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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 572 629
Rank change year-on-year +40 +57 -98
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 180 83 212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.22% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 129 52 172
10th Percentile £46,446 £44,000 £40,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% +6.06%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £92,250 £89,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 63,989 38,586 74,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 90.92% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 45,232 21,845 54,026
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,898 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,679 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,346
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 7 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 7 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 -1 63 £82,500 +26.92% 23
North of England -16 36 £52,500 -30.00% 13
South East -7 35 £60,000 -23.81% 17
Midlands -13 18 £60,000 +30.43% 3
North West +12 17 £52,500 +10.53% 6
East of England -9 11 £60,000 -7.69% 10
North East - 11 £48,445 - 2
East Midlands -15 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -21 9 £70,000 +52.17% 2
Yorkshire -25 8 £48,445 -39.44% 6
South West -60 6 £36,423 -21.25% 4
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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.22%) IIS
3 4 (2.22%) nginx
4 3 (1.67%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.11%) Apache
5 2 (1.11%) Confluence
6 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.56%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 103 (57.22%) Azure
2 74 (41.11%) AWS
3 38 (21.11%) Azure AKS
4 35 (19.44%) IaaS
5 29 (16.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 28 (15.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 28 (15.56%) Azure Storage
7 18 (10.00%) GCP
8 15 (8.33%) OCI
9 10 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (5.56%) PaaS
10 9 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (5.00%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.44%) GitHub
11 8 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.44%) Serverless
11 8 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 95 (52.78%) Firewall
2 66 (36.67%) DNS
3 60 (33.33%) VPN
4 49 (27.22%) BGP
5 42 (23.33%) WAN
6 35 (19.44%) OSPF
7 34 (18.89%) LAN
7 34 (18.89%) Network Security
8 30 (16.67%) VLAN
9 27 (15.00%) VXLAN
10 24 (13.33%) NGFW
11 20 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
11 20 (11.11%) TCP/IP
12 18 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
12 18 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (9.44%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (8.89%) SD-WAN
14 16 (8.89%) Wireless
15 15 (8.33%) Wireshark
16 12 (6.67%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.33%) MySQL
2 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.22%) Apache Hive
4 4 (2.22%) Big Data
4 4 (2.22%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.22%) HBase
4 4 (2.22%) Redis
5 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.89%) GitLab
2 6 (3.33%) Git
3 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.11%) JIRA
3 2 (1.11%) PHPUnit
3 2 (1.11%) Selenium
General
1 49 (27.22%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 38 (21.11%) Law
4 32 (17.78%) Finance
5 20 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.56%) Retail
7 8 (4.44%) Legal
7 8 (4.44%) Retail Banking
8 7 (3.89%) Banking
9 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.78%) Marketing
10 4 (2.22%) Aviation
10 4 (2.22%) Military
10 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.67%) Back Office
11 3 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Advertising
13 1 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 51 (28.33%) Network Engineer
2 43 (23.89%) Senior
3 39 (21.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (19.44%) Azure Engineer
5 28 (15.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 23 (12.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (11.67%) Senior Network Engineer
8 17 (9.44%) Operations Manager
9 16 (8.89%) Network Manager
10 15 (8.33%) Network Operations Manager
11 12 (6.67%) Architect
11 12 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (3.89%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 6 (3.33%) Network Specialist
16 6 (3.33%) Security Specialist
16 6 (3.33%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.00%) Kafka
1 9 (5.00%) RESTful
2 8 (4.44%) 802.1X
3 7 (3.89%) Node.js
3 7 (3.89%) OAuth
3 7 (3.89%) OAuth2
4 5 (2.78%) Middleware
4 5 (2.78%) REST
5 4 (2.22%) JSON
5 4 (2.22%) JWT
5 4 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.22%) SOAP
5 4 (2.22%) XML
5 4 (2.22%) XML Messaging
5 4 (2.22%) YAML
6 3 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.67%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.67%) LAMP
6 3 (1.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 66 (36.67%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.44%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.33%) PKI
4 10 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.44%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.33%) Replication
8 5 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.78%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.22%) Clustering
9 4 (2.22%) CMDB
9 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.22%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.67%) Blog
10 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.67%) Linux
2 17 (9.44%) Windows
3 9 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.11%) CentOS
5 2 (1.11%) Rocky
5 2 (1.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.56%) Solaris
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (27.22%) Containerisation
3 47 (26.11%) Agile
3 47 (26.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 46 (25.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (25.00%) High Availability
6 44 (24.44%) CI/CD
7 39 (21.67%) DevOps
8 36 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 32 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (12.78%) Coaching
11 23 (12.78%) Collaborative Working
12 22 (12.22%) Computer Science
13 21 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
15 18 (10.00%) Analytics
15 18 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (9.44%) ITIL
17 16 (8.89%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 58 (32.22%) Python
2 44 (24.44%) PowerShell
3 23 (12.78%) SQL
4 14 (7.78%) Bash
5 12 (6.67%) Java
6 8 (4.44%) PHP
7 6 (3.33%) Go
8 5 (2.78%) C
9 4 (2.22%) C#
9 4 (2.22%) Ruby
10 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 39 (21.67%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (20.56%) Azure Certification
3 34 (18.89%) CCNP
4 29 (16.11%) Security Cleared
5 23 (12.78%) Degree
6 20 (11.11%) SC Cleared
7 17 (9.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (7.78%) CCIE
9 12 (6.67%) CCNA
10 9 (5.00%) DV Cleared
11 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.56%) CCSM
13 1 (0.56%) CISM
13 1 (0.56%) CISSP
13 1 (0.56%) IISP
13 1 (0.56%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) PMO
2 7 (3.89%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.33%) QA
4 5 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.67%) SLA
5 3 (1.67%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.11%) GDPR
6 2 (1.11%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.56%) COBIT
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (7.78%) Docker
3 12 (6.67%) ProxySG
4 11 (6.11%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.78%) Firmware
5 5 (2.78%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.11%) Squid
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (37.22%) Kubernetes
2 55 (30.56%) Terraform
3 31 (17.22%) Ansible
4 9 (5.00%) Check_MK
4 9 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (4.44%) Grafana
6 6 (3.33%) FortiGate
6 6 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.78%) Argo
7 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.22%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (2.22%) Istio
8 4 (2.22%) Nagios
9 3 (1.67%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.67%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.56%) linkerd
11 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (27.22%) Cisco
2 37 (20.56%) Microsoft
3 29 (16.11%) Palo Alto
4 25 (13.89%) F5
5 23 (12.78%) SolarWinds
5 23 (12.78%) VMware
6 22 (12.22%) Aruba
7 21 (11.67%) Arista
8 16 (8.89%) CheckPoint
8 16 (8.89%) Infoblox
9 15 (8.33%) NetScout
10 14 (7.78%) Fortinet
11 12 (6.67%) Blue Coat
11 12 (6.67%) Motorola
11 12 (6.67%) ServiceNow
12 8 (4.44%) Dell
12 8 (4.44%) HP
12 8 (4.44%) Zscaler
13 7 (3.89%) Oracle
13 7 (3.89%) Red Hat