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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 396 343
Rank change year-on-year +80 -53 +20
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 412 167 234
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.51% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.56% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 96 148
10th Percentile £401 £349 £350
25th Percentile £450 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £523
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -5.98% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £664 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £483 £475
% change year-on-year +8.81% +1.58% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
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 45,324 29,743 33,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.43% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,013 18,657 21,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 1,640 1,941
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.32 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.55% -42.44% +2.35%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +63 371 £525 -4.55% 101
UK excluding London +71 284 £525 +8.81% 58
North of England +34 146 £529 -5.96% 21
North West +17 108 £537 -12.33% 12
London -26 100 £513 -10.87% 47
Work from Home -3 99 £528 +17.33% 33
Midlands -7 68 £529 +28.24% 6
South East -9 68 £525 -4.55% 12
West Midlands -16 67 £529 +32.25% 6
Yorkshire -11 32 £500 +11.11% 8
Scotland +6 23 £413 -8.33% 5
East of England +3 23 £525 +4.74% 4
South West -31 13 £675 +5.88% 11
North East -28 12 £650 +52.94% 2
East Midlands -16 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 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 (1.46%) Confluence
2 5 (1.21%) Apache
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.73%) nginx
4 3 (0.73%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 122 (29.61%) Azure
2 108 (26.21%) AWS
3 59 (14.32%) GCP
4 43 (10.44%) GitHub
5 28 (6.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 27 (6.55%) OCI
7 26 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (5.34%) OpenShift
9 20 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (3.64%) Entra ID
13 14 (3.40%) SaaS
14 9 (2.18%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.18%) Route 53
15 8 (1.94%) PaaS
15 8 (1.94%) Serverless
16 7 (1.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 203 (49.27%) Firewall
2 181 (43.93%) DNS
3 125 (30.34%) VPN
4 114 (27.67%) BGP
5 108 (26.21%) WAN
6 84 (20.39%) Network Security
7 79 (19.17%) BIG-IP
8 72 (17.48%) LAN
9 67 (16.26%) OSPF
10 60 (14.56%) TCP/IP
10 60 (14.56%) VXLAN
11 59 (14.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 56 (13.59%) SD-WAN
13 51 (12.38%) Ethernet VPN
14 49 (11.89%) Multicast
15 48 (11.65%) DHCP
16 46 (11.17%) SSL
17 43 (10.44%) HTTP
18 40 (9.71%) DMZ
19 35 (8.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.67%) Relational Database
2 7 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.70%) Power BI
3 6 (1.46%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.73%) Big Data
4 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.73%) HBase
4 3 (0.73%) MySQL
4 3 (0.73%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.49%) Redis
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Metadata
6 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (9.71%) GitLab
2 36 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.37%) Fiddler
3 18 (4.37%) Git
4 16 (3.88%) JIRA
5 5 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.73%) JUnit
6 3 (0.73%) Maven
6 3 (0.73%) Selenium
7 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.49%) Introscope
7 2 (0.49%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.24%) Ant
8 1 (0.24%) Moq
8 1 (0.24%) MSI
8 1 (0.24%) NUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Serilog
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 72 (17.48%) Finance
2 69 (16.75%) Social Skills
3 58 (14.08%) Banking
4 39 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 35 (8.50%) Investment Banking
6 28 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.40%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.43%) Retail
9 7 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.70%) Publishing
10 6 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.46%) Military
10 6 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.21%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.73%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.49%) Automotive
13 2 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 148 (35.92%) Network Engineer
2 57 (13.83%) Senior
3 56 (13.59%) Security Engineer
4 55 (13.35%) Architect
5 40 (9.71%) Network Security Engineer
6 39 (9.47%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (9.47%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 35 (8.50%) Data Network Engineer
8 34 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (8.25%) Web Engineer
9 33 (8.01%) Data Engineer
10 32 (7.77%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (7.52%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 29 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (5.34%) Network Architect
