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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 561 585
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 -105
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 191 96 164
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.22% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 127 50 115
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,025 £40,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £97,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%

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 71,357 38,940 57,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.80% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50,719 22,637 35,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -39 67 £80,000 +23.08% 66
South East -12 47 £60,000 -25.00% 14
Midlands -20 24 £60,000 +30.43% 4
North of England -37 24 £65,576 -12.57% 22
North West +3 15 £59,038 +24.29% 14
West Midlands -20 15 £62,500 +35.87% 4
South West -63 13 £62,500 +35.14% 15
East of England -6 12 £60,000 -2.04% 5
East Midlands -20 9 £60,000 -
North East - 5 £65,576 -
Yorkshire -40 4 £65,576 -18.03% 8
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 16 (8.38%) nginx
2 14 (7.33%) SharePoint
3 12 (6.28%) Apache
4 11 (5.76%) IIS
5 6 (3.14%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.09%) Confluence
7 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.57%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.52%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (2.09%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (49.21%) Azure
2 68 (35.60%) AWS
3 37 (19.37%) Azure AKS
4 35 (18.32%) IaaS
5 31 (16.23%) GCP
6 28 (14.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 28 (14.66%) Azure Key Vault
6 28 (14.66%) Azure Storage
7 12 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (6.28%) Serverless
8 11 (5.76%) Entra ID
9 10 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.24%) GitHub
9 10 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.24%) PaaS
10 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (4.71%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 87 (45.55%) Firewall
2 82 (42.93%) DNS
3 48 (25.13%) VPN
4 38 (19.90%) BGP
5 35 (18.32%) Network Security
6 32 (16.75%) WAN
7 27 (14.14%) LAN
8 23 (12.04%) OSPF
9 21 (10.99%) TCP/IP
10 19 (9.95%) VLAN
11 14 (7.33%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (6.81%) SD-WAN
13 12 (6.28%) VXLAN
14 11 (5.76%) Wireless
15 10 (5.24%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (5.24%) Cisco Firepower
15 10 (5.24%) NGFW
16 8 (4.19%) MPLS
16 8 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (3.66%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.19%) MySQL
2 8 (4.19%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.66%) Big Data
3 7 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.14%) Apache Hive
4 6 (3.14%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.14%) HBase
5 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.09%) Redis
6 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.52%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (6.81%) Git
2 7 (3.66%) GitLab
2 7 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.09%) JIRA
3 4 (2.09%) PHPUnit
3 4 (2.09%) Selenium
4 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.05%) git-flow
5 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 53 (27.75%) Finance
3 46 (24.08%) Law
4 30 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.28%) Legal
6 11 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.76%) Marketing
7 9 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.71%) Retail
8 6 (3.14%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.14%) Military
8 6 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.62%) Banking
9 5 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.09%) Aviation
11 2 (1.05%) Electronics
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (26.70%) Senior
2 45 (23.56%) Network Engineer
3 41 (21.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (18.32%) Azure Engineer
5 28 (14.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 23 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (8.38%) Senior Network Engineer
8 15 (7.85%) Architect
8 15 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.24%) Lead
10 9 (4.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.71%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 7 (3.66%) Technical Support
13 6 (3.14%) Network Security Specialist
13 6 (3.14%) Senior Network Security Specialist
13 6 (3.14%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.18%) Terraform
2 11 (5.76%) Kafka
3 10 (5.24%) REST
4 9 (4.71%) Node.js
5 6 (3.14%) OAuth
5 6 (3.14%) OAuth2
5 6 (3.14%) RESTful
6 5 (2.62%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.62%) LAMP
6 5 (2.62%) Middleware
6 5 (2.62%) Web Services
7 4 (2.09%) CSS
7 4 (2.09%) HTML
7 4 (2.09%) jQuery
7 4 (2.09%) JSON
7 4 (2.09%) JWT
7 4 (2.09%) SOAP
7 4 (2.09%) XHTML
7 4 (2.09%) XML
7 4 (2.09%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.85%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.42%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.24%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.19%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.66%) CMDB
5 7 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.14%) Replication
7 5 (2.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.62%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.09%) Blog
8 4 (2.09%) Clustering
8 4 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.57%) Social Media
10 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 50 (26.18%) Linux
2 31 (16.23%) Windows
3 21 (10.99%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.24%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.62%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.05%) CentOS
6 2 (1.05%) Rocky
6 2 (1.05%) Unix
7 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (31.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 56 (29.32%) CI/CD
2 56 (29.32%) High Availability
3 55 (28.80%) Containerisation
4 54 (28.27%) Agile
5 48 (25.13%) DevOps
6 44 (23.04%) Root Cause Analysis
7 42 (21.99%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (16.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (15.71%) Mentoring
12 25 (13.09%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (12.57%) Software Engineering
14 23 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (11.52%) Roadmaps
16 21 (10.99%) Analytics
17 20 (10.47%) Migration
18 19 (9.95%) AI
18 19 (9.95%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.27%) PowerShell
2 52 (27.23%) Python
3 24 (12.57%) SQL
4 21 (10.99%) Bash
5 14 (7.33%) PHP
6 13 (6.81%) Java
7 7 (3.66%) C
7 7 (3.66%) Go
8 6 (3.14%) C#
8 6 (3.14%) Ruby
9 5 (2.62%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.09%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 39 (20.42%) Azure Certification
2 35 (18.32%) Security Cleared
3 32 (16.75%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (14.66%) SC Cleared
5 27 (14.14%) CCNP
6 18 (9.42%) Degree
7 11 (5.76%) CCNA
8 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (5.24%) DV Cleared
9 8 (4.19%) AWS Certification
9 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (3.66%) CCIE
11 6 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.24%) QA
1 10 (5.24%) SLA
2 8 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.62%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.09%) PMO
5 3 (1.57%) NCSC
6 2 (1.05%) GDPR
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (15.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (14.14%) Docker
3 10 (5.24%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.14%) Firmware
4 6 (3.14%) ProxySG
4 6 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (3.14%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.62%) Squid
6 4 (2.09%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.57%) KVM
8 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.05%) vSphere
9 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 79 (41.36%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.09%) Ansible
3 12 (6.28%) Grafana
4 11 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.66%) Argo
7 6 (3.14%) FortiGate
7 6 (3.14%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (3.14%) Istio
7 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.62%) Nagios
9 3 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.57%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.57%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.57%) Puppet
10 2 (1.05%) Check_MK
10 2 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.52%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 39 (20.42%) Cisco
3 37 (19.37%) VMware
4 28 (14.66%) F5
5 24 (12.57%) Palo Alto
6 14 (7.33%) Fortinet
7 13 (6.81%) Zscaler
8 11 (5.76%) Infoblox
8 11 (5.76%) SolarWinds
9 10 (5.24%) CheckPoint
9 10 (5.24%) Citrix
9 10 (5.24%) HP
9 10 (5.24%) Meraki
10 9 (4.71%) Aruba
10 9 (4.71%) Google
10 9 (4.71%) Oracle
10 9 (4.71%) Red Hat
10 9 (4.71%) Veeam
11 7 (3.66%) ServiceNow
11 7 (3.66%) Splunk