NLBS Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Network Load Balancing Services (NLBS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring NLBS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NLBS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.037% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.51% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile £92,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £90,000 - -

All System Software Skills
City of London

NLBS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 195 337 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.12% 13.38% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 155 240 535
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,200 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - -

NLBS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NLBS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

NLBS job vacancy trend in the City of London

NLBS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco