Load Balancing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Load Balancing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 610 547 617
Rank change year-on-year -63 +70 -123
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 309 505 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.49% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.51% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 219 244 526
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,000 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +11.61%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £91,500 £94,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Load Balancing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing.

Salary trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 -38 272 £60,000 +3.00% 65
UK excluding London -47 213 £55,000 - 39
Work from Home +73 148 £62,500 +4.17% 29
London +81 82 £80,000 - 25
Midlands +23 67 £52,500 -12.50% 12
West Midlands +27 55 £52,500 -17.97% 8
South East -3 37 £55,000 - 9
North of England -10 34 £60,000 +25.03% 7
South West -14 28 £45,000 +4.65% 6
Scotland -66 18 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Yorkshire +72 17 £61,250 +44.12% 2
East of England +2 16 £52,500 -12.50% 5
North West -36 15 £60,000 +20.00% 5
East Midlands -6 12 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Wales +10 9 £65,000 -
Northern Ireland +20 4 - -
North East -15 2 £85,000 +126.67%

Load Balancing
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:

Application Platforms
1 49 (15.86%) WebLogic
2 32 (10.36%) IIS
3 26 (8.41%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.59%) Skype for Business
5 5 (1.62%) Apache
5 5 (1.62%) nginx
5 5 (1.62%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.32%) Confluence
7 1 (0.32%) Moodle
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Weka
Business Applications
1 46 (14.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.32%) HFM
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 197 (63.75%) Azure
2 145 (46.93%) AWS
3 48 (15.53%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (14.89%) Amazon SQS
5 45 (14.56%) GCP
6 29 (9.39%) SaaS
7 27 (8.74%) Amazon S3
8 26 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (7.12%) IaaS
10 21 (6.80%) PaaS
11 19 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (4.85%) OneDrive
14 12 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (3.88%) Serverless
15 11 (3.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 10 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (2.91%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 126 (40.78%) Firewall
2 122 (39.48%) DNS
3 104 (33.66%) WAN
4 81 (26.21%) BGP
5 80 (25.89%) TCP/IP
6 76 (24.60%) VPN
7 66 (21.36%) SSL
8 65 (21.04%) LAN
9 42 (13.59%) Wireless
10 35 (11.33%) MPLS
10 35 (11.33%) Network Security
11 29 (9.39%) Internet
12 28 (9.06%) DHCP
13 27 (8.74%) OSPF
14 25 (8.09%) SAN
14 25 (8.09%) SD-WAN
15 20 (6.47%) BIG-IP
16 18 (5.83%) IPsec
16 18 (5.83%) SNMP
17 17 (5.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (19.42%) SQL Server
2 59 (19.09%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (17.48%) Relational Database
4 53 (17.15%) RDBMS
5 48 (15.53%) Oracle Database
6 31 (10.03%) MySQL
7 15 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (4.85%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.91%) Redis
10 7 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.94%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.94%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.62%) DB2
12 5 (1.62%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.62%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (0.97%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.97%) Power BI
14 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (4.53%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.21%) Git
3 9 (2.91%) GitLab
4 5 (1.62%) GDB
5 4 (1.29%) JIRA
5 4 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.97%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.65%) git-flow
7 2 (0.65%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.65%) Selenium
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) JProfiler
8 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.32%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
General
1 106 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.62%) Finance
3 28 (9.06%) Law
4 27 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.85%) Telecoms
6 14 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (4.53%) Retail
7 7 (2.27%) Advertising
8 6 (1.94%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.62%) Legal
10 4 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Banking
12 2 (0.65%) Games
12 2 (0.65%) Military
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (28.16%) Senior
2 80 (25.89%) Architect
3 55 (17.80%) Lead
4 52 (16.83%) Solutions Architect
5 50 (16.18%) Network Engineer
6 46 (14.89%) Lead Architect
6 46 (14.89%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 30 (9.71%) Administrator
7 30 (9.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (8.41%) Systems Engineer
9 25 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (6.80%) Senior Network Engineer
11 20 (6.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 16 (5.18%) Senior DevOps
12 16 (5.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.85%) Linux Engineer
13 15 (4.85%) Systems Administrator
14 14 (4.53%) Systems Architect
