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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 550 450
Rank change year-on-year +13 -100 +155
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 77 128 228
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.29% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 32 63 182
10th Percentile £42,750 £44,500 £41,275
25th Percentile £47,617 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £88,438 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £138,875 £108,500 £86,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 42,844 44,109 42,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.40% 90.47% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 25,653 21,778 33,081
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 8 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 8 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 +82 55 £65,000 -10.34% 18
South East -9 6 £57,500 -4.17% 18
North of England -3 4 £70,000 - 9
East of England +21 3 £57,500 -17.86% 8
West Midlands +8 2 - - 4
Midlands +1 2 - - 5
North East +1 2 - - 2
North West +12 1 - - 4
South West -4 1 - - 4
Yorkshire -13 1 £70,000 - 3
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 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.19%) IIS
3 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.60%) Apache
4 2 (2.60%) JBoss
4 2 (2.60%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.30%) CMS
5 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (27.27%) MS Visio
2 11 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (53.25%) Azure
2 30 (38.96%) AWS
3 7 (9.09%) GCP
4 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.19%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (5.19%) SaaS
5 4 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.90%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.90%) Route 53
7 2 (2.60%) IaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Datadog
8 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.30%) PaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 49 (63.64%) Firewall
2 41 (53.25%) LAN
3 32 (41.56%) WAN
4 31 (40.26%) VPN
5 27 (35.06%) Wireless
6 26 (33.77%) BGP
7 22 (28.57%) DNS
7 22 (28.57%) OSPF
8 19 (24.68%) Network Security
9 18 (23.38%) SD-WAN
10 14 (18.18%) EIGRP
11 12 (15.58%) TCP/IP
12 11 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (14.29%) VLAN
12 11 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (14.29%) Wireshark
13 10 (12.99%) WAAS
14 8 (10.39%) Cisco Wireless
14 8 (10.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.30%) MySQL
2 1 (1.30%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) GitLab
2 3 (3.90%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.60%) Ant
3 2 (2.60%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.60%) Maven
4 1 (1.30%) MSBuild
General
1 29 (37.66%) Finance
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.79%) Marketing
7 5 (6.49%) Banking
7 5 (6.49%) Law
8 4 (5.19%) Retail
9 3 (3.90%) Back Office
9 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.60%) Legal
11 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (58.44%) Network Engineer
2 25 (32.47%) Senior
3 20 (25.97%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (12.99%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Analyst
7 6 (7.79%) Deployment Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Network Deployment Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Network Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Network Security Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Network Support
9 4 (5.19%) Network Support Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) Security Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Support Analyst
10 3 (3.90%) Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.90%) RESTful
3 2 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.60%) Kafka
3 2 (2.60%) Middleware
4 1 (1.30%) .NET
4 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.30%) Next.js
4 1 (1.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (49.35%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.19%) Low-Code
3 4 (5.19%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.19%) Web3
4 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.90%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) PKI
5 2 (2.60%) Replication
6 1 (1.30%) Clustering
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.18%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.90%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (20.78%) DevOps
3 15 (19.48%) Change Management
3 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
3 15 (19.48%) Network Virtualisation
4 14 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
4 14 (18.18%) Validation
5 13 (16.88%) Capacity Planning
5 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (15.58%) Change Control
6 12 (15.58%) Customer Service
6 12 (15.58%) Inventory Management
7 11 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 11 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (14.29%) Low Latency
7 11 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (12.99%) Kalman Filter
9 9 (11.69%) Problem Management
9 9 (11.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.47%) Python
2 12 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 7 (9.09%) Bash
4 4 (5.19%) SQL
5 3 (3.90%) Bicep
5 3 (3.90%) Go
5 3 (3.90%) Java
6 2 (2.60%) Groovy
7 1 (1.30%) C#
7 1 (1.30%) PHP
7 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (44.16%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (42.86%) CCNP
3 24 (31.17%) Degree
4 23 (29.87%) CCIE
5 11 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
7 8 (10.39%) CCSA
7 8 (10.39%) CCSE
8 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
9 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.90%) ISTQB
10 2 (2.60%) CCNA
11 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.30%) Check Point Certification
11 1 (1.30%) CISSP
11 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.30%) MCSE
11 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.30%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) PMO
2 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.19%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.60%) SLA
5 1 (1.30%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) ProxySG
1 8 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.09%) Docker
3 5 (6.49%) vSphere
4 4 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.19%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.60%) pfSense
7 1 (1.30%) Firmware
7 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (24.68%) Terraform
2 16 (20.78%) Ansible
3 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.60%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (2.60%) Podman
5 2 (2.60%) Puppet
5 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.60%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.30%) Argo
6 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.30%) Nagios
6 1 (1.30%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 55 (71.43%) Cisco
2 33 (42.86%) F5
3 32 (41.56%) CheckPoint
4 21 (27.27%) SolarWinds
5 20 (25.97%) Palo Alto
6 13 (16.88%) Infoblox
6 13 (16.88%) VMware
7 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
8 10 (12.99%) Blue Coat
8 10 (12.99%) Motorola
9 8 (10.39%) Meraki
10 5 (6.49%) Arista
10 5 (6.49%) Splunk
11 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
12 3 (3.90%) Aruba
12 3 (3.90%) Dell
12 3 (3.90%) EMC
12 3 (3.90%) Fortinet
13 2 (2.60%) Citrix
14 1 (1.30%) Red Hat