Network Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Network Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 45 -
Rank change year-on-year -40 - -
Contract jobs citing Network Load Balancing 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.26% 0.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 -
Yorkshire median daily rate - £500 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Network 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 737 315 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.71% 92.38% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 181 259
10th Percentile £316 £213 £382
25th Percentile £400 £381 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.07 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £29.38
90th Percentile - £20.90 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Network Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Network Load Balancing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Network Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Network 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 Network Load Balancing within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -45 2 - - 1
Network Load Balancing
Yorkshire

Network 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Business Development
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Feasibility Study
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) JVM Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kiali
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk