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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 552 495
Rank change year-on-year +29 -57 +115
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 96 126 237
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.29% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 48 59 195
10th Percentile £44,250 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% +4.35% -9.80%
75th Percentile £78,125 £75,000 £67,750
90th Percentile £95,750 £112,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,860 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.23% +9.09% -8.33%

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 44,707 43,296 53,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.31% 91.66% 88.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,023 21,021 42,133
10th Percentile £28,928 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,110 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.28% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,354 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +72 53 £70,000 - 18
North of England +9 17 £48,445 -30.79% 10
North East +1 7 £48,445 -
South East -10 6 £45,000 -20.00% 14
North West +17 5 £48,445 -39.44% 6
Yorkshire -14 5 £48,445 -30.79% 4
East of England +19 3 £57,500 -17.86% 7
South West -5 3 - - 2
West Midlands +16 2 - - 6
Midlands -7 2 - - 8
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 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.17%) IIS
4 1 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (22.92%) MS Visio
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 56 (58.33%) Azure
2 46 (47.92%) AWS
3 14 (14.58%) OCI
4 8 (8.33%) SaaS
5 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (7.29%) AWS Direct Connect
5 7 (7.29%) GCP
5 7 (7.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.25%) Route 53
7 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.13%) IaaS
8 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (67.71%) Firewall
2 38 (39.58%) LAN
3 34 (35.42%) VPN
3 34 (35.42%) WAN
4 29 (30.21%) BGP
5 24 (25.00%) Wireless
6 23 (23.96%) DNS
7 22 (22.92%) Wireshark
8 21 (21.88%) OSPF
8 21 (21.88%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (20.83%) Network Security
9 20 (20.83%) VLAN
10 18 (18.75%) SD-WAN
11 15 (15.63%) NGFW
12 14 (14.58%) TCP/IP
12 14 (14.58%) VXLAN
13 13 (13.54%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (13.54%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (13.54%) EIGRP
14 12 (12.50%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.04%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.04%) MySQL
4 1 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.13%) GitLab
3 2 (2.08%) Git
3 2 (2.08%) JIRA
3 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.04%) Ant
4 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.04%) Maven
4 1 (1.04%) MSBuild
General
1 35 (36.46%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
3 30 (31.25%) Finance
4 17 (17.71%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.46%) Telecoms
6 10 (10.42%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (9.38%) Banking
8 8 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (8.33%) Law
8 8 (8.33%) Retail
9 6 (6.25%) Back Office
9 6 (6.25%) Financial Institution
10 5 (5.21%) Marketing
11 4 (4.17%) Legal
12 2 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (45.83%) Network Engineer
2 26 (27.08%) Senior
3 20 (20.83%) Senior Network Engineer
4 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (14.58%) Network Manager
5 14 (14.58%) Network Operations Manager
5 14 (14.58%) Operations Manager
6 11 (11.46%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Deployment Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Network Deployment Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Architect
9 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Network Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Network Security Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Network Support
10 4 (4.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) RESTful
2 4 (4.17%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.04%) .NET
4 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.04%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.04%) Kafka
4 1 (1.04%) Middleware
4 1 (1.04%) Next.js
4 1 (1.04%) Node.js
4 1 (1.04%) OAuth
4 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.04%) OpenID
4 1 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (58.33%) Data Centre
2 14 (14.58%) PKI
3 10 (10.42%) Management Information System
4 8 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.17%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.13%) Blog
7 3 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.13%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.08%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.08%) Replication
8 2 (2.08%) Web3
9 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.04%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.63%) Windows
2 9 (9.38%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.29%) Linux
4 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (27.08%) Network Monitoring
3 22 (22.92%) Coaching
4 19 (19.79%) CI/CD
4 19 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 17 (17.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (16.67%) ITSM
8 15 (15.63%) Change Management
8 15 (15.63%) DevOps
8 15 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (15.63%) Validation
9 14 (14.58%) Creative Thinking
10 13 (13.54%) Network Virtualisation
10 13 (13.54%) Project Delivery
10 13 (13.54%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (12.50%) Change Control
11 12 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
11 12 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.63%) Python
2 13 (13.54%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.25%) Bash
3 6 (6.25%) Go
3 6 (6.25%) Java
4 5 (5.21%) SQL
5 3 (3.13%) Bicep
6 1 (1.04%) C#
6 1 (1.04%) Groovy
6 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (32.29%) CCNP
3 24 (25.00%) Degree
4 23 (23.96%) CCIE
5 12 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
7 7 (7.29%) CCSA
7 7 (7.29%) CCSE
8 6 (6.25%) SC Cleared
9 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
10 3 (3.13%) ISTQB
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.08%) CCNA
11 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.04%) Check Point Certification
12 1 (1.04%) CISSP
12 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (1.04%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) PMO
2 7 (7.29%) PCI DSS
2 7 (7.29%) SOC 2
3 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.04%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 11 (11.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.42%) ProxySG
3 8 (8.33%) Docker
3 8 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.17%) vSphere
6 3 (3.13%) Firmware
7 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (37.50%) Terraform
2 23 (23.96%) Ansible
3 12 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.08%) Check_MK
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.04%) Argo
6 1 (1.04%) Nagios
6 1 (1.04%) Podman
6 1 (1.04%) Puppet
6 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (55.21%) Cisco
2 32 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 31 (32.29%) F5
4 22 (22.92%) SolarWinds
5 20 (20.83%) Palo Alto
6 18 (18.75%) Arista
7 16 (16.67%) Infoblox
7 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 14 (14.58%) Aruba
8 14 (14.58%) NetScout
9 13 (13.54%) VMware
10 12 (12.50%) Blue Coat
10 12 (12.50%) Motorola
11 8 (8.33%) Meraki
11 8 (8.33%) ServiceNow
12 5 (5.21%) Dell
13 4 (4.17%) Fortinet
13 4 (4.17%) Splunk
14 3 (3.13%) EMC
15 2 (2.08%) Databricks