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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 405 339
Rank change year-on-year +98 -66 +13
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 416 152 238
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.51% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 92 145
10th Percentile £406 £340 £355
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £593 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £686 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £527 £519 £400
% change year-on-year +1.40% +29.81% -25.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £54.64 - -
25th Percentile £67.08 - -
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 45,250 29,801 33,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.48% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,843 18,616 21,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,819 1,703 1,838
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.31 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +13.33%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +91 378 £525 - 178
UK excluding London +66 288 £527 +1.40% 97
North of England +42 149 £535 +0.47% 35
North West +29 111 £537 -0.56% 15
London -29 102 £516 -8.22% 94
Work from Home +5 99 £529 +17.61% 58
South East -5 68 £527 -6.27% 19
Midlands -13 67 £529 +32.25% 7
West Midlands -1 66 £529 +32.25% 5
Yorkshire -15 30 £464 - 17
East of England +2 25 £525 +4.74% 5
Scotland +10 22 £413 -8.33% 10
South West -29 14 £675 +5.88% 17
North East -29 14 £575 +35.29% 3
East Midlands -17 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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
1 128 (30.77%) Azure
2 111 (26.68%) AWS
3 59 (14.18%) GCP
4 38 (9.13%) GitHub
5 27 (6.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 27 (6.49%) OCI
6 26 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (4.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (4.33%) OpenShift
11 16 (3.85%) Entra ID
12 13 (3.13%) SaaS
13 10 (2.40%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (2.16%) Route 53
15 8 (1.92%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 205 (49.28%) Firewall
2 185 (44.47%) DNS
3 127 (30.53%) VPN
4 112 (26.92%) BGP
5 107 (25.72%) WAN
6 86 (20.67%) Network Security
7 80 (19.23%) BIG-IP
8 72 (17.31%) LAN
9 64 (15.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 64 (15.38%) OSPF
10 60 (14.42%) TCP/IP
11 59 (14.18%) VXLAN
12 55 (13.22%) SD-WAN
13 51 (12.26%) Ethernet VPN
14 50 (12.02%) DHCP
15 46 (11.06%) SSL
16 43 (10.34%) DMZ
16 43 (10.34%) HTTP
17 42 (10.10%) Multicast
18 39 (9.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
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
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.48%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Metadata
6 1 (0.24%) Redis
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (10.58%) GitLab
2 28 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.29%) Git
4 16 (3.85%) Fiddler
5 15 (3.61%) 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 73 (17.55%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.83%) Finance
3 58 (13.94%) Banking
4 43 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (8.41%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.40%) Retail
9 8 (1.92%) Legal
10 7 (1.68%) Publishing
10 7 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.44%) Military
12 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.96%) Law
14 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.48%) German Language
Job Titles
1 146 (35.10%) Network Engineer
2 62 (14.90%) Senior
3 57 (13.70%) Security Engineer
4 51 (12.26%) Architect
5 41 (9.86%) Network Security Engineer
6 39 (9.38%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (9.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 35 (8.41%) Data Network Engineer
7 35 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 35 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 34 (8.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 33 (7.93%) Data Engineer
10 32 (7.69%) Web Engineer
11 31 (7.45%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 23 (5.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (5.05%) Network Architect
14 18 (4.33%) Senior Network Engineer
15 17 (4.09%) Network Specialist
16 16 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (3.85%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.97%) 802.1X
2 14 (3.37%) Kafka
3 12 (2.88%) REST
4 10 (2.40%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (1.92%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.92%) CSS
6 7 (1.68%) React
7 6 (1.44%) Middleware
7 6 (1.44%) Node.js
7 6 (1.44%) OAuth
7 6 (1.44%) OpenID
8 5 (1.20%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.20%) SAML
8 5 (1.20%) Spring
8 5 (1.20%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.96%) HTML
10 3 (0.72%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.72%) JSON
10 3 (0.72%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.72%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 80 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 63 (15.14%) Cloud Native
3 44 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (8.17%) Management Information System
5 32 (7.69%) Clustering
5 32 (7.69%) PKI
6 15 (3.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 15 (3.61%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.92%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.68%) IoT
10 6 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.44%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.96%) Digital Signage
11 4 (0.96%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (18.99%) Linux
2 78 (18.75%) Windows
3 27 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.88%) 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
1 131 (31.49%) CI/CD
2 123 (29.57%) DevOps
3 118 (28.37%) High Availability
4 106 (25.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (19.71%) Observability
7 64 (15.38%) Agile
7 64 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 58 (13.94%) Migration
9 53 (12.74%) Zero Trust
10 51 (12.26%) Containerisation
10 51 (12.26%) Identity Access Management
11 43 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 39 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
13 39 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
14 36 (8.65%) Change Management
14 36 (8.65%) Roadmaps
15 35 (8.41%) ITIL
16 32 (7.69%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 110 (26.44%) Python
2 62 (14.90%) Bash
3 49 (11.78%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.17%) Java
5 15 (3.61%) Bicep
6 14 (3.37%) SQL
7 9 (2.16%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.68%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.68%) Perl
9 3 (0.72%) C++
9 3 (0.72%) Go
9 3 (0.72%) Ruby
10 2 (0.48%) Jython
11 1 (0.24%) Groovy
11 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 135 (32.45%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 63 (15.14%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.25%) CCNP
6 23 (5.53%) Azure Certification
7 21 (5.05%) Degree
8 18 (4.33%) CCNA
9 17 (4.09%) AWS Certification
10 13 (3.13%) CISSP
11 8 (1.92%) CCIE
11 8 (1.92%) JNCIA
11 8 (1.92%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.68%) JNCIP
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%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.64%) QA
2 9 (2.16%) SLA
3 6 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (1.44%) NIST
4 3 (0.72%) NCSC
5 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) PSD2
6 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 63 (15.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (10.10%) Docker
3 31 (7.45%) VMware NSX
4 19 (4.57%) vSphere
5 18 (4.33%) Active Directory
5 18 (4.33%) Firmware
6 11 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.48%) NFS
9 2 (0.48%) Postfix
9 2 (0.48%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.48%) Varnish
10 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 129 (31.01%) Terraform
2 101 (24.28%) Kubernetes
3 79 (18.99%) Ansible
4 40 (9.62%) Grafana
5 39 (9.38%) FortiGate
6 30 (7.21%) Prometheus
7 18 (4.33%) Argo
8 17 (4.09%) Istio
8 17 (4.09%) Progress Chef
8 17 (4.09%) vCenter Server
9 10 (2.40%) Puppet
10 7 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.20%) Kustomize
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
1 176 (42.31%) F5
2 133 (31.97%) Cisco
3 72 (17.31%) VMware
4 61 (14.66%) Palo Alto
5 43 (10.34%) Splunk
6 39 (9.38%) Microsoft
7 37 (8.89%) Juniper
8 33 (7.93%) Google
9 32 (7.69%) SolarWinds
10 29 (6.97%) Arista
10 29 (6.97%) Red Hat
11 25 (6.01%) Aruba
12 23 (5.53%) Fortinet
13 22 (5.29%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (4.57%) NetApp
15 17 (4.09%) Blue Coat
15 17 (4.09%) McAfee
16 14 (3.37%) CheckPoint
17 13 (3.13%) AppDynamics
17 13 (3.13%) Oracle