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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 543 564
Rank change year-on-year -32 +21 -100
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 187 91 170
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.24% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 116 39 94
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,750 £39,825
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,788 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +30.43% +0.88%
75th Percentile £78,750 £88,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,375 £103,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £66,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +30.43% +0.44%

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 76,540 38,554 54,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.61% 89.02% 82.44%
Number of salaries quoted 53,822 21,790 29,076
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,785 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -65 70 £80,000 +23.08% 108
South East -17 39 £60,000 -25.00% 27
North of England -43 25 £65,576 -18.03% 25
Midlands -19 22 £60,000 - 15
South West -54 21 £66,250 +26.19% 15
North West -7 17 £67,788 - 14
West Midlands -34 16 £62,500 - 11
East of England -29 8 £60,000 -2.04% 5
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 4
Yorkshire -35 4 £65,576 -18.03% 10
North East - 4 £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 (8.02%) nginx
1 15 (8.02%) SharePoint
2 13 (6.95%) Apache
3 11 (5.88%) IIS
4 6 (3.21%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.14%) Confluence
6 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.53%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 89 (47.59%) Azure
2 61 (32.62%) AWS
3 29 (15.51%) GCP
4 26 (13.90%) Azure AKS
5 25 (13.37%) IaaS
6 19 (10.16%) Azure Key Vault
7 18 (9.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (9.09%) Azure Storage
9 13 (6.95%) GitHub
9 13 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (6.42%) Entra ID
10 12 (6.42%) Serverless
11 11 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (5.88%) PaaS
12 10 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (5.35%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 93 (49.73%) Firewall
2 83 (44.39%) DNS
3 45 (24.06%) VPN
4 36 (19.25%) BGP
5 34 (18.18%) Network Security
6 29 (15.51%) WAN
7 23 (12.30%) TCP/IP
8 21 (11.23%) LAN
9 19 (10.16%) OSPF
10 13 (6.95%) SD-WAN
10 13 (6.95%) VLAN
11 12 (6.42%) VXLAN
12 10 (5.35%) NetScaler
12 10 (5.35%) NGFW
13 9 (4.81%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (4.81%) DHCP
13 9 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (4.28%) HTTP
14 8 (4.28%) IPsec
14 8 (4.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.28%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.74%) Big Data
4 6 (3.21%) Apache Hive
4 6 (3.21%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.21%) HBase
4 6 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.67%) MySQL
6 4 (2.14%) Redis
7 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.07%) Metadata
9 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.53%) KDB
9 1 (0.53%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.53%) Power BI
9 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.35%) Git
2 9 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.74%) GitLab
4 4 (2.14%) JIRA
5 2 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.07%) git-flow
5 2 (1.07%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.07%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 56 (29.95%) Finance
3 36 (19.25%) Law
4 29 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.42%) Legal
6 11 (5.88%) Marketing
7 9 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.74%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.21%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.21%) Military
9 6 (3.21%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.21%) Retail
10 4 (2.14%) Aviation
11 2 (1.07%) Banking
11 2 (1.07%) Electronics
12 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (25.13%) Senior
2 40 (21.39%) Network Engineer
3 29 (15.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (13.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (13.37%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (11.23%) Architect
7 20 (10.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 14 (7.49%) Senior Network Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) Lead
11 9 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Technical Support
13 7 (3.74%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 6 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
14 6 (3.21%) Senior Network Security Specialist
14 6 (3.21%) Senior Network Specialist
14 6 (3.21%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.74%) Terraform
2 10 (5.35%) Kafka
2 10 (5.35%) REST
3 9 (4.81%) OAuth
3 9 (4.81%) OAuth2
4 8 (4.28%) RESTful
5 7 (3.74%) Middleware
5 7 (3.74%) Node.js
6 6 (3.21%) JWT
7 5 (2.67%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (2.67%) OpenID
7 5 (2.67%) Web Services
8 4 (2.14%) JSON
8 4 (2.14%) Pulumi
8 4 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.14%) React
8 4 (2.14%) SOAP
8 4 (2.14%) XML
8 4 (2.14%) XML Messaging
8 4 (2.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.25%) Data Centre
2 20 (10.70%) Cloud Native
3 19 (10.16%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.35%) Driving Licence
4 10 (5.35%) Private Cloud
5 8 (4.28%) CMDB
6 7 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.74%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.21%) Replication
8 5 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.67%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.14%) Blog
9 4 (2.14%) Clustering
9 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.20%) Linux
2 37 (19.79%) Windows
3 24 (12.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.81%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.28%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.07%) Unix
6 2 (1.07%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.53%) CentOS
7 1 (0.53%) Rocky
7 1 (0.53%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (33.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 60 (32.09%) CI/CD
3 51 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 50 (26.74%) DevOps
5 47 (25.13%) Containerisation
6 46 (24.60%) High Availability
7 43 (22.99%) Agile
8 41 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (20.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 37 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (18.72%) Mentoring
12 30 (16.04%) Root Cause Analysis
13 28 (14.97%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (12.83%) Observability
14 24 (12.83%) Software Engineering
15 23 (12.30%) Analytics
16 22 (11.76%) Roadmaps
17 21 (11.23%) Business Continuity
17 21 (11.23%) Platform Engineering
17 21 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (26.74%) PowerShell
1 50 (26.74%) Python
2 22 (11.76%) SQL
3 21 (11.23%) Bash
4 13 (6.95%) Java
5 12 (6.42%) PHP
6 7 (3.74%) C
7 6 (3.21%) C#
7 6 (3.21%) Ruby
8 5 (2.67%) Bicep
8 5 (2.67%) Go
9 4 (2.14%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 41 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.04%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.51%) Azure Certification
3 29 (15.51%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (11.23%) CCNP
5 18 (9.63%) Degree
6 14 (7.49%) CCNA
6 14 (7.49%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (4.28%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (2.14%) CCSP
10 4 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.60%) CCIE
11 3 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.95%) SLA
2 10 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.81%) QA
4 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.60%) NCSC
6 2 (1.07%) GDPR
6 2 (1.07%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.53%) COBIT
7 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (14.44%) Docker
3 10 (5.35%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.81%) VMware NSX
5 8 (4.28%) Firmware
6 5 (2.67%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.67%) Squid
6 5 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.14%) vSphere
8 3 (1.60%) KVM
8 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.07%) ProxySG
9 2 (1.07%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.07%) UAG
10 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.53%) XenApp
10 1 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 69 (36.90%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.30%) Ansible
3 14 (7.49%) Grafana
3 14 (7.49%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.81%) Argo
4 9 (4.81%) FortiGate
5 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.28%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.21%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.14%) Istio
8 3 (1.60%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.60%) Puppet
8 3 (1.60%) SCCM
9 2 (1.07%) AirWatch
9 2 (1.07%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.07%) Nagios
9 2 (1.07%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.53%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.53%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 51 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 41 (21.93%) VMware
3 39 (20.86%) Cisco
4 35 (18.72%) F5
5 26 (13.90%) Palo Alto
6 15 (8.02%) Fortinet
7 12 (6.42%) Citrix
7 12 (6.42%) Meraki
8 11 (5.88%) Zscaler
9 10 (5.35%) Aruba
9 10 (5.35%) HP
9 10 (5.35%) Infoblox
10 9 (4.81%) Dell
10 9 (4.81%) Google
10 9 (4.81%) Splunk
11 8 (4.28%) Oracle
11 8 (4.28%) SonicWALL
12 7 (3.74%) SAP
12 7 (3.74%) SolarWinds
12 7 (3.74%) Veeam