Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract 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 65 57 79
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 +17
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 15 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.68% 1.42% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.66% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £484 - £403
25th Percentile £493 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.76% -22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £532 £569 £650
90th Percentile £535 £648 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £518 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +6.15% -11.36% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 774 664 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.58% 85.79% 90.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 411 745
10th Percentile £290 £325 £311
25th Percentile £400 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £611
90th Percentile £651 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 16
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.30 £19.19 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +35.12% -3.08%
75th Percentile £46.56 £37.50 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.04
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £18.07 £21.31
% change year-on-year +24.95% -15.22% +12.16%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds 0 15 £518 -26.07% 3
Load Balancing
Yorkshire

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (20.00%) GitHub
1 3 (20.00%) Route 53
1 3 (20.00%) Serverless
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) DNS
2 12 (80.00%) DMZ
2 12 (80.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 12 (80.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 12 (80.00%) Network Security
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (80.00%) Banking
1 12 (80.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Business Strategy
1 12 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Packer
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) F5
1 12 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Splunk