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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 552 444
Rank change year-on-year +28 -108 +172
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 85 143 226
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.28% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.32% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 36 76 179
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,253 £42,200
25th Percentile £51,279 £48,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £124,375 £94,375 £91,250
UK median annual salary £67,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.67% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process and 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 43,182 45,318 40,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.38% 90.00% 91.96%
Number of salaries quoted 25,805 22,886 31,508
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +90 60 £70,000 -6.67% 28
South East +4 9 £77,000 +28.33% 19
North of England +1 4 £70,000 - 7
East of England +27 3 £57,500 -17.86% 6
West Midlands +17 2 - - 5
North East +11 2 - -
Midlands +7 2 - - 5
North West +7 1 - - 5
South West -1 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -9 1 £70,000 - 2
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 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.71%) IIS
3 3 (3.53%) Apache
3 3 (3.53%) JBoss
3 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.53%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.18%) CMS
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (25.88%) MS Visio
2 12 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (49.41%) Azure
2 32 (37.65%) AWS
3 7 (8.24%) GCP
3 7 (8.24%) SaaS
4 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (4.71%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.71%) OpenShift
4 4 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.53%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.53%) Route 53
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.35%) IaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Datadog
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.18%) PaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.18%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 53 (62.35%) Firewall
2 46 (54.12%) LAN
3 36 (42.35%) WAN
4 35 (41.18%) VPN
5 31 (36.47%) Wireless
6 30 (35.29%) BGP
7 26 (30.59%) OSPF
8 22 (25.88%) DNS
8 22 (25.88%) SD-WAN
9 20 (23.53%) Network Security
10 17 (20.00%) EIGRP
11 14 (16.47%) Wireshark
12 12 (14.12%) TCP/IP
12 12 (14.12%) VLAN
13 11 (12.94%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (12.94%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (12.94%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (11.76%) WAAS
15 9 (10.59%) DHCP
15 9 (10.59%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.18%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.18%) MySQL
2 1 (1.18%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.71%) Git
2 4 (4.71%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.53%) Ant
3 3 (3.53%) Artifactory
3 3 (3.53%) Maven
4 2 (2.35%) GitLab
5 1 (1.18%) MSBuild
General
1 33 (38.82%) Finance
2 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 18 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.12%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (11.76%) Telecoms
6 7 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (7.06%) Marketing
8 5 (5.88%) Banking
8 5 (5.88%) Law
9 4 (4.71%) Retail
10 3 (3.53%) Back Office
10 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.35%) Legal
12 1 (1.18%) Aviation
12 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (56.47%) Network Engineer
2 26 (30.59%) Senior
3 21 (24.71%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (14.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Deployment Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Analyst
8 5 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Architect
9 4 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Network Security Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Network Support
9 4 (4.71%) Network Support Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Security Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.53%) Kafka
2 3 (3.53%) Middleware
2 3 (3.53%) RESTful
3 1 (1.18%) .NET
3 1 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.18%) Next.js
3 1 (1.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (47.06%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.12%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Low-Code
3 4 (4.71%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.71%) Web3
4 3 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.53%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) PKI
5 2 (2.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Clustering
6 1 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.47%) Windows
2 8 (9.41%) Linux
2 8 (9.41%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (20.00%) DevOps
3 15 (17.65%) Change Management
3 15 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 15 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
3 15 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
4 14 (16.47%) Validation
5 13 (15.29%) Capacity Planning
5 13 (15.29%) Change Control
5 13 (15.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (15.29%) Inventory Management
6 12 (14.12%) Computer Science
6 12 (14.12%) Customer Service
7 11 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (12.94%) Low Latency
7 11 (12.94%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
8 10 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (10.59%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 28 (32.94%) Python
2 11 (12.94%) PowerShell
3 7 (8.24%) Bash
4 4 (4.71%) SQL
5 3 (3.53%) Go
5 3 (3.53%) Groovy
5 3 (3.53%) Java
6 2 (2.35%) Bicep
7 1 (1.18%) C#
7 1 (1.18%) PHP
7 1 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (43.53%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (42.35%) CCNP
3 26 (30.59%) Degree
4 25 (29.41%) CCIE
5 11 (12.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
7 9 (10.59%) CCSA
8 8 (9.41%) CCSE
9 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
10 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.35%) CCNA
11 2 (2.35%) ISTQB
12 1 (1.18%) Check Point Certification
12 1 (1.18%) CISSP
12 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (1.18%) MCSE
12 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.18%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) PMO
2 5 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.71%) SOC 2
4 3 (3.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.35%) SLA
6 1 (1.18%) GDPR
6 1 (1.18%) NIST
6 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.41%) ProxySG
1 8 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.06%) Docker
4 5 (5.88%) vSphere
5 4 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.71%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.35%) pfSense
8 1 (1.18%) Firmware
8 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) Ansible
1 19 (22.35%) Terraform
2 12 (14.12%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.53%) Podman
3 3 (3.53%) Puppet
4 2 (2.35%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.35%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.18%) Argo
5 1 (1.18%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (1.18%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.18%) Nagios
5 1 (1.18%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 59 (69.41%) Cisco
2 37 (43.53%) F5
3 34 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 25 (29.41%) SolarWinds
5 22 (25.88%) Palo Alto
6 13 (15.29%) Infoblox
6 13 (15.29%) VMware
7 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
8 10 (11.76%) Blue Coat
8 10 (11.76%) Motorola
9 9 (10.59%) Meraki
10 5 (5.88%) Arista
10 5 (5.88%) Aruba
11 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
11 4 (4.71%) Splunk
12 3 (3.53%) Dell
12 3 (3.53%) EMC
12 3 (3.53%) Fortinet
13 2 (2.35%) Citrix
14 1 (1.18%) Juniper