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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 546 479
Rank change year-on-year +18 -67 +121
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 84 128 231
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.27% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.29% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 38 63 189
10th Percentile £44,250 £44,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 43,328 43,506 47,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.78% 91.02% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 26,008 21,252 36,787
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £78,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -7.26%

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 January 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 January 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 +73 49 £67,500 -3.57% 19
North of England +6 12 £48,445 -30.79% 30
North East +9 6 £48,445 - 6
South East -4 5 £51,250 -14.58% 46
East of England +24 3 £57,500 -17.86% 30
North West +5 3 £48,445 -29.79% 12
South West -6 3 - - 20
Yorkshire -18 3 £48,445 -30.79% 12
West Midlands +16 2 - - 7
Midlands +10 2 - - 21
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 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.76%) IIS
3 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.38%) Apache
4 2 (2.38%) JBoss
4 2 (2.38%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.19%) CMS
5 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (26.19%) MS Visio
2 10 (11.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (57.14%) Azure
2 37 (44.05%) AWS
3 8 (9.52%) OCI
4 6 (7.14%) GCP
5 5 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (4.76%) SaaS
6 4 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.57%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.57%) Route 53
8 2 (2.38%) IaaS
9 1 (1.19%) Datadog
9 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.19%) PaaS
9 1 (1.19%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 58 (69.05%) Firewall
2 39 (46.43%) LAN
3 34 (40.48%) WAN
4 31 (36.90%) VPN
5 27 (32.14%) BGP
5 27 (32.14%) Wireless
6 23 (27.38%) DNS
7 22 (26.19%) OSPF
8 20 (23.81%) Network Security
9 19 (22.62%) SD-WAN
10 18 (21.43%) Wireshark
11 16 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (17.86%) EIGRP
12 15 (17.86%) VLAN
13 13 (15.48%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (15.48%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (14.29%) WAAS
15 11 (13.10%) TCP/IP
16 10 (11.90%) Cisco Wireless
16 10 (11.90%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.19%) MySQL
2 1 (1.19%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.57%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) GitLab
2 3 (3.57%) JIRA
2 3 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.38%) Ant
3 2 (2.38%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.38%) Maven
4 1 (1.19%) MSBuild
General
1 29 (34.52%) Analytical Skills
1 29 (34.52%) Finance
2 27 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Telecoms
4 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.95%) Banking
5 5 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.95%) Law
6 4 (4.76%) Marketing
6 4 (4.76%) Retail
7 3 (3.57%) Back Office
7 3 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.38%) Legal
9 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (52.38%) Network Engineer
2 26 (30.95%) Senior
3 22 (26.19%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Network Manager
6 8 (9.52%) Network Operations Manager
6 8 (9.52%) Operations Manager
7 7 (8.33%) Analyst
8 6 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Network Deployment Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Network Support
10 4 (4.76%) Network Support Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) 802.1X
1 3 (3.57%) RESTful
2 2 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.38%) Kafka
2 2 (2.38%) Middleware
3 1 (1.19%) .NET
3 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.19%) Next.js
3 1 (1.19%) Node.js
3 1 (1.19%) OAuth
3 1 (1.19%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.19%) OpenID
3 1 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 11 (13.10%) Management Information System
3 9 (10.71%) PKI
4 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.57%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) Web3
6 2 (2.38%) Replication
7 1 (1.19%) Clustering
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.86%) Windows
2 9 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.52%) Linux
4 3 (3.57%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 16 (19.05%) Coaching
4 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 15 (17.86%) DevOps
5 14 (16.67%) Change Management
5 14 (16.67%) Validation
6 13 (15.48%) Network Virtualisation
6 13 (15.48%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
7 12 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
7 12 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 11 (13.10%) Analytical Thinking
8 11 (13.10%) Change Control
8 11 (13.10%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (13.10%) Mentoring
8 11 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.10%) Python
2 13 (15.48%) PowerShell
3 7 (8.33%) Bash
4 4 (4.76%) SQL
5 3 (3.57%) Bicep
5 3 (3.57%) Go
5 3 (3.57%) Java
6 2 (2.38%) Groovy
7 1 (1.19%) C#
7 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (39.29%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (38.10%) CCNP
3 24 (28.57%) Degree
4 23 (27.38%) CCIE
5 12 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (11.90%) Security Cleared
7 7 (8.33%) CCSA
7 7 (8.33%) CCSE
8 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
8 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
9 3 (3.57%) ISTQB
10 2 (2.38%) CCNA
10 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.19%) Check Point Certification
11 1 (1.19%) CISSP
11 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.29%) PMO
2 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.76%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (11.90%) ProxySG
2 8 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.33%) Docker
4 4 (4.76%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.76%) vSphere
5 3 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.19%) Firmware
7 1 (1.19%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 25 (29.76%) Terraform
2 21 (25.00%) Ansible
3 11 (13.10%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.38%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (2.38%) Podman
5 2 (2.38%) Puppet
6 1 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.19%) Argo
6 1 (1.19%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.19%) Nagios
6 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (64.29%) Cisco
2 32 (38.10%) CheckPoint
2 32 (38.10%) F5
3 23 (27.38%) SolarWinds
4 21 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 16 (19.05%) Infoblox
6 13 (15.48%) Microsoft
6 13 (15.48%) VMware
7 12 (14.29%) Arista
7 12 (14.29%) Blue Coat
7 12 (14.29%) Motorola
8 10 (11.90%) Aruba
9 8 (9.52%) Meraki
9 8 (9.52%) NetScout
9 8 (9.52%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.76%) Dell
10 4 (4.76%) Splunk
11 3 (3.57%) EMC
11 3 (3.57%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.19%) Citrix