HAProxy Job Trends

HAProxy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring HAProxy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 760 761
Rank change year-on-year +91 +1 +345
Permanent jobs citing HAProxy 7 36 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.046% 0.027%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.13% 0.50% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 22 11
10th Percentile £103,875 £71,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £104,063 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £108,750 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.94% +23.08% -16.13%
75th Percentile £114,063 £87,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £114,625 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +23.08% +8.33%

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 5,370 7,268 8,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.86% 9.31% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,167 4,455 7,234
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,525
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% -7.08% +4.35%

HAProxy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HAProxy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HAProxy 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 18 September 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 +91 6 £107,500 +34.38% 1
London +64 6 £107,500 +26.47%

HAProxy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) nginx
2 4 (57.14%) Traefik
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
3 1 (14.29%) Office Communications Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Akamai
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (57.14%) Cloudflare
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) DHCP
2 4 (57.14%) ICMP
2 4 (57.14%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) NAS
3 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) SAN
3 2 (28.57%) SNMP
3 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) GGSN
4 1 (14.29%) IPv4
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) SMPP
4 1 (14.29%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (57.14%) Law
3 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
1 4 (57.14%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Networks
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (57.14%) Mobile Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (85.71%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Fintech
2 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) SDLC
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Chaos Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bash
2 6 (85.71%) Python
3 4 (57.14%) Go
3 4 (57.14%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
2 2 (28.57%) linkerd
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) F5
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft