Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 79 34 49
Rank change year-on-year -45 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 18 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.06% 1.83% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 1.93% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.14%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £313
% change year-on-year +2.56% +56.00% -47.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 825 259 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.29% 94.87% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 165 246
10th Percentile £350 £209 £359
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +3.58% -0.84% -8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £14.55 £12.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.27 £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%
75th Percentile £23.70 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 £16.97 £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +11.78% +45.16% +45.81%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Sheffield -48 17 £550 - 1
Load Balancing
Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 5 (27.78%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (94.44%) DNS
2 12 (66.67%) Network Security
3 11 (61.11%) DMZ
3 11 (61.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 11 (61.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (11.11%) Firewall
5 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
5 1 (5.56%) SSL
5 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (66.67%) Banking
2 11 (61.11%) Investment Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix Expert
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Management Information System
2 5 (27.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Business Strategy
1 11 (61.11%) Design Patterns
2 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 6 (33.33%) High Availability
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) RBAC
6 1 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 1 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (5.56%) Problem Management
6 1 (5.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Bash
1 6 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CCA
1 1 (5.56%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) VMware NSX
2 5 (27.78%) vSphere
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) XenApp
3 1 (5.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Ansible
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 5 (27.78%) Argo
2 5 (27.78%) vCenter Server
3 4 (22.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (66.67%) F5
3 5 (27.78%) Pure Storage
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 4 (22.22%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix