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

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 562 452
Rank change year-on-year +29 -110 +158
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 79 152 232
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.27% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.31% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 31 81 186
10th Percentile £47,617 £39,750 £42,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,900 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.50% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £90,625 £72,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £142,500 £91,250 £95,436
UK median annual salary £70,750 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +17.92% +6.67% -10.00%

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 41,486 48,456 42,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.29% 87.03% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25,004 25,273 32,594
10th Percentile £28,500 £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% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,313 £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% - -0.83%

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 11 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 11 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 +92 59 £82,500 +11.86% 27
South East +12 10 £64,000 +6.67% 15
West Midlands +21 2 - - 3
East of England +18 2 £57,500 -17.86% 7
Midlands +15 2 - - 5
North West +27 1 - - 8
South West +15 1 - - 2
North of England +7 1 - - 14
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 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.80%) Apache
2 3 (3.80%) IIS
2 3 (3.80%) JBoss
2 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.80%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.27%) CMS
3 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (24.05%) MS Visio
2 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (44.30%) Azure
2 28 (35.44%) AWS
3 7 (8.86%) SaaS
4 5 (6.33%) GCP
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (5.06%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.80%) Route 53
7 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.53%) IaaS
8 1 (1.27%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (56.96%) LAN
2 44 (55.70%) Firewall
3 30 (37.97%) WAN
4 28 (35.44%) Wireless
5 27 (34.18%) VPN
6 26 (32.91%) BGP
7 23 (29.11%) OSPF
8 22 (27.85%) SD-WAN
9 19 (24.05%) DNS
10 16 (20.25%) Network Security
11 14 (17.72%) Wireshark
12 13 (16.46%) EIGRP
13 11 (13.92%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (12.66%) DHCP
15 9 (11.39%) Cisco IOS
15 9 (11.39%) TCP/IP
16 7 (8.86%) Cisco ASA
16 7 (8.86%) Cisco Nexus
16 7 (8.86%) Ethernet VPN
16 7 (8.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.27%) KDB
3 1 (1.27%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.27%) MySQL
3 1 (1.27%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Git
1 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
1 4 (5.06%) JIRA
1 4 (5.06%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.80%) Ant
2 3 (3.80%) Artifactory
2 3 (3.80%) Maven
3 1 (1.27%) MSBuild
General
1 33 (41.77%) Finance
2 28 (35.44%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.46%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.66%) Telecoms
5 9 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (8.86%) Law
6 7 (8.86%) Marketing
7 6 (7.59%) Banking
8 4 (5.06%) Retail
9 3 (3.80%) Back Office
9 3 (3.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.53%) Legal
10 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.27%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 44 (55.70%) Network Engineer
2 20 (25.32%) Senior
3 16 (20.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (13.92%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Deployment Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Architect
7 4 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Network Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Network Support
7 4 (5.06%) Network Support Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Lead
8 3 (3.80%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.06%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.80%) Kafka
2 3 (3.80%) Middleware
2 3 (3.80%) RESTful
3 1 (1.27%) .NET
3 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (45.57%) Data Centre
2 12 (15.19%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.06%) Low-Code
3 4 (5.06%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.06%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.06%) Web3
4 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.80%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) PKI
5 2 (2.53%) Replication
6 1 (1.27%) Clustering
6 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Windows
2 6 (7.59%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.33%) Linux
4 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.80%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (20.25%) Change Management
2 16 (20.25%) Network Monitoring
3 14 (17.72%) Change Control
3 14 (17.72%) Inventory Management
4 13 (16.46%) Capacity Planning
4 13 (16.46%) DevOps
4 13 (16.46%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (16.46%) Validation
5 12 (15.19%) CI/CD
5 12 (15.19%) Customer Service
6 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (13.92%) Low Latency
6 11 (13.92%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (12.66%) Process Improvement
8 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (11.39%) Migration
8 9 (11.39%) Problem Management
9 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.65%) Python
2 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.06%) Bash
3 4 (5.06%) Java
3 4 (5.06%) SQL
4 3 (3.80%) Go
4 3 (3.80%) Groovy
4 3 (3.80%) VB
5 1 (1.27%) C
5 1 (1.27%) C#
5 1 (1.27%) C++
5 1 (1.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (44.30%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (43.04%) CCNP
3 23 (29.11%) Degree
4 22 (27.85%) CCIE
5 12 (15.19%) Security Cleared
6 9 (11.39%) CCSA
7 8 (10.13%) CCSE
8 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (8.86%) SC Cleared
9 5 (6.33%) DV Cleared
10 3 (3.80%) CCNA
11 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
12 1 (1.27%) Check Point Certification
12 1 (1.27%) CISSP
12 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (1.27%) MCSE
12 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.27%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) PMO
2 5 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.06%) SOC 2
4 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.80%) SLA
5 1 (1.27%) GDPR
5 1 (1.27%) NIST
5 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 7 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.33%) ProxySG
2 5 (6.33%) vSphere
3 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.80%) Docker
4 3 (3.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.80%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.53%) pfSense
6 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (25.32%) Ansible
2 19 (24.05%) Terraform
3 10 (12.66%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.80%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.80%) Podman
4 3 (3.80%) Puppet
5 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.53%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.27%) Argo
6 1 (1.27%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (1.27%) Nagios
6 1 (1.27%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 54 (68.35%) Cisco
2 33 (41.77%) F5
3 30 (37.97%) CheckPoint
4 21 (26.58%) SolarWinds
5 20 (25.32%) Palo Alto
6 11 (13.92%) VMware
7 9 (11.39%) Meraki
8 8 (10.13%) Infoblox
9 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
10 6 (7.59%) Blue Coat
10 6 (7.59%) Motorola
11 5 (6.33%) Arista
11 5 (6.33%) Aruba
12 4 (5.06%) Citrix
13 3 (3.80%) EMC
14 2 (2.53%) Zscaler
15 1 (1.27%) HP
15 1 (1.27%) Juniper
15 1 (1.27%) Pure Storage
15 1 (1.27%) SAP