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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 543 572
Rank change year-on-year -26 +29 -98
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 183 96 180
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.25% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 117 45 108
10th Percentile £54,000 £50,750 £39,925
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £70,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +19.66% +4.46%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,576 £72,250 £59,250
% change year-on-year -9.24% +21.94% +3.95%

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 75,111 38,102 56,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.37% 88.73% 81.79%
Number of salaries quoted 53,062 21,909 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -7.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -63 68 £80,000 +23.08% 142
South East -28 42 £60,000 -25.00% 29
North of England -52 24 £65,576 -18.03% 30
Midlands -37 22 £60,000 +30.43% 17
North West -16 17 £67,788 - 19
West Midlands -38 16 £62,500 +35.87% 15
South West -57 16 £62,500 +35.14% 17
East of England -29 9 £60,000 -2.04% 11
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 2
Yorkshire -41 4 £65,576 -18.03% 10
North East - 3 £65,576 - 1
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 15 (8.20%) nginx
1 15 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.10%) Apache
3 12 (6.56%) IIS
4 6 (3.28%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.19%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.55%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (46.99%) Azure
2 63 (34.43%) AWS
3 30 (16.39%) GCP
4 28 (15.30%) Azure AKS
5 27 (14.75%) IaaS
6 20 (10.93%) Azure Key Vault
7 19 (10.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 19 (10.38%) Azure Storage
8 13 (7.10%) Entra ID
9 12 (6.56%) Serverless
10 11 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (6.01%) PaaS
11 10 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.46%) GitHub
11 10 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (5.46%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.92%) OpenShift
13 8 (4.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 86 (46.99%) Firewall
2 77 (42.08%) DNS
3 44 (24.04%) VPN
4 36 (19.67%) BGP
5 32 (17.49%) Network Security
6 29 (15.85%) WAN
7 22 (12.02%) LAN
8 21 (11.48%) TCP/IP
9 19 (10.38%) OSPF
10 13 (7.10%) VLAN
11 12 (6.56%) SD-WAN
11 12 (6.56%) VXLAN
12 10 (5.46%) NGFW
13 9 (4.92%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (4.37%) IPsec
14 8 (4.37%) NetScaler
14 8 (4.37%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (3.83%) MPLS
15 7 (3.83%) Wireless
15 7 (3.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.10%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.37%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.83%) Big Data
4 6 (3.28%) Apache Hive
4 6 (3.28%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.28%) HBase
4 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.73%) MySQL
6 4 (2.19%) Redis
7 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.55%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.46%) Git
2 9 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.37%) GitLab
4 4 (2.19%) JIRA
5 3 (1.64%) PHPUnit
5 3 (1.64%) Selenium
6 2 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.09%) git-flow
7 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (30.05%) Finance
1 55 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.77%) Law
3 26 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (6.56%) Legal
5 11 (6.01%) Marketing
6 9 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.37%) Retail
8 7 (3.83%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.28%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.28%) Military
10 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.19%) Aviation
11 4 (2.19%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.09%) Banking
12 2 (1.09%) Electronics
13 1 (0.55%) Advertising
13 1 (0.55%) Games
13 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (25.14%) Senior
2 40 (21.86%) Network Engineer
3 32 (17.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (14.75%) Azure Engineer
4 27 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (10.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 19 (10.38%) Architect
6 16 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (7.10%) Senior Network Engineer
8 11 (6.01%) Lead
9 10 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Technical Support
12 7 (3.83%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 6 (3.28%) Network Security Specialist
13 6 (3.28%) Network Specialist
13 6 (3.28%) Senior Network Security Specialist
