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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 546 569
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 +39
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 106 82 230
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.23% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 60 54 186
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £50,313 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -6.25%
75th Percentile £71,725 £85,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £113,875 £91,875
UK median annual salary £51,680 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.31% +4.17% -

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 51,670 35,658 65,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.78% 93.55% 87.00%
Number of salaries quoted 32,008 20,224 50,768
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +23 48 £70,000 +3.70% 20
North of England -26 25 £48,445 -30.79% 11
North East - 11 £48,445 -
North West -5 8 £48,445 -39.44% 5
South East -40 8 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Yorkshire -35 6 £48,445 -30.79% 6
East of England -13 4 £57,500 -17.86% 11
South West -27 4 £36,423 -43.96% 1
Midlands -26 3 £58,750 +9.43% 6
East Midlands -43 2 £58,750 -2.08% 3
West Midlands -10 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 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.89%) IIS
4 1 (0.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) nginx
4 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (19.81%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 59 (55.66%) AWS
2 58 (54.72%) Azure
3 15 (14.15%) OCI
4 11 (10.38%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (9.43%) Amazon S3
5 10 (9.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (8.49%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (8.49%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (8.49%) IaaS
7 8 (7.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (7.55%) GCP
7 8 (7.55%) SaaS
8 7 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (6.60%) AWS Direct Connect
8 7 (6.60%) Azure AKS
9 6 (5.66%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (5.66%) Azure Storage
9 6 (5.66%) Route 53
10 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 73 (68.87%) Firewall
2 47 (44.34%) VPN
3 38 (35.85%) WAN
4 37 (34.91%) BGP
5 35 (33.02%) LAN
6 31 (29.25%) DNS
7 30 (28.30%) VLAN
8 29 (27.36%) OSPF
9 24 (22.64%) Network Security
9 24 (22.64%) Wireless
10 20 (18.87%) Cisco ASA
10 20 (18.87%) Cisco Nexus
11 19 (17.92%) SD-WAN
12 18 (16.98%) EIGRP
12 18 (16.98%) WAAS
13 17 (16.04%) NGFW
13 17 (16.04%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (16.04%) Wireshark
14 16 (15.09%) Cisco Wireless
14 16 (15.09%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.60%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.89%) MySQL
2 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) GitLab
1 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.83%) Git
3 1 (0.94%) JIRA
3 1 (0.94%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.94%) Selenium
3 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (39.62%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.87%) Finance
3 20 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 14 (13.21%) Law
5 11 (10.38%) Banking
6 8 (7.55%) Retail
6 8 (7.55%) Retail Banking
7 6 (5.66%) Back Office
7 6 (5.66%) Financial Institution
7 6 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Marketing
10 2 (1.89%) Legal
11 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (43.40%) Network Engineer
2 30 (28.30%) Senior
3 22 (20.75%) Senior Network Engineer
4 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (14.15%) Network Manager
5 15 (14.15%) Network Operations Manager
5 15 (14.15%) Operations Manager
6 9 (8.49%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Architect
10 4 (3.77%) Deployment Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Network Deployment Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) 802.1X
2 6 (5.66%) RESTful
3 2 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.89%) Node.js
4 1 (0.94%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.94%) CSS
4 1 (0.94%) HTML
4 1 (0.94%) jQuery
4 1 (0.94%) LAMP
4 1 (0.94%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.94%) Next.js
4 1 (0.94%) OAuth
4 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.94%) OpenID
4 1 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.94%) SAML
4 1 (0.94%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (57.55%) Data Centre
2 15 (14.15%) PKI
3 9 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.55%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.77%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.83%) Blog
6 3 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.83%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.89%) Replication
8 1 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.21%) Windows
2 9 (8.49%) Linux
3 8 (7.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.83%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.94%) CentOS
5 1 (0.94%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.91%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (25.47%) Root Cause Analysis
3 23 (21.70%) CI/CD
4 22 (20.75%) Mentoring
5 20 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (18.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (17.92%) Collaborative Working
6 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (17.92%) Network Monitoring
6 19 (17.92%) Project Delivery
7 18 (16.98%) Coaching
7 18 (16.98%) Computer Science
7 18 (16.98%) DevOps
7 18 (16.98%) Kalman Filter
7 18 (16.98%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (15.09%) Analytical Thinking
8 16 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (15.09%) WAN Optimisation
9 15 (14.15%) ITIL
9 15 (14.15%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 50 (47.17%) Python
2 17 (16.04%) PowerShell
3 9 (8.49%) Bash
4 6 (5.66%) Go
4 6 (5.66%) Java
5 3 (2.83%) Bicep
5 3 (2.83%) SQL
6 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (33.96%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (33.02%) CCNP
3 23 (21.70%) CCIE
4 22 (20.75%) Degree
5 18 (16.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (11.32%) Security Cleared
7 8 (7.55%) Azure Certification
7 8 (7.55%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.77%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.83%) CCSE
9 3 (2.83%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.89%) CCSA
11 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.94%) CCNA
11 1 (0.94%) CCSM
11 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.98%) PMO
2 7 (6.60%) PCI DSS
2 7 (6.60%) SOC 2
3 5 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.89%) QA
5 1 (0.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.94%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (15.09%) ProxySG
2 11 (10.38%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.49%) Docker
5 5 (4.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.77%) vSphere
7 3 (2.83%) Firmware
7 3 (2.83%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (39.62%) Terraform
2 24 (22.64%) Ansible
3 22 (20.75%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.55%) Check_MK
5 3 (2.83%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (2.83%) Grafana
5 3 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.89%) Argo
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.94%) Istio
7 1 (0.94%) Nagios
7 1 (0.94%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (48.11%) Cisco
2 29 (27.36%) SolarWinds
3 28 (26.42%) F5
4 26 (24.53%) CheckPoint
5 22 (20.75%) Infoblox
6 20 (18.87%) Palo Alto
7 18 (16.98%) Motorola
8 17 (16.04%) Blue Coat
9 16 (15.09%) ServiceNow
10 15 (14.15%) Arista
10 15 (14.15%) Aruba
10 15 (14.15%) Microsoft
10 15 (14.15%) NetScout
11 14 (13.21%) VMware
12 7 (6.60%) Fortinet
13 5 (4.72%) Dell
14 4 (3.77%) Splunk
15 3 (2.83%) EMC
16 2 (1.89%) Meraki
16 2 (1.89%) Red Hat