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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 402 320
Rank change year-on-year +96 -82 +30
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 417 151 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.51% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 92 146
10th Percentile £406 £340 £356
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +0.49% -7.27%
75th Percentile £593 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £686 £719
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 45,278 29,786 33,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 90.49% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,840 18,586 21,275
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 2,823 1,710 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.46
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +88 379 £525 - 176
UK excluding London +84 290 £527 +1.40% 95
North of England +40 151 £535 +0.47% 39
North West +30 111 £537 -0.56% 19
London -24 101 £516 -8.22% 89
Work from Home +10 99 £529 +17.61% 63
Midlands -6 68 £529 +32.25% 6
West Midlands -10 67 £529 +32.25% 5
South East -15 66 £527 -6.27% 19
Yorkshire -12 32 £464 - 17
East of England +3 25 £525 +4.74% 4
Scotland +12 22 £413 -8.33% 8
South West -37 15 £675 +5.88% 17
North East -30 14 £575 +35.29% 3
East Midlands -21 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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
1 127 (30.46%) Azure
2 113 (27.10%) AWS
3 61 (14.63%) GCP
4 38 (9.11%) GitHub
5 28 (6.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 27 (6.47%) OCI
7 26 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 19 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (4.32%) OpenShift
12 16 (3.84%) Entra ID
13 13 (3.12%) SaaS
14 10 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.40%) Azure AKS
14 10 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.40%) Route 53
15 9 (2.16%) AWS Direct Connect
15 9 (2.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 203 (48.68%) Firewall
2 184 (44.12%) DNS
3 128 (30.70%) VPN
4 111 (26.62%) BGP
5 105 (25.18%) WAN
6 85 (20.38%) Network Security
7 78 (18.71%) BIG-IP
8 70 (16.79%) LAN
9 64 (15.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 62 (14.87%) OSPF
11 61 (14.63%) TCP/IP
12 57 (13.67%) VXLAN
13 55 (13.19%) SD-WAN
14 49 (11.75%) Ethernet VPN
15 48 (11.51%) DHCP
16 46 (11.03%) SSL
17 43 (10.31%) DMZ
17 43 (10.31%) HTTP
18 42 (10.07%) Multicast
19 39 (9.35%) 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 (10.55%) GitLab
2 28 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 23 (5.52%) Git
4 16 (3.84%) Fiddler
5 15 (3.60%) 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 (17.51%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.03%) Finance
3 59 (14.15%) Banking
4 41 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (8.39%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.60%) 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 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.96%) Law
12 4 (0.96%) Military
13 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.48%) German Language
Job Titles
1 147 (35.25%) Network Engineer
2 63 (15.11%) Senior
3 57 (13.67%) Security Engineer
4 50 (11.99%) Architect
5 41 (9.83%) Network Security Engineer
6 39 (9.35%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (9.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 35 (8.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (8.39%) Data Network Engineer
7 35 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 35 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (7.91%) Data Engineer
9 32 (7.67%) Web Engineer
10 31 (7.43%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 23 (5.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (5.04%) Network Architect
13 19 (4.56%) Senior Network Engineer
14 16 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.84%) IP Network Engineer
14 16 (3.84%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.47%) 802.1X
2 14 (3.36%) 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%) LDAP
10 3 (0.72%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 79 (18.94%) Data Centre
2 65 (15.59%) Cloud Native
3 45 (10.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (7.91%) Management Information System
5 31 (7.43%) PKI
6 30 (7.19%) Clustering
7 16 (3.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 15 (3.60%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.16%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.68%) IoT
13 6 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.44%) Distributed Applications
13 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (1.20%) Private Cloud
15 4 (0.96%) Digital Signage
15 4 (0.96%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
16 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 81 (19.42%) Linux
2 76 (18.23%) Windows
3 27 (6.47%) 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
1 132 (31.65%) CI/CD
2 122 (29.26%) DevOps
3 116 (27.82%) High Availability
4 107 (25.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (19.42%) Observability
7 64 (15.35%) Agile
7 64 (15.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 58 (13.91%) Migration
9 52 (12.47%) Zero Trust
10 51 (12.23%) Containerisation
11 49 (11.75%) Identity Access Management
12 44 (10.55%) Platform Engineering
13 43 (10.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 39 (9.35%) Disaster Recovery
14 39 (9.35%) Infrastructure Automation
15 36 (8.63%) Change Management
15 36 (8.63%) Roadmaps
16 35 (8.39%) ITIL
17 33 (7.91%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 112 (26.86%) Python
2 63 (15.11%) Bash
3 49 (11.75%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.15%) Java
5 15 (3.60%) Bicep
6 14 (3.36%) SQL
7 10 (2.40%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.68%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.68%) Perl
9 4 (0.96%) Go
10 3 (0.72%) C++
10 3 (0.72%) Ruby
11 2 (0.48%) Jython
12 1 (0.24%) Groovy
12 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 132 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 85 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 63 (15.11%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (6.95%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.24%) CCNP
6 23 (5.52%) Azure Certification
7 21 (5.04%) Degree
8 18 (4.32%) CCNA
9 17 (4.08%) AWS Certification
10 13 (3.12%) 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%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.64%) QA
2 10 (2.40%) 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 (15.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (9.83%) Docker
3 31 (7.43%) VMware NSX
4 19 (4.56%) vSphere
5 18 (4.32%) Active Directory
5 18 (4.32%) 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
1 131 (31.41%) Terraform
2 103 (24.70%) Kubernetes
3 80 (19.18%) Ansible
4 40 (9.59%) Grafana
5 37 (8.87%) FortiGate
6 31 (7.43%) Prometheus
7 19 (4.56%) Istio
8 18 (4.32%) Argo
9 17 (4.08%) Progress Chef
9 17 (4.08%) vCenter Server
10 10 (2.40%) Puppet
11 7 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.20%) Kustomize
13 5 (1.20%) SCCM
14 4 (0.96%) Cisco Prime
14 4 (0.96%) systemd
15 3 (0.72%) yum
16 2 (0.48%) CA Wily
16 2 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 174 (41.73%) F5
2 132 (31.65%) Cisco
3 72 (17.27%) VMware
4 61 (14.63%) Palo Alto
5 42 (10.07%) Splunk
6 40 (9.59%) Microsoft
7 36 (8.63%) Juniper
8 34 (8.15%) Google
9 30 (7.19%) Arista
9 30 (7.19%) SolarWinds
10 29 (6.95%) Red Hat
11 25 (6.00%) Aruba
12 23 (5.52%) Fortinet
13 20 (4.80%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (4.56%) NetApp
15 17 (4.08%) Blue Coat
15 17 (4.08%) McAfee
16 14 (3.36%) CheckPoint
16 14 (3.36%) Dynatrace
17 13 (3.12%) Oracle