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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 562 462
Rank change year-on-year +24 -100 +190
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 96 180 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.26% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.32% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 45 108 206
10th Percentile £50,750 £39,925 £41,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% +7.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £74,938
90th Percentile £115,500 £87,500 £95,218
UK median annual salary £72,250 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +20.42% +7.14% -6.67%

All Process and 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 38,232 56,364 51,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.74% 81.73% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 22,002 31,924 38,556
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025. 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 +95 60 £65,000 -20.00% 19
South East +24 14 £80,000 +33.33% 8
North of England +21 8 £80,000 +33.33% 14
Yorkshire +29 7 £80,000 +10.34% 6
West Midlands +30 6 £46,000 -6.13% 4
Midlands +8 6 £46,000 -6.12% 6
South West +60 3 £46,250 +2.78% 6
East of England -6 2 £61,250 +20.10% 4
North West -9 1 - - 6
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.25%) Apache
1 6 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.17%) JBoss
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.17%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.13%) IIS
4 2 (2.08%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (18.75%) MS Visio
2 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.04%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (47.92%) Azure
2 40 (41.67%) AWS
3 10 (10.42%) GCP
4 9 (9.38%) SaaS
5 8 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (6.25%) OCI
8 5 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.21%) Azure App Service
9 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Storage
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Table
9 4 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.13%) Serverless
11 2 (2.08%) IaaS
11 2 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (57.29%) Firewall
2 44 (45.83%) LAN
3 39 (40.63%) VPN
4 32 (33.33%) WAN
5 28 (29.17%) Network Security
6 27 (28.13%) BGP
6 27 (28.13%) OSPF
7 25 (26.04%) Wireless
8 22 (22.92%) SD-WAN
9 17 (17.71%) DNS
10 14 (14.58%) VLAN
11 13 (13.54%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (12.50%) TCP/IP
12 12 (12.50%) Wireshark
13 11 (11.46%) EIGRP
14 10 (10.42%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (9.38%) Cisco IOS
15 9 (9.38%) SSL
16 7 (7.29%) Cisco ISE
16 7 (7.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.17%) KDB
2 4 (4.17%) Kdb+
3 3 (3.13%) MySQL
4 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.04%) Endeca
5 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Git
2 7 (7.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.25%) Maven
4 4 (4.17%) Ant
4 4 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 4 (4.17%) JIRA
4 4 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.08%) GitLab
5 2 (2.08%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.04%) Gradle
6 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 32 (33.33%) Finance
2 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (13.54%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.42%) Banking
5 10 (10.42%) Law
6 9 (9.38%) Marketing
6 9 (9.38%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.13%) Retail
8 2 (2.08%) Legal
8 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.04%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 46 (47.92%) Network Engineer
2 28 (29.17%) Senior
3 16 (16.67%) Lead
4 15 (15.63%) Senior Network Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Web Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Network Deployment Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Windows Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) .NET
1 5 (5.21%) 802.1X
1 5 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.17%) Kafka
2 4 (4.17%) Middleware
2 4 (4.17%) REST
3 2 (2.08%) JSON
3 2 (2.08%) LAMP
3 2 (2.08%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (2.08%) Node.js
4 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.04%) JWT
4 1 (1.04%) LDAP
4 1 (1.04%) OAuth
4 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.04%) RESTful
4 1 (1.04%) SOAP
4 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.08%) Data Centre
2 11 (11.46%) Management Information System
3 9 (9.38%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.17%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.17%) Web3
5 3 (3.13%) PKI
5 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.08%) Clustering
6 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.04%) SCADA
7 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.50%) Windows
2 8 (8.33%) Linux
3 7 (7.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.08%) Unix
5 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (21.88%) Change Management
3 15 (15.63%) CI/CD
3 15 (15.63%) Customer Service
4 14 (14.58%) Change Control
4 14 (14.58%) DevOps
4 14 (14.58%) Inventory Management
5 13 (13.54%) Agile
5 13 (13.54%) Migration
5 13 (13.54%) Network Monitoring
5 13 (13.54%) Process Improvement
5 13 (13.54%) Validation
6 12 (12.50%) High Availability
6 12 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 11 (11.46%) Capacity Planning
7 11 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (11.46%) Network Virtualisation
7 11 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (10.42%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (41.67%) Python
2 13 (13.54%) PowerShell
3 11 (11.46%) SQL
4 10 (10.42%) Bash
5 7 (7.29%) Java
6 4 (4.17%) C
6 4 (4.17%) C++
6 4 (4.17%) Groovy
7 3 (3.13%) C#
7 3 (3.13%) VB
8 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.04%) PHP
9 1 (1.04%) Scala
9 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (32.29%) CCNP
3 23 (23.96%) Degree
4 19 (19.79%) Security Cleared
5 15 (15.63%) CCIE
6 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
7 7 (7.29%) CCSA
7 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared
7 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (6.25%) CCSE
8 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.21%) CCNA
10 4 (4.17%) Check Point Certification
11 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
11 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
12 2 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (1.04%) CISSP
13 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
13 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (1.04%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) SLA
2 4 (4.17%) PMO
3 2 (2.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (11.46%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.33%) ProxySG
2 8 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.13%) Docker
4 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.08%) KVM
5 2 (2.08%) pfSense
5 2 (2.08%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.08%) Xen
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (34.38%) Ansible
2 21 (21.88%) Terraform
3 14 (14.58%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.25%) Puppet
5 5 (5.21%) FortiGate
6 4 (4.17%) Podman
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.13%) SCCM
8 2 (2.08%) CFEngine
8 2 (2.08%) Grafana
8 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.08%) SCOM
8 2 (2.08%) SCOrch
8 2 (2.08%) SCSM
8 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.04%) CA Spectrum
9 1 (1.04%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 45 (46.88%) Cisco
2 31 (32.29%) F5
3 28 (29.17%) CheckPoint
4 18 (18.75%) SolarWinds
5 16 (16.67%) Palo Alto
6 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
7 10 (10.42%) VMware
8 9 (9.38%) Blue Coat
9 8 (8.33%) Meraki
10 6 (6.25%) Arista
10 6 (6.25%) Citrix
11 5 (5.21%) Aruba
11 5 (5.21%) Fortinet
12 4 (4.17%) Broadcom
12 4 (4.17%) Infoblox
12 4 (4.17%) Motorola
12 4 (4.17%) Netskope
12 4 (4.17%) Symantec
12 4 (4.17%) Zscaler
13 3 (3.13%) Oracle