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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 571 641
Rank change year-on-year +39 +70 -108
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 183 84 210
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 130 53 170
10th Percentile £46,446 £44,000 £39,975
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,750 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% +5.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £90,500 £92,000 £88,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +3.20% +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 64,229 39,036 74,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.64% 82.57%
Number of salaries quoted 45,346 22,191 53,359
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £29,500
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 £73,750
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 9 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 9 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 +3 66 £82,500 +26.92% 21
South East -18 36 £60,000 -22.58% 14
North of England -10 35 £52,500 -30.00% 9
Midlands -20 18 £60,000 +30.43% 3
North West +12 17 £52,500 +10.53% 5
East of England -7 11 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North East - 10 £48,445 - 1
East Midlands -20 9 £60,000 -
West Midlands -22 9 £70,000 +52.17% 3
Yorkshire -33 8 £48,445 -39.44% 3
South West -55 7 £36,423 -21.25% 2
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 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.73%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.19%) IIS
3 4 (2.19%) nginx
4 3 (1.64%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 2 (1.09%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.55%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (5.46%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (55.19%) Azure
2 74 (40.44%) AWS
3 38 (20.77%) Azure AKS
4 35 (19.13%) IaaS
5 29 (15.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 28 (15.30%) Azure Key Vault
6 28 (15.30%) Azure Storage
7 18 (9.84%) GCP
8 15 (8.20%) OCI
9 10 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (5.46%) PaaS
9 10 (5.46%) Serverless
10 9 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.92%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.37%) GitHub
11 8 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 95 (51.91%) Firewall
2 69 (37.70%) DNS
3 60 (32.79%) VPN
4 50 (27.32%) BGP
5 41 (22.40%) WAN
6 33 (18.03%) LAN
6 33 (18.03%) OSPF
7 32 (17.49%) Network Security
8 28 (15.30%) VLAN
9 27 (14.75%) VXLAN
10 25 (13.66%) NGFW
11 21 (11.48%) TCP/IP
12 19 (10.38%) Cisco Nexus
12 19 (10.38%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (9.84%) Cisco Firepower
14 16 (8.74%) SD-WAN
15 15 (8.20%) Cisco ASA
15 15 (8.20%) Wireshark
16 14 (7.65%) Wireless
17 10 (5.46%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.28%) Big Data
2 6 (3.28%) MySQL
2 6 (3.28%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.73%) Apache Hive
3 5 (2.73%) Hadoop
3 5 (2.73%) HBase
4 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.19%) Redis
5 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.83%) GitLab
2 6 (3.28%) Git
3 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.09%) JIRA
3 2 (1.09%) PHPUnit
3 2 (1.09%) Selenium
General
1 48 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 38 (20.77%) Law
4 35 (19.13%) Finance
5 20 (10.93%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.46%) Retail
7 8 (4.37%) Legal
7 8 (4.37%) Retail Banking
8 7 (3.83%) Banking
9 6 (3.28%) Marketing
10 5 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.73%) Military
10 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.19%) Aviation
12 3 (1.64%) Back Office
12 3 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 52 (28.42%) Network Engineer
2 44 (24.04%) Senior
3 39 (21.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (19.13%) Azure Engineer
5 28 (15.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 23 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (11.48%) Senior Network Engineer
8 17 (9.29%) Operations Manager
9 16 (8.74%) Network Manager
10 15 (8.20%) Network Operations Manager
11 13 (7.10%) Architect
12 12 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (6.01%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
15 9 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (4.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 7 (3.83%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
17 6 (3.28%) Network Security Specialist
17 6 (3.28%) Senior Network Security Specialist
17 6 (3.28%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.46%) Kafka
2 9 (4.92%) RESTful
3 8 (4.37%) 802.1X
3 8 (4.37%) Node.js
4 7 (3.83%) OAuth
4 7 (3.83%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.73%) Middleware
5 5 (2.73%) REST
6 4 (2.19%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (2.19%) JSON
6 4 (2.19%) JWT
6 4 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.19%) SOAP
6 4 (2.19%) XML
6 4 (2.19%) XML Messaging
6 4 (2.19%) YAML
7 3 (1.64%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.64%) LAMP
7 3 (1.64%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 65 (35.52%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.29%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.20%) PKI
4 12 (6.56%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.37%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.28%) Replication
8 5 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.73%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.19%) Blog
9 4 (2.19%) Clustering
9 4 (2.19%) CMDB
9 4 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.19%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.19%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.03%) Linux
2 18 (9.84%) Windows
3 9 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.64%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.09%) CentOS
5 2 (1.09%) Rocky
5 2 (1.09%) Unix
5 2 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (26.78%) Containerisation
3 47 (25.68%) Agile
4 46 (25.14%) High Availability
4 46 (25.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (24.59%) CI/CD
5 45 (24.59%) Root Cause Analysis
6 40 (21.86%) DevOps
7 37 (20.22%) Mentoring
8 32 (17.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (12.57%) Coaching
11 22 (12.02%) Collaborative Working
11 22 (12.02%) Computer Science
12 21 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (10.93%) Analytics
13 20 (10.93%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (9.29%) ITIL
14 17 (9.29%) Roadmaps
15 16 (8.74%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 58 (31.69%) Python
2 44 (24.04%) PowerShell
3 24 (13.11%) SQL
4 14 (7.65%) Bash
5 13 (7.10%) Java
6 9 (4.92%) PHP
7 6 (3.28%) C
7 6 (3.28%) Go
8 5 (2.73%) C#
8 5 (2.73%) Ruby
9 2 (1.09%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 37 (20.22%) Azure Certification
1 37 (20.22%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (17.49%) CCNP
3 30 (16.39%) Security Cleared
4 23 (12.57%) Degree
5 20 (10.93%) SC Cleared
6 16 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (6.56%) CCIE
7 12 (6.56%) CCNA
8 10 (5.46%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.55%) CCSE
11 1 (0.55%) CCSM
11 1 (0.55%) CCSP
11 1 (0.55%) CISM
11 1 (0.55%) CISSP
11 1 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.46%) PMO
2 7 (3.83%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.28%) QA
4 5 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.64%) SLA
5 3 (1.64%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.09%) GDPR
6 2 (1.09%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.55%) COBIT
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (7.65%) Docker
3 11 (6.01%) Active Directory
4 10 (5.46%) ProxySG
5 6 (3.28%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.73%) Firmware
7 3 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.09%) Squid
8 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (36.61%) Kubernetes
2 55 (30.05%) Terraform
3 32 (17.49%) Ansible
4 9 (4.92%) Check_MK
4 9 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (4.37%) Grafana
6 6 (3.28%) FortiGate
6 6 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.73%) Argo
7 5 (2.73%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.19%) Istio
8 4 (2.19%) Nagios
9 3 (1.64%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.64%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.55%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.55%) linkerd
11 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (27.32%) Cisco
2 38 (20.77%) Microsoft
3 31 (16.94%) Palo Alto
4 25 (13.66%) F5
5 24 (13.11%) VMware
6 23 (12.57%) Aruba
7 22 (12.02%) Arista
8 21 (11.48%) SolarWinds
9 15 (8.20%) Infoblox
9 15 (8.20%) NetScout
10 14 (7.65%) CheckPoint
10 14 (7.65%) Fortinet
11 10 (5.46%) Blue Coat
11 10 (5.46%) Motorola
11 10 (5.46%) ServiceNow
12 9 (4.92%) Dell
12 9 (4.92%) HP
13 8 (4.37%) Oracle
13 8 (4.37%) Zscaler
14 7 (3.83%) Red Hat