Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GLBP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GLBP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 902 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GLBP 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.066% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £80,000 - -
25th Percentile £80,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile £87,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

GLBP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,593 15,966 20,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 15.42% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,473 8,149 11,832
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,978
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.13% +2.17%

GLBP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GLBP in the UK

GLBP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GLBP.

Salary trend for GLBP in the UK

GLBP
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GLBP within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 - 9 £85,000 -
London - 8 £85,000 -
Work from Home - 1 £80,000 -
East of England - 1 £80,000 -
UK excluding London - 1 £80,000 -

GLBP
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Direct Connect
2 5 (55.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
1 9 (100.00%) DHCP
1 9 (100.00%) DNS
1 9 (100.00%) DWDM
1 9 (100.00%) IGRP
1 9 (100.00%) MPLS
1 9 (100.00%) OSPF
1 9 (100.00%) WAN
2 8 (88.89%) EIGRP
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 8 (88.89%) IPsec
2 8 (88.89%) LAN
2 8 (88.89%) Multicast
2 8 (88.89%) SNMP
2 8 (88.89%) VPN
3 7 (77.78%) DMVPN
3 7 (77.78%) HTTP
3 7 (77.78%) HTTPS
3 7 (77.78%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) WLAN
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Architect
2 7 (77.78%) Systems Architect
3 5 (55.56%) Senior
3 5 (55.56%) Senior Architect
3 5 (55.56%) Senior Systems Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Core Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Network Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Network Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) 802.1X
2 7 (77.78%) HTML
2 7 (77.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Data Centre
2 5 (55.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
1 8 (88.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Network Management
1 9 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 9 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Load Balancing
2 8 (88.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 8 (88.89%) Two-Factor Authentication
3 7 (77.78%) Mentoring
3 7 (77.78%) Open Source
3 7 (77.78%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Network Design
4 1 (11.11%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
1 8 (88.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) CCNA
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Progress Chef
1 8 (88.89%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Arista
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) Juniper
2 8 (88.89%) Fortinet
2 8 (88.89%) Tufin
3 5 (55.56%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Riverbed