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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 552 611
Rank change year-on-year +21 +59 -56
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 161 68 233
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.19% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 118 47 194
10th Percentile £46,387 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £95,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% +8.70%

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 61,164 35,487 72,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.89% 93.36% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40,556 18,984 54,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,779 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,761
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +1 55 £80,000 +33.33% 24
North of England -5 37 £52,500 -30.00% 13
South East 0 24 £60,000 -7.69% 14
Midlands -34 16 £60,000 +20.38% 3
North West +7 15 £52,500 +10.53% 8
North East - 13 £48,445 - 5
East of England -15 11 £60,000 -7.69% 3
East Midlands -24 9 £60,000 - 2
Yorkshire -46 9 £48,445 -35.41%
West Midlands -46 7 £65,000 +41.30% 1
South West -60 5 £36,423 -21.25% 5
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 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.11%) IIS
2 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.86%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.24%) Confluence
4 2 (1.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.62%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.62%) WildFly
Applications
1 16 (9.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 97 (60.25%) Azure
2 74 (45.96%) AWS
3 31 (19.25%) Azure AKS
3 31 (19.25%) IaaS
4 28 (17.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 27 (16.77%) Azure Key Vault
5 27 (16.77%) Azure Storage
6 18 (11.18%) GCP
7 15 (9.32%) OCI
8 9 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.35%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.35%) SaaS
11 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.11%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.11%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (56.52%) Firewall
2 56 (34.78%) VPN
3 55 (34.16%) DNS
4 45 (27.95%) BGP
5 43 (26.71%) WAN
6 36 (22.36%) OSPF
7 35 (21.74%) LAN
8 34 (21.12%) Network Security
9 32 (19.88%) VLAN
10 24 (14.91%) VXLAN
11 22 (13.66%) Cisco ASA
11 22 (13.66%) Cisco Nexus
12 21 (13.04%) NGFW
13 20 (12.42%) Wireless
14 18 (11.18%) Cisco Firepower
15 16 (9.94%) Cisco Wireless
15 16 (9.94%) EIGRP
15 16 (9.94%) SD-WAN
15 16 (9.94%) SNMP
15 16 (9.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.73%) MySQL
3 4 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.62%) Redis
6 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.97%) GitLab
2 5 (3.11%) Git
3 3 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.24%) JIRA
4 2 (1.24%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.24%) Selenium
5 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (33.54%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (21.74%) Law
3 34 (21.12%) Social Skills
4 24 (14.91%) Finance
5 20 (12.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.97%) Retail
6 8 (4.97%) Retail Banking
7 7 (4.35%) Banking
7 7 (4.35%) Legal
8 5 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.86%) Back Office
9 3 (1.86%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.62%) Advertising
11 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.62%) Aviation
11 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (34.16%) Network Engineer
2 42 (26.09%) Senior
3 36 (22.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (18.01%) Azure Engineer
5 27 (16.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 25 (15.53%) Senior Network Engineer
7 22 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (9.94%) Network Manager
9 15 (9.32%) Network Operations Manager
9 15 (9.32%) Operations Manager
10 10 (6.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.59%) Architect
11 9 (5.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.11%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 5 (3.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 5 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
14 5 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.59%) RESTful
2 8 (4.97%) 802.1X
3 6 (3.73%) OAuth
3 6 (3.73%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.11%) Kafka
4 5 (3.11%) Middleware
4 5 (3.11%) REST
5 4 (2.48%) JSON
5 4 (2.48%) JWT
5 4 (2.48%) Node.js
5 4 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.48%) SOAP
5 4 (2.48%) XML
5 4 (2.48%) XML Messaging
6 3 (1.86%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.86%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.86%) LAMP
7 2 (1.24%) CSS
7 2 (1.24%) HTML
7 2 (1.24%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 69 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.32%) PKI
3 12 (7.45%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.73%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.48%) CMDB
6 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.48%) Replication
7 3 (1.86%) Blog
8 2 (1.24%) Clustering
8 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.24%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.62%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.66%) Linux
2 16 (9.94%) Windows
3 7 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.86%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.24%) CentOS
5 2 (1.24%) Rocky
6 1 (0.62%) Solaris
6 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (29.81%) Root Cause Analysis
3 41 (25.47%) Agile
3 41 (25.47%) Containerisation
3 41 (25.47%) High Availability
4 35 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 35 (21.74%) DevOps
5 33 (20.50%) Mentoring
6 32 (19.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (19.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (14.29%) Coaching
8 22 (13.66%) Collaborative Working
8 22 (13.66%) Computer Science
9 21 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (12.42%) Project Delivery
11 19 (11.80%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (10.56%) ITIL
12 17 (10.56%) Network Monitoring
12 17 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (9.94%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (32.30%) Python
2 35 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 13 (8.07%) SQL
4 11 (6.83%) Bash
5 8 (4.97%) Java
6 6 (3.73%) Go
7 3 (1.86%) Bicep
7 3 (1.86%) PHP
8 2 (1.24%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (26.71%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (23.60%) CCNP
3 32 (19.88%) Azure Certification
4 23 (14.29%) Degree
5 21 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (12.42%) Security Cleared
7 18 (11.18%) CCIE
8 13 (8.07%) SC Cleared
9 11 (6.83%) CCNA
10 8 (4.97%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.86%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.62%) CCSE
13 1 (0.62%) CCSM
13 1 (0.62%) CCSP
13 1 (0.62%) CISM
13 1 (0.62%) CISSP
13 1 (0.62%) IISP
13 1 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.94%) PMO
2 6 (3.73%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.73%) QA
3 5 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.86%) SLA
4 3 (1.86%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.24%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.62%) COBIT
6 1 (0.62%) GDPR
6 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (9.94%) ProxySG
2 14 (8.70%) Docker
3 11 (6.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.59%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.11%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.48%) Firmware
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.62%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 48 (29.81%) Terraform
3 33 (20.50%) Ansible
4 9 (5.59%) Check_MK
5 8 (4.97%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.11%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.48%) Grafana
7 4 (2.48%) Nagios
8 3 (1.86%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (1.86%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.86%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.24%) Istio
9 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.62%) Argo
10 1 (0.62%) Cilium
10 1 (0.62%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (31.06%) Cisco
2 30 (18.63%) F5
3 28 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 27 (16.77%) SolarWinds
5 24 (14.91%) Palo Alto
6 21 (13.04%) CheckPoint
7 20 (12.42%) Arista
7 20 (12.42%) Infoblox
8 19 (11.80%) Aruba
9 18 (11.18%) VMware
10 17 (10.56%) Blue Coat
11 16 (9.94%) Motorola
11 16 (9.94%) ServiceNow
12 15 (9.32%) NetScout
13 11 (6.83%) Fortinet
14 8 (4.97%) Dell
15 6 (3.73%) Red Hat
16 5 (3.11%) Zscaler
17 4 (2.48%) HP
17 4 (2.48%) Splunk