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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 544 567
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +14
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 126 79 249
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 84 55 205
10th Percentile £43,000 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £50,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £86,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £89,500
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 59,771 35,248 71,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.96% 93.04% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37,816 20,543 53,619
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +3 51 £75,000 +11.11% 16
North of England -35 25 £48,445 -30.79% 10
South East -30 17 £60,000 -2.04% 13
North East - 11 £48,445 - 4
North West -28 8 £48,445 -39.44% 6
Midlands -37 8 £58,750 +11.97% 4
East of England -15 7 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Yorkshire -59 6 £48,445 -30.79%
South West -43 5 £36,423 -21.25% 2
East Midlands -45 5 £60,000 - 3
West Midlands -38 3 £35,866 -30.02% 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 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.97%) IIS
3 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.59%) Confluence
4 2 (1.59%) nginx
4 2 (1.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 72 (57.14%) Azure
2 64 (50.79%) AWS
3 20 (15.87%) IaaS
4 19 (15.08%) Azure AKS
5 18 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 16 (12.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 16 (12.70%) Azure Storage
7 15 (11.90%) OCI
8 12 (9.52%) GCP
9 9 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.35%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.35%) SaaS
10 8 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.97%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.97%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 78 (61.90%) Firewall
2 50 (39.68%) VPN
3 42 (33.33%) DNS
4 41 (32.54%) WAN
5 36 (28.57%) BGP
6 35 (27.78%) LAN
7 31 (24.60%) VLAN
8 28 (22.22%) OSPF
9 24 (19.05%) Network Security
10 20 (15.87%) Wireless
11 18 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
11 18 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
12 17 (13.49%) NGFW
12 17 (13.49%) SD-WAN
13 16 (12.70%) Cisco Wireless
13 16 (12.70%) EIGRP
13 16 (12.70%) SNMP
13 16 (12.70%) VXLAN
13 16 (12.70%) WAAS
13 16 (12.70%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.17%) MySQL
2 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.56%) GitLab
2 5 (3.97%) Git
3 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.59%) JIRA
4 2 (1.59%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.59%) Selenium
5 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (37.30%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.46%) Finance
4 21 (16.67%) Law
5 20 (15.87%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.94%) Banking
7 9 (7.14%) Retail
8 8 (6.35%) Retail Banking
9 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.17%) Back Office
10 4 (3.17%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.59%) Legal
13 1 (0.79%) Advertising
13 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (34.92%) Network Engineer
2 33 (26.19%) Senior
3 22 (17.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 19 (15.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (12.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 16 (12.70%) Network Manager
8 15 (11.90%) Network Operations Manager
8 15 (11.90%) Operations Manager
9 11 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Architect
11 6 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.17%) Analyst
14 3 (2.38%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.35%) 802.1X
2 7 (5.56%) RESTful
3 4 (3.17%) Kafka
3 4 (3.17%) OAuth
3 4 (3.17%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (2.38%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.38%) JSON
4 3 (2.38%) JWT
4 3 (2.38%) Middleware
4 3 (2.38%) Node.js
4 3 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.38%) REST
4 3 (2.38%) SOAP
4 3 (2.38%) XML
4 3 (2.38%) XML Messaging
5 2 (1.59%) CSS
5 2 (1.59%) HTML
5 2 (1.59%) LAMP
5 2 (1.59%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (47.62%) Data Centre
2 15 (11.90%) PKI
3 11 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (7.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.38%) Blog
6 3 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.79%) Clustering
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.70%) Windows
2 15 (11.90%) Linux
3 10 (7.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.38%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.59%) CentOS
5 2 (1.59%) Rocky
6 1 (0.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (29.37%) Root Cause Analysis
3 28 (22.22%) Agile
3 28 (22.22%) High Availability
4 27 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 26 (20.63%) DevOps
6 24 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 24 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 23 (18.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (15.87%) Computer Science
11 19 (15.08%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (14.29%) Project Delivery
13 17 (13.49%) Coaching
13 17 (13.49%) Network Monitoring
14 16 (12.70%) Analytical Thinking
14 16 (12.70%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (12.70%) Kalman Filter
14 16 (12.70%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.10%) Python
2 25 (19.84%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.14%) Bash
4 7 (5.56%) Java
4 7 (5.56%) SQL
5 6 (4.76%) Go
6 3 (2.38%) Bicep
7 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (26.98%) CCNP
3 23 (18.25%) Degree
4 20 (15.87%) Azure Certification
5 19 (15.08%) CCIE
5 19 (15.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (11.11%) Security Cleared
7 7 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.38%) CCNA
8 3 (2.38%) CCSE
8 3 (2.38%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.59%) CCSA
9 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.79%) CCSM
10 1 (0.79%) CISM
10 1 (0.79%) IISP
10 1 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.70%) PMO
2 7 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.97%) QA
3 5 (3.97%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.79%) COBIT
5 1 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (12.70%) ProxySG
2 13 (10.32%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.32%) Docker
3 11 (8.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.97%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.17%) Firmware
5 4 (3.17%) vSphere
6 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (34.13%) Terraform
2 37 (29.37%) Kubernetes
3 29 (23.02%) Ansible
4 9 (7.14%) Check_MK
5 4 (3.17%) Grafana
5 4 (3.17%) Nagios
5 4 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.38%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.59%) Istio
7 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.59%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.79%) Argo
8 1 (0.79%) Cilium
8 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 48 (38.10%) Cisco
2 27 (21.43%) SolarWinds
3 26 (20.63%) F5
4 23 (18.25%) CheckPoint
5 22 (17.46%) Microsoft
6 21 (16.67%) Infoblox
7 19 (15.08%) Palo Alto
8 18 (14.29%) VMware
9 17 (13.49%) Blue Coat
10 16 (12.70%) Motorola
10 16 (12.70%) ServiceNow
11 15 (11.90%) Arista
11 15 (11.90%) Aruba
11 15 (11.90%) NetScout
12 8 (6.35%) Dell
12 8 (6.35%) Fortinet
13 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
14 4 (3.17%) Splunk
14 4 (3.17%) Zscaler
15 2 (1.59%) Databricks