England +2 25 £525 +4.74% 4
Scotland +2 20 £413 -8.33% 2
North East -22 12 £650 +52.94%
South West -33 12 £663 +23.26% 3
East Midlands -13 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 (1.48%) Confluence
2 4 (0.99%) Apache
2 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.74%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.49%) nginx
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (28.64%) Azure
2 105 (25.93%) AWS
3 53 (13.09%) GCP
4 41 (10.12%) GitHub
5 26 (6.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 26 (6.42%) OCI
6 24 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (5.19%) OpenShift
8 19 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.46%) SaaS
12 13 (3.21%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.22%) PaaS
15 8 (1.98%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.98%) Route 53
16 7 (1.73%) Power Platform
16 7 (1.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 200 (49.38%) Firewall
2 183 (45.19%) DNS
3 121 (29.88%) VPN
4 113 (27.90%) BGP
5 108 (26.67%) WAN
6 86 (21.23%) Network Security
7 81 (20.00%) BIG-IP
8 72 (17.78%) LAN
9 64 (15.80%) OSPF
10 60 (14.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 57 (14.07%) VXLAN
12 56 (13.83%) TCP/IP
13 54 (13.33%) SD-WAN
14 50 (12.35%) Ethernet VPN
15 48 (11.85%) Multicast
16 46 (11.36%) DHCP
17 45 (11.11%) SSL
18 42 (10.37%) DMZ
19 40 (9.88%) HTTP
20 36 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.72%) Relational Database
2 7 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.73%) Power BI
3 6 (1.48%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.74%) Big Data
4 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.74%) HBase
4 3 (0.74%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.49%) Redis
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.25%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
6 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (9.14%) GitLab
2 34 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 19 (4.69%) Fiddler
4 16 (3.95%) JIRA
5 15 (3.70%) Git
6 3 (0.74%) JUnit
6 3 (0.74%) Selenium
6 3 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.49%) Introscope
7 2 (0.49%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.25%) Ant
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Moq
8 1 (0.25%) NUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Serilog
General
1 65 (16.05%) Finance
2 64 (15.80%) Social Skills
3 55 (13.58%) Banking
4 40 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 35 (8.64%) Investment Banking
6 24 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.21%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.47%) Retail
9 8 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.48%) Military
10 6 (1.48%) Publishing
10 6 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.23%) Legal
12 3 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.49%) Automotive
14 1 (0.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 148 (36.54%) Network Engineer
2 56 (13.83%) Security Engineer
3 55 (13.58%) Architect
4 54 (13.33%) Senior
5 41 (10.12%) Network Security Engineer
6 40 (9.88%) Cisco Engineer
6 40 (9.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 36 (8.89%) Data Network Engineer
7 36 (8.89%) Web Engineer
8 34 (8.40%) Data Engineer
9 33 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (7.90%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 31 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (5.43%) Network Architect
13 22 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.44%) Lead
15 17 (4.20%) Network Specialist
16 16 (3.95%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 16 (3.95%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.16%) 802.1X
2 16 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (2.96%) Kafka
4 10 (2.47%) REST
5 7 (1.73%) Middleware
5 7 (1.73%) Node.js
6 6 (1.48%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.48%) CSS
7 4 (0.99%) OAuth
7 4 (0.99%) React
7 4 (0.99%) Spring
7 4 (0.99%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.99%) Swagger
8 3 (0.74%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (0.74%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.74%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (0.74%) ModSecurity
8 3 (0.74%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.74%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.74%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.23%) Data Centre
2 59 (14.57%) Cloud Native
3 44 (10.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (7.65%) Clustering
4 31 (7.65%) PKI
5 29 (7.16%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 14 (3.46%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.47%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.73%) IoT
10 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.23%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.99%) Digital Signage
11 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.74%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 75 (18.52%) Windows
2 62 (15.31%) Linux
3 25 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.99%) Unix
7 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.49%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.49%) VMS
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (30.12%) CI/CD
2 117 (28.89%) DevOps
3 116 (28.64%) High Availability
4 93 (22.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (18.77%) Observability
7 60 (14.81%) Migration
8 57 (14.07%) Agile
9 56 (13.83%) Containerisation
10 52 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 48 (11.85%) Zero Trust
12 42 (10.37%) Identity Access Management
13 38 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 34 (8.40%) Change Management
15 32 (7.90%) Infrastructure Automation
15 32 (7.90%) Performance Optimisation
15 32 (7.90%) Platform Engineering
16 31 (7.65%) Cloud Security
16 31 (7.65%) Disaster Recovery
16 31 (7.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 107 (26.42%) Python
2 57 (14.07%) Bash
3 37 (9.14%) PowerShell
4 32 (7.90%) Java
5 14 (3.46%) SQL
6 12 (2.96%) Bicep
7 7 (1.73%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.74%) Go
8 3 (0.74%) Groovy
8 3 (0.74%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.74%) Perl
8 3 (0.74%) Ruby
9 2 (0.49%) Jython
10 1 (0.25%) C#
10 1 (0.25%) C++
10 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 129 (31.85%) Security Cleared
2 81 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 67 (16.54%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (7.90%) DV Cleared
5 30 (7.41%) CCNP
6 20 (4.94%) Degree
7 19 (4.69%) CCNA
8 17 (4.20%) Azure Certification
9 15 (3.70%) AWS Certification
10 12 (2.96%) CISSP
11 8 (1.98%) CCIE
11 8 (1.98%) JNCIA
11 8 (1.98%) JNCIP
11 8 (1.98%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.73%) OCP
12 7 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (1.23%) CCSE
13 5 (1.23%) CCSM
13 5 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.72%) QA
2 9 (2.22%) SLA
3 6 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.23%) NCSC
5 4 (0.99%) NIST
6 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.49%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) GDPR
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 61 (15.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (9.88%) VMware NSX
3 38 (9.38%) Docker
4 28 (6.91%) vSphere
5 18 (4.44%) Firmware
6 15 (3.70%) Active Directory
7 11 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.49%) NFS
10 2 (0.49%) Postfix
10 2 (0.49%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.49%) Varnish
11 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 121 (29.88%) Terraform
2 97 (23.95%) Kubernetes
3 79 (19.51%) Ansible
4 46 (11.36%) Grafana
5 38 (9.38%) FortiGate
6 29 (7.16%) Prometheus
7 25 (6.17%) Argo
7 25 (6.17%) vCenter Server
8 13 (3.21%) Progress Chef
9 12 (2.96%) Istio
10 9 (2.22%) Puppet
11 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.23%) SCCM
12 4 (0.99%) Cisco Prime
13 3 (0.74%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.74%) systemd
13 3 (0.74%) yum
14 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.49%) Avamar
Vendors
1 175 (43.21%) F5
2 134 (33.09%) Cisco
3 77 (19.01%) VMware
4 63 (15.56%) Palo Alto
5 49 (12.10%) Splunk
6 43 (10.62%) Juniper
7 34 (8.40%) Arista
8 31 (7.65%) Red Hat
8 31 (7.65%) SolarWinds
9 30 (7.41%) Google
10 29 (7.16%) Microsoft
11 26 (6.42%) Aruba
12 24 (5.93%) Fortinet
13 22 (5.43%) Extreme Networks
14 21 (5.19%) McAfee
15 20 (4.94%) Blue Coat
16 18 (4.44%) NetApp
17 17 (4.20%) Pure Storage
18 15 (3.70%) CheckPoint
18 15 (3.70%) Dynatrace