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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 563 609
Rank change year-on-year +21 +46 -110
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 186 91 173
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 123 54 133
10th Percentile £51,500 £44,675 £41,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £78,125 £86,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £93,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +11.79%

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 67,804 39,039 59,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.79% 89.57% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 47,813 22,613 39,487
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 4 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 4 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 -28 66 £80,000 +23.08% 59
South East +2 47 £60,000 -22.58% 15
North of England -19 26 £65,576 -12.57% 31
Midlands -26 20 £60,000 +30.43% 5
North West +9 16 £59,038 +24.29% 19
East of England -14 12 £60,000 -7.69% 4
West Midlands -27 11 £63,750 +38.59% 5
South West -51 10 £62,500 +35.14% 12
East Midlands -11 9 £60,000 -
North East - 7 £65,576 - 3
Yorkshire -37 3 £65,576 -18.03% 9
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 11 (5.91%) nginx
2 10 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.30%) Apache
4 7 (3.76%) IIS
5 6 (3.23%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.61%) Confluence
6 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.61%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.54%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (4.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (50.00%) Azure
2 68 (36.56%) AWS
3 37 (19.89%) Azure AKS
4 34 (18.28%) IaaS
5 28 (15.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 28 (15.05%) Azure Key Vault
5 28 (15.05%) Azure Storage
5 28 (15.05%) GCP
6 12 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (6.45%) Serverless
7 10 (5.38%) GitHub
7 10 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.84%) OpenShift
8 9 (4.84%) PaaS
9 8 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.76%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (3.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 89 (47.85%) Firewall
2 79 (42.47%) DNS
3 55 (29.57%) VPN
4 44 (23.66%) BGP
5 39 (20.97%) WAN
6 38 (20.43%) Network Security
7 34 (18.28%) LAN
8 30 (16.13%) OSPF
9 23 (12.37%) VLAN
10 21 (11.29%) TCP/IP
11 18 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
12 17 (9.14%) SD-WAN
13 15 (8.06%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (7.53%) Wireless
15 13 (6.99%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (6.45%) VXLAN
17 10 (5.38%) Cisco ISE
17 10 (5.38%) NGFW
18 8 (4.30%) Cisco Wireless
18 8 (4.30%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.30%) MySQL
2 8 (4.30%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.76%) Big Data
3 7 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.23%) Apache Hive
4 6 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.23%) HBase
5 4 (2.15%) Redis
6 3 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.38%) Git
2 7 (3.76%) GitLab
3 5 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.15%) PHPUnit
4 4 (2.15%) Selenium
5 3 (1.61%) JIRA
6 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) git-flow
6 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.27%) Finance
3 42 (22.58%) Law
4 33 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.91%) Legal
6 10 (5.38%) Marketing
7 9 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.84%) Retail
8 7 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.23%) Military
10 5 (2.69%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.69%) Retail Banking
11 4 (2.15%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.15%) Aviation
11 4 (2.15%) Banking
11 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.08%) Electronics
13 1 (0.54%) Advertising
13 1 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 51 (27.42%) Network Engineer
2 50 (26.88%) Senior
3 40 (21.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (18.28%) Azure Engineer
5 28 (15.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 20 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (10.22%) Senior Network Engineer
8 15 (8.06%) Architect
9 14 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 6 (3.23%) Network Security Specialist
13 6 (3.23%) Network Specialist
13 6 (3.23%) Security Specialist
13 6 (3.23%) Senior Network Security Specialist
13 6 (3.23%) Senior Network Specialist
13 6 (3.23%) Senior Security Specialist
13 6 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.91%) Kafka
2 9 (4.84%) Node.js
2 9 (4.84%) REST
3 6 (3.23%) OAuth
3 6 (3.23%) OAuth2
3 6 (3.23%) RESTful
4 5 (2.69%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.69%) LAMP
4 5 (2.69%) Middleware
4 5 (2.69%) Web Services
5 4 (2.15%) CSS
5 4 (2.15%) HTML
5 4 (2.15%) jQuery
5 4 (2.15%) JSON
5 4 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.15%) SOAP
5 4 (2.15%) XHTML
5 4 (2.15%) XML
5 4 (2.15%) XML Messaging
5 4 (2.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.12%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.14%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.60%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.38%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.76%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.23%) CMDB
6 6 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.23%) Replication
7 5 (2.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.69%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.15%) Clustering
8 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Blog
9 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.61%) Social Media
10 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (24.19%) Linux
2 26 (13.98%) Windows
3 17 (9.14%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.69%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.08%) CentOS
6 2 (1.08%) Rocky
6 2 (1.08%) Unix
7 1 (0.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 53 (28.49%) Containerisation
3 52 (27.96%) Agile
3 52 (27.96%) High Availability
4 50 (26.88%) CI/CD
5 46 (24.73%) DevOps
6 45 (24.19%) Root Cause Analysis
7 43 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (17.74%) Disaster Recovery
9 31 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (15.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (15.05%) Mentoring
12 22 (11.83%) Collaborative Working
12 22 (11.83%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (11.83%) Roadmaps
13 21 (11.29%) Computer Science
14 20 (10.75%) Analytics
15 19 (10.22%) Software Engineering
15 19 (10.22%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (9.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 50 (26.88%) Python
2 48 (25.81%) PowerShell
3 24 (12.90%) SQL
4 18 (9.68%) Bash
5 14 (7.53%) PHP
6 12 (6.45%) Java
7 7 (3.76%) C
8 6 (3.23%) C#
8 6 (3.23%) Go
8 6 (3.23%) Ruby
9 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.61%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 39 (20.97%) Azure Certification
2 38 (20.43%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (17.74%) CCNP
3 33 (17.74%) Security Cleared
4 26 (13.98%) SC Cleared
5 22 (11.83%) Degree
6 14 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.91%) CCIE
7 11 (5.91%) CCNA
8 10 (5.38%) DV Cleared
9 8 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (3.23%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.84%) QA
2 8 (4.30%) PMO
3 6 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.23%) SLA
4 5 (2.69%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.08%) GDPR
5 2 (1.08%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) COBIT
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (12.90%) Docker
1 24 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (5.38%) ProxySG
3 9 (4.84%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.69%) Firmware
5 5 (2.69%) Squid
5 5 (2.69%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.15%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.61%) KVM
8 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.54%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (40.86%) Kubernetes
2 45 (24.19%) Terraform
3 23 (12.37%) Ansible
4 12 (6.45%) Grafana
5 10 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.76%) Argo
8 6 (3.23%) Check_MK
8 6 (3.23%) FortiGate
8 6 (3.23%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (3.23%) Istio
8 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.69%) Nagios
10 3 (1.61%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.61%) Proxmox
11 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.08%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.08%) Puppet
11 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 46 (24.73%) Cisco
2 41 (22.04%) Microsoft
3 32 (17.20%) VMware
4 29 (15.59%) F5
5 28 (15.05%) Palo Alto
6 18 (9.68%) SolarWinds
7 15 (8.06%) CheckPoint
8 14 (7.53%) Fortinet
8 14 (7.53%) Infoblox
9 13 (6.99%) Zscaler
10 10 (5.38%) Blue Coat
10 10 (5.38%) HP
10 10 (5.38%) ServiceNow
11 9 (4.84%) Aruba
11 9 (4.84%) Google
11 9 (4.84%) Oracle
11 9 (4.84%) Veeam
12 8 (4.30%) Meraki
12 8 (4.30%) Motorola
12 8 (4.30%) Red Hat