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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 397 337
Rank change year-on-year +71 -60 +1
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 403 153 238
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.51% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 92 141
10th Percentile £400 £326 £363
25th Percentile £450 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £686 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £66.50 - -
25th Percentile £80.63 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - -

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 46,112 29,840 32,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.46% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,098 18,520 20,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £312
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,038 1,780 1,507
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.89% -47.37% +8.65%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +71 362 £525 +1.11% 108
UK excluding London +53 268 £525 +16.67% 67
North of England +32 144 £519 -0.19% 14
London -25 107 £520 -8.37% 64
North West +17 105 £535 +2.88% 7
Work from Home -4 102 £530 +17.67% 44
Midlands -25 62 £529 +32.25% 9
West Midlands -14 61 £529 +32.25% 9
South East -30 44 £530 -3.73% 16
Yorkshire -21 30 £474 - 6
East of England -3 28 £525 +4.74% 5
Scotland -20 23 £419 -6.94% 11
South West -27 19 £675 -10.00% 12
North East -33 15 £500 +2.56% 1
East Midlands -17 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 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.99%) Apache
2 4 (0.99%) Confluence
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.74%) nginx
3 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.74%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.50%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.50%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 123 (30.52%) Azure
2 110 (27.30%) AWS
3 60 (14.89%) GCP
4 40 (9.93%) GitHub
5 29 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (6.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 22 (5.46%) OCI
9 21 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (4.71%) Entra ID
11 17 (4.22%) OpenShift
12 14 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (3.23%) SaaS
14 12 (2.98%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.73%) Serverless
16 10 (2.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 10 (2.48%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 195 (48.39%) Firewall
2 174 (43.18%) DNS
3 128 (31.76%) VPN
4 93 (23.08%) BGP
5 91 (22.58%) Network Security
5 91 (22.58%) WAN
6 64 (15.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 63 (15.63%) TCP/IP
8 61 (15.14%) BIG-IP
9 52 (12.90%) LAN
9 52 (12.90%) SD-WAN
10 46 (11.41%) SSL
11 44 (10.92%) OSPF
12 42 (10.42%) HTTP
13 40 (9.93%) VXLAN
14 39 (9.68%) DMZ
14 39 (9.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 38 (9.43%) Wi-Fi
16 37 (9.18%) Multicast
17 36 (8.93%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.47%) Relational Database
2 7 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.74%) Power BI
3 6 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.99%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.74%) Big Data
5 3 (0.74%) EDRMS
5 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.74%) HBase
5 3 (0.74%) MySQL
5 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.25%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (11.17%) GitLab
2 25 (6.20%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.21%) Git
4 14 (3.47%) Fiddler
5 12 (2.98%) JIRA
6 3 (0.74%) JUnit
6 3 (0.74%) Maven
6 3 (0.74%) Selenium
6 3 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.50%) Introscope
7 2 (0.50%) MSI
7 2 (0.50%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.25%) Ant
8 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 82 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 74 (18.36%) Finance
3 59 (14.64%) Banking
4 39 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 32 (7.94%) Investment Banking
6 17 (4.22%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.48%) Legal
8 10 (2.48%) Retail
9 7 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.49%) Publishing
11 4 (0.99%) Law
12 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Automotive
13 2 (0.50%) German Language
13 2 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 131 (32.51%) Network Engineer
2 61 (15.14%) Senior
3 47 (11.66%) Security Engineer
4 46 (11.41%) Architect
5 44 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (8.93%) Cisco Engineer
6 36 (8.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 36 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 34 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (8.44%) Network Security Engineer
8 29 (7.20%) Data Network Engineer
9 28 (6.95%) Data Engineer
10 27 (6.70%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 27 (6.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (6.70%) Web Engineer
11 19 (4.71%) Network Architect
12 18 (4.47%) Software Engineer