15 12 (3.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.56%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.89%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (14.89%) Spring Boot
2 27 (8.74%) REST
3 25 (8.09%) WebRTC
4 17 (5.50%) 802.1X
4 17 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (3.88%) .NET
6 11 (3.56%) HTML
7 10 (3.24%) SAML
7 10 (3.24%) YAML
8 8 (2.59%) XML
9 7 (2.27%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.62%) Django
10 5 (1.62%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.62%) Flask
10 5 (1.62%) Kafka
10 5 (1.62%) LAMP
10 5 (1.62%) WebSphere MQ
11 4 (1.29%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (21.36%) Public Cloud
2 55 (17.80%) Data Centre
3 47 (15.21%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (13.27%) Clustering
5 14 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.53%) PKI
6 12 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (3.24%) Client/Server
7 10 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.91%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.59%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.59%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.27%) IoT
11 5 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.62%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.97%) Replication
12 3 (0.97%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.65%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (42.39%) Linux
2 74 (23.95%) Windows
3 68 (22.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (12.62%) Windows Server
5 15 (4.85%) Unix
6 12 (3.88%) Windows 10
7 10 (3.24%) CentOS
7 10 (3.24%) Ubuntu
7 10 (3.24%) Windows 7
8 8 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (1.62%) Debian
10 5 (1.62%) Solaris
11 4 (1.29%) Android
11 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.65%) VMS
12 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (26.86%) Agile
2 79 (25.57%) Migration
2 79 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (20.71%) Open Source
4 62 (20.06%) DevOps
5 53 (17.15%) High Availability
6 52 (16.83%) Project Management
7 51 (16.50%) TOGAF
8 49 (15.86%) SDLC
9 48 (15.53%) Collaborative Working
9 48 (15.53%) Data Migration
9 48 (15.53%) Scrum
10 47 (15.21%) CI/CD
10 47 (15.21%) Cloud Operations
10 47 (15.21%) Kanban
10 47 (15.21%) Re-Platforming
11 46 (14.89%) Actionable Insight
11 46 (14.89%) ArchiMate
11 46 (14.89%) Systems Engineering
12 43 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.15%) PowerShell
2 52 (16.83%) SQL
3 47 (15.21%) Python
4 26 (8.41%) Bash
5 17 (5.50%) T-SQL
6 16 (5.18%) C#
7 14 (4.53%) Java
7 14 (4.53%) PHP
8 12 (3.88%) C
8 12 (3.88%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.56%) Perl
10 8 (2.59%) Go
11 6 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.97%) Bicep
12 3 (0.97%) C++
13 2 (0.65%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.65%) Lua
13 2 (0.65%) Ruby
13 2 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 100 (32.36%) Security Cleared
2 87 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 57 (18.45%) AWS Certification
4 49 (15.86%) Azure Certification
5 48 (15.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 44 (14.24%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (9.71%) CCNP
8 29 (9.39%) CCNA
9 27 (8.74%) Degree
10 16 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (3.24%) DV Cleared
12 7 (2.27%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.62%) RHCA
13 5 (1.62%) RHCE
13 5 (1.62%) RHCSA
13 5 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.29%) CCIE
14 4 (1.29%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.97%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.91%) QA
2 7 (2.27%) ISO 13485
2 7 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.29%) NIST
4 4 (1.29%) SLA
5 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 63 (20.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (13.92%) Active Directory
3 42 (13.59%) Docker
4 31 (10.03%) VMware ESXi
5 27 (8.74%) vSphere
6 16 (5.18%) VMware NSX
7 10 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.27%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.97%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.65%) Firmware
10 2 (0.65%) NFS
10 2 (0.65%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.32%) KVM
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.32%) XenApp
11 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (17.48%) Terraform
2 36 (11.65%) Ansible
3 34 (11.00%) Kubernetes
4 28 (9.06%) Puppet
5 15 (4.85%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.53%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.88%) Nagios
7 12 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (3.56%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.24%) Grafana
9 10 (3.24%) Graphite
10 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.94%) NetCrunch
12 5 (1.62%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (1.29%) FortiGate
13 4 (1.29%) Istio
13 4 (1.29%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.97%) SCOM
14 3 (0.97%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 98 (31.72%) Microsoft
2 78 (25.24%) Cisco
3 76 (24.60%) VMware
4 56 (18.12%) Oracle
5 47 (15.21%) F5
6 46 (14.89%) Sparx
7 45 (14.56%) CheckPoint
8 29 (9.39%) Palo Alto
9 27 (8.74%) Juniper
10 21 (6.80%) Google
11 18 (5.83%) Meraki
12 16 (5.18%) Aruba
13 14 (4.53%) Fortinet
14 13 (4.21%) Citrix
14 13 (4.21%) Red Hat
14 13 (4.21%) SolarWinds
14 13 (4.21%) Splunk
15 9 (2.91%) Riverbed
16 8 (2.59%) Ribbon
16 8 (2.59%) Tufin