HAProxy Job Trends

HAProxy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring HAProxy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 643 719 703
Rank change year-on-year +76 -16 +363
Permanent jobs citing HAProxy 6 16 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.024% 0.038%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 16
10th Percentile - £71,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £103,750 £72,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% +10.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +10.34% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

HAProxy falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,848 6,486 8,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.67% 9.58% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,205 3,856 6,682
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,510 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,881 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% - +4.55%

HAProxy
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing HAProxy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

HAProxy job vacancy trend in the UK

HAProxy
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HAProxy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HAProxy

HAProxy
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HAProxy within the UK over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +82 6 £107,500 +34.38% 4
London +49 6 £107,500 +26.47% 1

HAProxy
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 (100.00%) nginx
2 4 (66.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Akamai
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (66.67%) Cloudflare
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (66.67%) DHCP
2 4 (66.67%) ICMP
2 4 (66.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) NAS
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) SNMP
3 2 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (66.67%) Law
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
1 4 (66.67%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (66.67%) Mobile Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Fintech
2 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) BCP
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Go
2 4 (66.67%) Java
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Istio
2 2 (33.33%) linkerd
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
1 2 (33.33%) VMware