13 17 (4.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 16 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (33.00%) Terraform
2 14 (3.47%) REST
3 12 (2.98%) ARM Templates
3 12 (2.98%) Kafka
4 10 (2.48%) 802.1X
5 9 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (1.99%) CSS
7 7 (1.74%) React
8 6 (1.49%) Node.js
8 6 (1.49%) OAuth
9 5 (1.24%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (1.24%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.24%) OpenID
9 5 (1.24%) SAML
9 5 (1.24%) Spring
9 5 (1.24%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.99%) HTML
11 3 (0.74%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.74%) JSON
11 3 (0.74%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 67 (16.63%) Data Centre
2 62 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 49 (12.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (8.68%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 15 (3.72%) PKI
7 14 (3.47%) Clustering
7 14 (3.47%) Security Posture
8 13 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.23%) IoT
10 8 (1.99%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.74%) Distributed Applications
12 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.49%) Digital Signage
13 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.99%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (20.84%) Linux
2 60 (14.89%) Windows
3 25 (6.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.23%) Unix
6 8 (1.99%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.74%) CentOS
8 2 (0.50%) Android
8 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (33.75%) CI/CD
2 135 (33.50%) DevOps
3 113 (28.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (24.07%) High Availability
5 74 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (17.37%) Agile
7 69 (17.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 61 (15.14%) Observability
9 54 (13.40%) Migration
10 53 (13.15%) Containerisation
10 53 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
11 50 (12.41%) Zero Trust
12 45 (11.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 41 (10.17%) Disaster Recovery
14 38 (9.43%) Infrastructure Automation
15 37 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (8.68%) Roadmaps
17 34 (8.44%) Change Management
18 32 (7.94%) Software Engineering
19 31 (7.69%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 116 (28.78%) Python
2 63 (15.63%) Bash
3 57 (14.14%) PowerShell
4 35 (8.68%) Java
5 20 (4.96%) Bicep
6 15 (3.72%) SQL
7 10 (2.48%) Perl
7 10 (2.48%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.74%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.99%) Go
10 3 (0.74%) C++
11 2 (0.50%) Jython
11 2 (0.50%) Ruby
12 1 (0.25%) C#
12 1 (0.25%) Groovy
12 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 125 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 97 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 49 (12.16%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (6.45%) CCNP
5 25 (6.20%) Azure Certification
6 22 (5.46%) Degree
7 20 (4.96%) DV Cleared
8 18 (4.47%) AWS Certification
9 17 (4.22%) CCNA
10 13 (3.23%) CISSP
11 10 (2.48%) CCIE
11 10 (2.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.24%) CCSE
14 5 (1.24%) CCSM
15 4 (0.99%) OCP
15 4 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
16 3 (0.74%) VCAP
17 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.48%) QA
2 8 (1.99%) SLA
3 5 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.24%) NIST
4 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.50%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.50%) NCSC
4 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.25%) PSD2
5 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 70 (17.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (9.68%) Docker
3 31 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 23 (5.71%) Active Directory
5 22 (5.46%) vSphere
6 18 (4.47%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (3.97%) Firmware
8 11 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (1.99%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.25%) KVM
12 1 (0.25%) NFS
12 1 (0.25%) Postfix
12 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 103 (25.56%) Kubernetes
2 87 (21.59%) Ansible
3 37 (9.18%) Grafana
4 30 (7.44%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.21%) Istio
6 20 (4.96%) FortiGate
6 20 (4.96%) vCenter Server
7 16 (3.97%) Progress Chef
8 15 (3.72%) Argo
9 10 (2.48%) Puppet
10 7 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.49%) Cisco Prime
11 6 (1.49%) SCCM
12 5 (1.24%) Kustomize
12 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.24%) PowerCLI
13 4 (0.99%) Packer
13 4 (0.99%) systemd
14 3 (0.74%) SCOM
14 3 (0.74%) yum
Vendors
1 149 (36.97%) F5
2 114 (28.29%) Cisco
3 78 (19.35%) VMware
4 62 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 45 (11.17%) Microsoft
6 31 (7.69%) Google
7 28 (6.95%) Arista
7 28 (6.95%) Red Hat
8 25 (6.20%) Aruba
9 24 (5.96%) Fortinet
9 24 (5.96%) Splunk
10 19 (4.71%) Juniper
11 17 (4.22%) NetApp
12 15 (3.72%) Blue Coat
12 15 (3.72%) McAfee
12 15 (3.72%) SolarWinds
13 14 (3.47%) CheckPoint
13 14 (3.47%) Dynatrace
14 12 (2.98%) AppDynamics
15 11 (2.73%) Infoblox