Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Load Balancing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 34 51
Rank change year-on-year -48 +17 -4
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 17 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.09% 2.10% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.20% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -57.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 773 227 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.85% 95.38% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 140 217
10th Percentile £351 £220 £360
25th Percentile £413 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £14.44 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £15.34 £12.62 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -34.02% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile - £16.97 £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
% change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) GitHub
1 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) DNS
2 12 (70.59%) Network Security
3 11 (64.71%) DMZ
3 11 (64.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 11 (64.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (5.88%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.88%) SSL
4 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.88%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (70.59%) Banking
2 11 (64.71%) Investment Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix Expert
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Business Strategy
1 11 (64.71%) Design Patterns
2 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) High Availability
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) RBAC
4 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL
4 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.88%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (5.88%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Bash
1 5 (29.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CCA
1 1 (5.88%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
2 5 (29.41%) vSphere
3 1 (5.88%) XenApp
3 1 (5.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
1 5 (29.41%) Argo
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
1 5 (29.41%) vCenter Server
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (70.59%) F5
3 5 (29.41%) Pure Storage
4 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
4 4 (23.53%) Splunk
5 1 (5.88%) Citrix