13 6 (3.28%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (26.78%) Terraform
2 11 (6.01%) Kafka
3 10 (5.46%) REST
4 8 (4.37%) OAuth
4 8 (4.37%) OAuth2
5 7 (3.83%) Node.js
5 7 (3.83%) RESTful
6 6 (3.28%) Middleware
7 5 (2.73%) AWS CDK
7 5 (2.73%) JWT
7 5 (2.73%) Web Services
8 4 (2.19%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (2.19%) JSON
8 4 (2.19%) LAMP
8 4 (2.19%) OpenID
8 4 (2.19%) Pulumi
8 4 (2.19%) SOAP
8 4 (2.19%) XML
8 4 (2.19%) XML Messaging
8 4 (2.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.58%) Data Centre
2 20 (10.93%) Cloud Native
3 19 (10.38%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.46%) Driving Licence
5 9 (4.92%) Private Cloud
6 8 (4.37%) CMDB
7 7 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.28%) Replication
9 5 (2.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.73%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.19%) Blog
10 4 (2.19%) Clustering
10 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.19%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.64%) Social Media
12 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 50 (27.32%) Linux
2 35 (19.13%) Windows
3 24 (13.11%) Windows Server
4 11 (6.01%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.83%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.09%) Unix
6 2 (1.09%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.97%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (30.05%) CI/CD
3 49 (26.78%) High Availability
4 48 (26.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 47 (25.68%) Containerisation
6 46 (25.14%) Agile
6 46 (25.14%) DevOps
7 41 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (20.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (18.58%) Mentoring
10 32 (17.49%) Root Cause Analysis
11 28 (15.30%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (13.11%) Software Engineering
13 22 (12.02%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (12.02%) Roadmaps
14 21 (11.48%) Analytics
14 21 (11.48%) Business Continuity
14 21 (11.48%) Observability
15 20 (10.93%) AI
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.32%) PowerShell
2 49 (26.78%) Python
3 22 (12.02%) SQL
4 20 (10.93%) Bash
5 13 (7.10%) Java
5 13 (7.10%) PHP
6 7 (3.83%) C
6 7 (3.83%) Go
7 6 (3.28%) C#
7 6 (3.28%) Ruby
8 4 (2.19%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.64%) Bicep
9 3 (1.64%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 40 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.39%) Azure Certification
3 29 (15.85%) SC Cleared
4 28 (15.30%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (11.48%) CCNP
6 17 (9.29%) Degree
7 14 (7.65%) DV Cleared
8 13 (7.10%) CCNA
9 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (4.37%) AWS Certification
11 7 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (1.64%) CCIE
14 3 (1.64%) CCSP
14 3 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.56%) SLA
2 10 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.37%) QA
4 5 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.64%) NCSC
6 2 (1.09%) GDPR
7 1 (0.55%) COBIT
7 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (16.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (15.30%) Docker
3 11 (6.01%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.37%) VMware NSX
5 7 (3.83%) Firmware
6 5 (2.73%) Squid
6 5 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.19%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.64%) KVM
8 3 (1.64%) vSphere
9 2 (1.09%) ProxySG
9 2 (1.09%) UAG
9 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (38.80%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.11%) Ansible
3 14 (7.65%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.10%) Grafana
5 10 (5.46%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (4.37%) Argo
6 8 (4.37%) FortiGate
7 6 (3.28%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.73%) Istio
9 4 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.64%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.64%) Nagios
10 3 (1.64%) Puppet
11 2 (1.09%) AirWatch
11 2 (1.09%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.09%) SCCM
11 2 (1.09%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.55%) Cilium
12 1 (0.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 50 (27.32%) Microsoft
2 40 (21.86%) VMware
3 36 (19.67%) Cisco
4 31 (16.94%) F5
5 24 (13.11%) Palo Alto
6 13 (7.10%) Fortinet
6 13 (7.10%) Zscaler
7 11 (6.01%) Citrix
7 11 (6.01%) Meraki
8 10 (5.46%) Google
8 10 (5.46%) HP
9 9 (4.92%) Aruba
9 9 (4.92%) Infoblox
10 8 (4.37%) Dell
10 8 (4.37%) Oracle
10 8 (4.37%) SonicWALL
10 8 (4.37%) Splunk
11 7 (3.83%) IBM
11 7 (3.83%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.83%) SAP