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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 549 631
Rank change year-on-year +10 +82 -82
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 166 74 225
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.20% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 124 46 186
10th Percentile £46,446 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,125 £91,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +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 59,579 36,425 76,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.93% 92.76% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 41,667 19,839 55,940
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +8 57 £80,000 +45.45% 18
North of England -6 36 £52,500 -30.00% 15
South East +1 28 £60,000 -22.58% 17
Midlands -9 17 £60,000 +20.38% 1
North West +18 15 £52,500 +10.53% 13
North East - 12 £48,445 - 1
East of England -3 11 £60,000 -7.69% 2
East Midlands -15 9 £60,000 -
Yorkshire -43 9 £48,445 -39.44% 1
West Midlands -20 8 £67,500 +46.74% 1
South West -49 5 £36,423 -21.25% 4
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 9 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.01%) IIS
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.81%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.20%) Confluence
4 2 (1.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.60%) WildFly
Applications
1 14 (8.43%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 100 (60.24%) Azure
2 73 (43.98%) AWS
3 34 (20.48%) Azure AKS
3 34 (20.48%) IaaS
4 29 (17.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 28 (16.87%) Azure Key Vault
5 28 (16.87%) Azure Storage
6 19 (11.45%) GCP
7 15 (9.04%) OCI
8 9 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.82%) PaaS
9 8 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.22%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.22%) OpenShift
10 7 (4.22%) SaaS
11 6 (3.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 91 (54.82%) Firewall
2 56 (33.73%) DNS
3 54 (32.53%) VPN
4 44 (26.51%) BGP
5 42 (25.30%) WAN
6 35 (21.08%) LAN
6 35 (21.08%) OSPF
7 34 (20.48%) Network Security
8 30 (18.07%) VLAN
9 25 (15.06%) VXLAN
10 23 (13.86%) NGFW
11 21 (12.65%) Cisco Nexus
12 19 (11.45%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (10.84%) Cisco Firepower
13 18 (10.84%) Wireless
14 17 (10.24%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (9.64%) SD-WAN
15 16 (9.64%) TCP/IP
16 15 (9.04%) Wireshark
17 14 (8.43%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.61%) MySQL
3 5 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.81%) Redis
6 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.82%) GitLab
2 5 (3.01%) Git
3 3 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) JIRA
4 2 (1.20%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.20%) Selenium
General
1 53 (31.93%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (22.29%) Law
3 33 (19.88%) Social Skills
4 23 (13.86%) Finance
5 20 (12.05%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.82%) Retail
6 8 (4.82%) Retail Banking
7 7 (4.22%) Banking
7 7 (4.22%) Legal
8 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.81%) Aviation
9 3 (1.81%) Back Office
9 3 (1.81%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.60%) Advertising
11 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (31.33%) Network Engineer
2 44 (26.51%) Senior
3 37 (22.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (19.88%) Azure Engineer
5 28 (16.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 23 (13.86%) Senior Network Engineer
7 22 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (9.64%) Network Manager
9 15 (9.04%) Network Operations Manager
9 15 (9.04%) Operations Manager
10 11 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (6.02%) Architect
11 10 (6.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.42%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
15 6 (3.61%) Analyst
16 5 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
16 5 (3.01%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 5 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.42%) RESTful
2 8 (4.82%) 802.1X
3 6 (3.61%) OAuth
3 6 (3.61%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.01%) Kafka
4 5 (3.01%) Middleware
4 5 (3.01%) REST
5 4 (2.41%) JSON
5 4 (2.41%) JWT
5 4 (2.41%) Node.js
5 4 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.41%) SOAP
5 4 (2.41%) XML
5 4 (2.41%) XML Messaging
6 3 (1.81%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.81%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.81%) LAMP
6 3 (1.81%) YAML
7 2 (1.20%) CSS
7 2 (1.20%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 66 (39.76%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.04%) PKI
3 13 (7.83%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.61%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.01%) Replication
7 4 (2.41%) CMDB
7 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.81%) Blog
8 3 (1.81%) Clustering
8 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.06%) Linux
2 16 (9.64%) Windows
3 7 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.81%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.20%) CentOS
5 2 (1.20%) Rocky
6 1 (0.60%) Solaris
6 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (30.72%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (30.12%) Root Cause Analysis
3 44 (26.51%) Containerisation
4 43 (25.90%) Agile
4 43 (25.90%) High Availability
5 38 (22.89%) CI/CD
6 37 (22.29%) DevOps
7 36 (21.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (19.88%) Mentoring
9 32 (19.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (13.86%) Coaching
11 21 (12.65%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (12.05%) Collaborative Working
12 20 (12.05%) Computer Science
13 19 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (10.84%) Project Delivery
15 17 (10.24%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (10.24%) ITIL
16 16 (9.64%) ITSM
16 16 (9.64%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 52 (31.33%) Python
2 39 (23.49%) PowerShell
3 17 (10.24%) SQL
4 13 (7.83%) Bash
5 8 (4.82%) Java
6 6 (3.61%) Go
7 3 (1.81%) Bicep
7 3 (1.81%) PHP
8 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 41 (24.70%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (21.69%) CCNP
3 34 (20.48%) Azure Certification
4 22 (13.25%) Security Cleared
5 21 (12.65%) Degree
6 19 (11.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (9.64%) CCIE
8 15 (9.04%) SC Cleared
9 12 (7.23%) CCNA
10 8 (4.82%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.81%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.60%) CCSE
13 1 (0.60%) CCSM
13 1 (0.60%) CCSP
13 1 (0.60%) CISM
13 1 (0.60%) CISSP
13 1 (0.60%) IISP
13 1 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.43%) PMO
2 6 (3.61%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.61%) QA
3 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.81%) SLA
4 3 (1.81%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.20%) GDPR
5 2 (1.20%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.60%) COBIT
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (8.43%) Docker
1 14 (8.43%) ProxySG
2 13 (7.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.01%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.41%) Firmware
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.60%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.60%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (37.35%) Kubernetes
2 51 (30.72%) Terraform
3 33 (19.88%) Ansible
4 9 (5.42%) Check_MK
5 8 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.01%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.41%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.41%) Grafana
7 4 (2.41%) Nagios
8 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.81%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.20%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.20%) Istio
9 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.60%) Argo
10 1 (0.60%) Cilium
10 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (29.52%) Cisco
2 30 (18.07%) Microsoft
3 28 (16.87%) F5
4 27 (16.27%) Palo Alto
5 25 (15.06%) SolarWinds
6 21 (12.65%) Aruba
7 20 (12.05%) Arista
7 20 (12.05%) VMware
8 19 (11.45%) CheckPoint
9 17 (10.24%) Infoblox
10 15 (9.04%) Blue Coat
10 15 (9.04%) NetScout
11 14 (8.43%) Motorola
11 14 (8.43%) ServiceNow
12 11 (6.63%) Fortinet
13 7 (4.22%) Dell
13 7 (4.22%) Red Hat
14 6 (3.61%) Zscaler
15 4 (2.41%) HP
15 4 (2.41%) Splunk