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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 546 588
Rank change year-on-year -29 +42 -124
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 187 90 163
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 113 38 92
10th Percentile £53,000 £51,100 £39,775
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +30.43% +0.88%
75th Percentile £77,500 £89,375 £70,156
90th Percentile £88,250 £108,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,788 £75,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +29.31% +1.31%

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 76,488 38,338 53,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.64% 88.97% 82.73%
Number of salaries quoted 53,556 21,844 28,773
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 October 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 October 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 -38 67 £80,000 +23.08% 107
South East -29 40 £60,000 -25.00% 25
North of England -40 25 £65,576 -22.85% 19
Midlands -23 22 £60,000 - 14
South West -54 22 £66,250 +26.19% 9
North West -6 17 £67,788 - 9
West Midlands -34 16 £62,500 - 11
East of England -30 9 £60,000 +4.35% 3
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 3
Yorkshire -32 4 £65,576 -22.85% 9
North East - 4 £65,576 - 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 16 (8.56%) nginx
2 15 (8.02%) SharePoint
3 14 (7.49%) Apache
4 11 (5.88%) IIS
5 6 (3.21%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.14%) Confluence
7 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.53%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.99%) Azure
2 59 (31.55%) AWS
3 28 (14.97%) GCP
4 26 (13.90%) Azure AKS
5 25 (13.37%) IaaS
6 19 (10.16%) Azure Key Vault
7 18 (9.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (9.09%) Azure Storage
9 13 (6.95%) GitHub
9 13 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (6.42%) Entra ID
10 12 (6.42%) Serverless
11 11 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (5.88%) PaaS
12 10 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (5.35%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 95 (50.80%) Firewall
2 85 (45.45%) DNS
3 47 (25.13%) VPN
4 37 (19.79%) BGP
5 35 (18.72%) Network Security
6 30 (16.04%) WAN
7 24 (12.83%) TCP/IP
8 23 (12.30%) LAN
9 19 (10.16%) OSPF
10 15 (8.02%) SD-WAN
10 15 (8.02%) VLAN
11 12 (6.42%) VXLAN
12 11 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (5.35%) DHCP
13 10 (5.35%) NetScaler
13 10 (5.35%) NGFW
14 9 (4.81%) Wireless
15 8 (4.28%) IPsec
15 8 (4.28%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.28%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.74%) Big Data
3 7 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.21%) Apache Hive
4 6 (3.21%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.21%) HBase
5 5 (2.67%) MySQL
6 4 (2.14%) Redis
7 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.07%) Metadata
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.53%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.35%) Git
2 9 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.74%) GitLab
4 4 (2.14%) JIRA
5 2 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.07%) git-flow
5 2 (1.07%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.07%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 55 (29.41%) Finance
3 36 (19.25%) Law
4 28 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.42%) Legal
6 11 (5.88%) Marketing
7 9 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.74%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.21%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.21%) Military
9 6 (3.21%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.21%) Retail
10 4 (2.14%) Aviation
11 2 (1.07%) Banking
11 2 (1.07%) Electronics
11 2 (1.07%) French Language
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (25.67%) Senior
2 42 (22.46%) Network Engineer
3 29 (15.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (13.37%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (10.70%) Architect
6 20 (10.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 15 (8.02%) Senior Network Engineer
9 12 (6.42%) Lead
10 9 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Technical Support
12 7 (3.74%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 6 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (3.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Senior Network Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.27%) Terraform
2 9 (4.81%) Kafka
2 9 (4.81%) REST
3 8 (4.28%) OAuth
3 8 (4.28%) OAuth2
4 7 (3.74%) Node.js
4 7 (3.74%) RESTful
5 6 (3.21%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (3.21%) Middleware
6 5 (2.67%) JWT
6 5 (2.67%) OpenID
6 5 (2.67%) Web Services
7 4 (2.14%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.14%) Pulumi
7 4 (2.14%) React
7 4 (2.14%) YAML
8 3 (1.60%) JSON
8 3 (1.60%) Micronaut
8 3 (1.60%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.25%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.63%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.35%) Driving Licence
3 10 (5.35%) Private Cloud
4 8 (4.28%) CMDB
5 7 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.74%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.21%) Replication
7 5 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.14%) Blog
8 4 (2.14%) Clustering
8 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (26.74%) Linux
2 37 (19.79%) Windows
3 24 (12.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.81%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.28%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.07%) Unix
6 2 (1.07%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.53%) CentOS
7 1 (0.53%) Rocky
7 1 (0.53%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 59 (31.55%) CI/CD
3 50 (26.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 49 (26.20%) DevOps
4 49 (26.20%) High Availability
5 46 (24.60%) Containerisation
6 43 (22.99%) Agile
7 38 (20.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 37 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (18.72%) Mentoring
10 30 (16.04%) Root Cause Analysis
11 27 (14.44%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (13.37%) Observability
13 23 (12.30%) Analytics
13 23 (12.30%) Software Engineering
14 21 (11.23%) AI
14 21 (11.23%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (11.23%) Roadmaps
14 21 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (26.74%) PowerShell
1 50 (26.74%) Python
2 21 (11.23%) Bash
2 21 (11.23%) SQL
3 12 (6.42%) Java
3 12 (6.42%) PHP
4 7 (3.74%) C
5 6 (3.21%) C#
5 6 (3.21%) Ruby
6 5 (2.67%) Bicep
6 5 (2.67%) Go
7 4 (2.14%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 42 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.04%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.97%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (14.44%) Azure Certification
5 22 (11.76%) CCNP
6 16 (8.56%) Degree
7 15 (8.02%) DV Cleared
8 14 (7.49%) CCNA
9 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (3.74%) AWS Certification
10 7 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (3.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.60%) CCIE
12 3 (1.60%) CCSP
12 3 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.95%) SLA
2 11 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.28%) QA
4 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.60%) NCSC
6 2 (1.07%) GDPR
6 2 (1.07%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.53%) NIST
7 1 (0.53%) SOC 1
System Software
1 34 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (13.90%) Docker
3 11 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 10 (5.35%) VMware NSX
5 8 (4.28%) Firmware
6 5 (2.67%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.67%) Squid
6 5 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.14%) vSphere
8 3 (1.60%) KVM
8 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.07%) ProxySG
9 2 (1.07%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.07%) UAG
10 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.53%) XenApp
10 1 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.30%) Ansible
3 15 (8.02%) Grafana
4 14 (7.49%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.81%) Argo
5 9 (4.81%) FortiGate
6 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (4.28%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (3.21%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.14%) Istio
9 3 (1.60%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.60%) Puppet
9 3 (1.60%) SCCM
10 2 (1.07%) AirWatch
10 2 (1.07%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.07%) Nagios
10 2 (1.07%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.53%) linkerd
11 1 (0.53%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 49 (26.20%) Microsoft
2 42 (22.46%) VMware
3 41 (21.93%) Cisco
4 38 (20.32%) F5
5 27 (14.44%) Palo Alto
6 17 (9.09%) Fortinet
7 13 (6.95%) Infoblox
8 12 (6.42%) Aruba
8 12 (6.42%) Citrix
9 11 (5.88%) Meraki
9 11 (5.88%) Zscaler
10 10 (5.35%) HP
11 9 (4.81%) Google
11 9 (4.81%) Splunk
12 8 (4.28%) Dell
12 8 (4.28%) Oracle
12 8 (4.28%) SonicWALL
13 7 (3.74%) IBM
13 7 (3.74%) SAP
13 7 (3.74%) Veeam