13 22 (5.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.13%) Lead
14 17 (4.13%) Network Specialist
15 16 (3.88%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 16 (3.88%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.04%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (2.91%) Kafka
3 12 (2.91%) REST
4 8 (1.94%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.94%) CSS
5 7 (1.70%) Node.js
6 6 (1.46%) Middleware
6 6 (1.46%) React
7 5 (1.21%) OAuth
7 5 (1.21%) Spring
7 5 (1.21%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.97%) HTML
8 4 (0.97%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.97%) OpenID
8 4 (0.97%) Swagger
9 3 (0.73%) JSON
9 3 (0.73%) LDAP
9 3 (0.73%) SAML
9 3 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (20.87%) Data Centre
2 64 (15.53%) Cloud Native
3 46 (11.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (7.77%) PKI
5 31 (7.52%) Clustering
5 31 (7.52%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 15 (3.64%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.70%) IoT
8 7 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.97%) Digital Signage
12 3 (0.73%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.73%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (18.93%) Windows
2 74 (17.96%) Linux
3 27 (6.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.46%) Unix
6 2 (0.49%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.49%) VMS
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.24%) CentOS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (31.55%) CI/CD
2 122 (29.61%) DevOps
3 121 (29.37%) High Availability
4 103 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (19.66%) Observability
7 61 (14.81%) Agile
8 59 (14.32%) Migration
9 56 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 54 (13.11%) Containerisation
11 53 (12.86%) Zero Trust
12 48 (11.65%) Identity Access Management
13 40 (9.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 39 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
14 39 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
15 35 (8.50%) Cloud Security
15 35 (8.50%) Infrastructure Automation
16 34 (8.25%) ITIL
17 33 (8.01%) Change Management
17 33 (8.01%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 110 (26.70%) Python
2 61 (14.81%) Bash
3 43 (10.44%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.25%) Java
5 15 (3.64%) Bicep
5 15 (3.64%) SQL
6 8 (1.94%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.21%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.97%) Perl
9 3 (0.73%) C++
9 3 (0.73%) Go
9 3 (0.73%) Groovy
9 3 (0.73%) Ruby
10 2 (0.49%) Jython
11 1 (0.24%) C#
11 1 (0.24%) R
11 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 132 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 83 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 68 (16.50%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (8.01%) DV Cleared
5 31 (7.52%) CCNP
6 20 (4.85%) Degree
7 19 (4.61%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.61%) CCNA
8 16 (3.88%) AWS Certification
9 13 (3.16%) CISSP
10 10 (2.43%) CCIE
11 8 (1.94%) JNCIA
11 8 (1.94%) JNCIP
11 8 (1.94%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.70%) OCP
12 7 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (1.21%) CCSE
13 5 (1.21%) CCSM
13 5 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.67%) QA
2 9 (2.18%) SLA
3 6 (1.46%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.21%) NCSC
4 5 (1.21%) NIST
5 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.49%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.49%) 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 61 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (9.95%) Docker
3 36 (8.74%) VMware NSX
4 24 (5.83%) vSphere
5 18 (4.37%) Firmware
6 17 (4.13%) Active Directory
7 11 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.49%) NFS
10 2 (0.49%) Postfix
10 2 (0.49%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.49%) Varnish
11 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 129 (31.31%) Terraform
2 103 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 81 (19.66%) Ansible
4 45 (10.92%) Grafana
5 38 (9.22%) FortiGate
6 29 (7.04%) Prometheus
7 24 (5.83%) Argo
8 23 (5.58%) vCenter Server
9 16 (3.88%) Istio
10 15 (3.64%) Progress Chef
11 10 (2.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
12 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.97%) SCCM
12 4 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.97%) systemd
13 3 (0.73%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.73%) yum
14 2 (0.49%) Avamar
14 2 (0.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 175 (42.48%) F5
2 135 (32.77%) Cisco
3 74 (17.96%) VMware
4 66 (16.02%) Palo Alto
5 48 (11.65%) Splunk
6 42 (10.19%) Juniper
7 36 (8.74%) Arista
8 34 (8.25%) Microsoft
9 33 (8.01%) Red Hat
10 32 (7.77%) Google
11 31 (7.52%) SolarWinds
12 26 (6.31%) Aruba
12 26 (6.31%) Fortinet
13 22 (5.34%) Extreme Networks
14 20 (4.85%) McAfee
15 19 (4.61%) Blue Coat
16 18 (4.37%) NetApp
17 15 (3.64%) CheckPoint
17 15 (3.64%) Dynatrace
17 15 (3.64%) Pure Storage