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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 561 461
Rank change year-on-year +37 -100 +164
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 90 149 229
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.25% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.30% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 36 75 188
10th Percentile £49,434 £39,150 £41,775
25th Percentile £59,375 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £90,313 £70,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £124,375 £86,250 £95,436
UK median annual salary £75,900 £59,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +28.10% +3.04% -8.00%

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 39,312 50,298 44,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.94% 83.82% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,307 25,999 33,770
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +73 62 £85,000 +19.30% 42
South East +17 14 £77,500 +30.80% 21
North of England +34 5 £85,000 +36.00% 11
Yorkshire +15 4 £85,000 +21.43% 3
West Midlands +40 2 - - 12
Midlands +27 2 - - 13
East of England +10 2 £57,500 -17.86% 3
North West +30 1 - - 7
South West +22 1 - - 3
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.33%) Apache
2 3 (3.33%) IIS
2 3 (3.33%) JBoss
2 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.11%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (21.11%) MS Visio
2 13 (14.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (44.44%) Azure
2 36 (40.00%) AWS
3 10 (11.11%) SaaS
4 8 (8.89%) GCP
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.44%) OCI
6 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.33%) Route 53
8 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.22%) IaaS
8 2 (2.22%) Serverless
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (57.78%) Firewall
2 46 (51.11%) LAN
3 33 (36.67%) VPN
4 30 (33.33%) WAN
5 29 (32.22%) BGP
6 27 (30.00%) Wireless
7 26 (28.89%) OSPF
8 24 (26.67%) Network Security
9 22 (24.44%) SD-WAN
10 18 (20.00%) DNS
11 14 (15.56%) Wireshark
12 13 (14.44%) EIGRP
12 13 (14.44%) VLAN
13 12 (13.33%) TCP/IP
13 12 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (8.89%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (7.78%) DHCP
15 7 (7.78%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (7.78%) SSL
15 7 (7.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.44%) KDB
2 4 (4.44%) Kdb+
3 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.44%) Git
2 4 (4.44%) Maven
3 3 (3.33%) Ant
3 3 (3.33%) Artifactory
3 3 (3.33%) JIRA
3 3 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.22%) MSBuild
General
1 39 (43.33%) Finance
2 29 (32.22%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (14.44%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (13.33%) Law
6 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (11.11%) Marketing
6 10 (11.11%) Telecoms
7 9 (10.00%) Banking
8 5 (5.56%) Retail
9 3 (3.33%) Back Office
9 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.22%) Legal
10 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.11%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 48 (53.33%) Network Engineer
2 26 (28.89%) Senior
3 16 (17.78%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Lead
6 8 (8.89%) Deployment Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Web Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Network Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Network Support
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) 802.1X
1 4 (4.44%) REST
2 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.33%) Kafka
2 3 (3.33%) Middleware
2 3 (3.33%) RESTful
3 2 (2.22%) .NET
4 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 36 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.78%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.44%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.44%) Web3
6 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.33%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) PKI
7 2 (2.22%) Replication
8 1 (1.11%) Clustering
8 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Windows
2 5 (5.56%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.22%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (21.11%) Change Management
3 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 14 (15.56%) Change Control
4 14 (15.56%) Inventory Management
5 13 (14.44%) Capacity Planning
5 13 (14.44%) DevOps
5 13 (14.44%) Network Virtualisation
5 13 (14.44%) Process Improvement
5 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
5 13 (14.44%) Validation
6 12 (13.33%) Customer Service
6 12 (13.33%) High Availability
6 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (13.33%) Migration
6 12 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (12.22%) Low Latency
8 10 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.22%) Python
2 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.78%) Bash
3 7 (7.78%) Java
4 4 (4.44%) C
4 4 (4.44%) C++
4 4 (4.44%) SQL
5 3 (3.33%) Go
5 3 (3.33%) Groovy
5 3 (3.33%) VB
6 2 (2.22%) C#
7 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (37.78%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (35.56%) CCNP
3 22 (24.44%) Degree
4 21 (23.33%) CCIE
5 14 (15.56%) Security Cleared
6 9 (10.00%) CCSA
6 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 8 (8.89%) CCSE
8 7 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
10 4 (4.44%) CCNA
11 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
12 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.11%) Check Point Certification
12 1 (1.11%) CISSP
12 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (1.11%) MCSE
12 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.11%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) PMO
2 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.33%) SLA
3 3 (3.33%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.11%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.11%) NIST
4 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) ProxySG
2 6 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.44%) Docker
3 4 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.44%) vSphere
4 3 (3.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.22%) pfSense
5 2 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (31.11%) Ansible
2 23 (25.56%) Terraform
3 14 (15.56%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.33%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.33%) Podman
4 3 (3.33%) Puppet
5 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.22%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.11%) Argo
6 1 (1.11%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (1.11%) Nagios
6 1 (1.11%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 52 (57.78%) Cisco
2 32 (35.56%) F5
3 29 (32.22%) CheckPoint
4 21 (23.33%) SolarWinds
5 19 (21.11%) Palo Alto
6 10 (11.11%) VMware
7 9 (10.00%) Blue Coat
7 9 (10.00%) Meraki
8 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
9 6 (6.67%) Infoblox
9 6 (6.67%) Motorola
10 5 (5.56%) Arista
10 5 (5.56%) Aruba
11 4 (4.44%) Broadcom
11 4 (4.44%) Citrix
11 4 (4.44%) Netskope
11 4 (4.44%) Symantec
11 4 (4.44%) Zscaler
12 3 (3.33%) EMC
13 1 (1.11%) HP