Load Balancing Job Trends in England

Load Balancing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 547 615
Rank change year-on-year +7 +68 -101
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 179 89 187
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 123 53 147
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,750 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,125 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,000 £87,700
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Load Balancing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65,989 38,936 64,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 89.93% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 46,599 22,465 44,364
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in England

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Load Balancing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in England over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the England region over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. 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
London -20 66 £80,000 +23.08% 38
South East -12 44 £60,000 -22.58% 13
North of England -14 25 £65,576 -12.57% 14
Midlands -24 20 £60,000 +30.43% 3
North West +3 14 £59,038 +24.29% 7
East of England -1 11 £60,000 -7.69% 6
West Midlands -18 11 £65,000 +41.30% 3
East Midlands -23 9 £60,000 -
South West -59 8 £49,462 +6.94% 5
North East - 7 £65,576 -
Yorkshire -41 4 £65,576 -18.03% 7
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.03%) nginx
3 7 (3.91%) Apache
4 6 (3.35%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.35%) IIS
5 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.68%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.12%) Confluence
7 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.56%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (4.47%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (49.72%) Azure
2 64 (35.75%) AWS
3 38 (21.23%) Azure AKS
4 34 (18.99%) IaaS
5 28 (15.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 28 (15.64%) Azure Key Vault
5 28 (15.64%) Azure Storage
6 24 (13.41%) GCP
7 12 (6.70%) Serverless
8 11 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (5.03%) GitHub
9 9 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (5.03%) OpenShift
9 9 (5.03%) PaaS
10 7 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.35%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (3.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 87 (48.60%) Firewall
2 78 (43.58%) DNS
3 56 (31.28%) VPN
4 45 (25.14%) BGP
5 39 (21.79%) WAN
6 36 (20.11%) Network Security
7 33 (18.44%) LAN
8 30 (16.76%) OSPF
9 24 (13.41%) VLAN
10 20 (11.17%) TCP/IP
11 18 (10.06%) Cisco Nexus
12 17 (9.50%) SD-WAN
13 16 (8.94%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (7.26%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (7.26%) VXLAN
14 13 (7.26%) Wireless
15 12 (6.70%) NGFW
16 10 (5.59%) Cisco ISE
17 8 (4.47%) Cisco Wireless
17 8 (4.47%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.47%) MySQL
2 8 (4.47%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.91%) Big Data
3 7 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.35%) Apache Hive
4 6 (3.35%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.35%) HBase
5 4 (2.23%) Redis
6 3 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Git
2 7 (3.91%) GitLab
3 4 (2.23%) PHPUnit
3 4 (2.23%) Selenium
4 3 (1.68%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.12%) JIRA
6 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.58%) Finance
3 41 (22.91%) Law
4 32 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.59%) Retail
6 9 (5.03%) Legal
6 9 (5.03%) Marketing
7 7 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.35%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.35%) Military
8 6 (3.35%) Retail Banking
9 5 (2.79%) Banking
9 5 (2.79%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.23%) Aviation
11 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.56%) Advertising
13 1 (0.56%) Electronics
13 1 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (27.93%) Network Engineer
2 47 (26.26%) Senior
3 38 (21.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (18.99%) Azure Engineer
5 28 (15.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 21 (11.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (10.61%) Senior Network Engineer
8 13 (7.26%) Architect
8 13 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.59%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 6 (3.35%) Network Security Specialist
12 6 (3.35%) Network Specialist
12 6 (3.35%) Security Specialist
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Network Security Specialist
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Network Specialist
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.15%) Kafka
2 9 (5.03%) Node.js
3 8 (4.47%) REST
4 7 (3.91%) RESTful
5 6 (3.35%) 802.1X
5 6 (3.35%) OAuth
5 6 (3.35%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.79%) LAMP
6 5 (2.79%) Middleware
6 5 (2.79%) Web Services
7 4 (2.23%) CSS
7 4 (2.23%) HTML
7 4 (2.23%) jQuery
7 4 (2.23%) JSON
7 4 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.23%) SOAP
7 4 (2.23%) XHTML
7 4 (2.23%) XML
7 4 (2.23%) XML Messaging
7 4 (2.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (25.14%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.50%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.38%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.59%) Driving Licence
5 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.35%) Replication
8 5 (2.79%) CMDB
8 5 (2.79%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.79%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.23%) Clustering
9 4 (2.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.23%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.23%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.68%) Blog
11 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.91%) Linux
2 23 (12.85%) Windows
3 15 (8.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.79%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.79%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.12%) CentOS
5 2 (1.12%) Rocky
5 2 (1.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.93%) Agile
1 50 (27.93%) Containerisation
2 49 (27.37%) High Availability
2 49 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (26.82%) CI/CD
4 45 (25.14%) Root Cause Analysis
5 43 (24.02%) DevOps
6 42 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (15.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 26 (14.53%) Mentoring
10 23 (12.85%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (11.73%) Collaborative Working
11 21 (11.73%) Computer Science
12 20 (11.17%) Analytics
12 20 (11.17%) Roadmaps
13 18 (10.06%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (8.38%) Observability
14 15 (8.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (26.26%) Python
2 46 (25.70%) PowerShell
3 24 (13.41%) SQL
4 16 (8.94%) Bash
5 14 (7.82%) PHP
6 12 (6.70%) Java
7 7 (3.91%) C
8 6 (3.35%) C#
8 6 (3.35%) Ruby
9 5 (2.79%) Go
10 3 (1.68%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.56%) Bicep
11 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (21.79%) Azure Certification
2 38 (21.23%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (18.44%) CCNP
4 30 (16.76%) Security Cleared
5 23 (12.85%) SC Cleared
6 22 (12.29%) Degree
7 14 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (6.70%) CCNA
9 11 (6.15%) CCIE
10 8 (4.47%) DV Cleared
10 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (2.23%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.56%) CCSM
14 1 (0.56%) IISP
14 1 (0.56%) ISACA
14 1 (0.56%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.47%) PMO
1 8 (4.47%) QA
2 6 (3.35%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.79%) SLA
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) COBIT
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (11.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (11.17%) Docker
3 10 (5.59%) ProxySG
4 8 (4.47%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.79%) Squid
6 5 (2.79%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.23%) Firmware
8 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.56%) KVM
9 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (40.78%) Kubernetes
2 43 (24.02%) Terraform
3 21 (11.73%) Ansible
4 11 (6.15%) Grafana
5 9 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.47%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.91%) Argo
7 7 (3.91%) Check_MK
8 6 (3.35%) FortiGate
8 6 (3.35%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (3.35%) Istio
8 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.23%) Nagios
10 3 (1.68%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.68%) Proxmox
11 2 (1.12%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.56%) Kibana
12 1 (0.56%) linkerd
12 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (25.70%) Cisco
2 41 (22.91%) Microsoft
3 29 (16.20%) Palo Alto
3 29 (16.20%) VMware
4 26 (14.53%) F5
5 18 (10.06%) SolarWinds
6 14 (7.82%) CheckPoint
6 14 (7.82%) Fortinet
7 13 (7.26%) Infoblox
8 12 (6.70%) Zscaler
9 10 (5.59%) Aruba
9 10 (5.59%) Blue Coat
9 10 (5.59%) HP
10 9 (5.03%) Google
10 9 (5.03%) Oracle
10 9 (5.03%) ServiceNow
10 9 (5.03%) Veeam
11 8 (4.47%) Arista
11 8 (4.47%) Motorola
12 7 (3.91%) Red Hat