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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 546 570
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -9
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 130 78 246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.22% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 89 54 201
10th Percentile £43,833 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £50,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £115,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 60,045 35,779 71,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.70% 93.09% 85.50%
Number of salaries quoted 38,092 20,632 53,699
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £39,750
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 4 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 4 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 +16 51 £77,500 +19.23% 17
North of England -41 25 £48,445 -30.79% 12
South East -26 19 £60,000 -2.04% 14
North East - 11 £48,445 - 5
Midlands -38 9 £60,000 +14.35% 4
East of England -12 8 £60,000 -11.11% 2
North West -22 8 £48,445 -39.44% 7
East Midlands -39 6 £60,000 - 3
Yorkshire -55 6 £48,445 -30.79%
South West -47 5 £36,423 -21.25% 4
West Midlands -21 3 £35,866 -30.02% 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 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.85%) IIS
3 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.31%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.54%) Confluence
4 2 (1.54%) nginx
5 1 (0.77%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.77%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.77%) WildFly
Applications
1 17 (13.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 77 (59.23%) Azure
2 66 (50.77%) AWS
3 23 (17.69%) IaaS
4 22 (16.92%) Azure AKS
5 21 (16.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 19 (14.62%) Azure Key Vault
6 19 (14.62%) Azure Storage
7 15 (11.54%) OCI
8 12 (9.23%) GCP
9 9 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.15%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.15%) SaaS
10 8 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.85%) Datadog
12 5 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 78 (60.00%) Firewall
2 50 (38.46%) VPN
3 46 (35.38%) DNS
4 41 (31.54%) WAN
5 36 (27.69%) BGP
6 34 (26.15%) LAN
7 31 (23.85%) VLAN
8 28 (21.54%) OSPF
9 24 (18.46%) Network Security
10 20 (15.38%) Wireless
11 18 (13.85%) Cisco ASA
11 18 (13.85%) Cisco Nexus
12 17 (13.08%) NGFW
13 16 (12.31%) Cisco Wireless
13 16 (12.31%) EIGRP
13 16 (12.31%) SD-WAN
13 16 (12.31%) SNMP
13 16 (12.31%) VXLAN
13 16 (12.31%) WAAS
13 16 (12.31%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) MySQL
3 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.38%) GitLab
2 5 (3.85%) Git
3 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.54%) JIRA
4 2 (1.54%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.54%) Selenium
5 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (36.92%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 24 (18.46%) Law
4 22 (16.92%) Finance
5 20 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.92%) Banking
6 9 (6.92%) Retail
7 8 (6.15%) Retail Banking
8 6 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.08%) Back Office
9 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.54%) Legal
10 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.77%) Advertising
11 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (33.08%) Network Engineer
2 32 (24.62%) Senior
3 25 (19.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 20 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 18 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (12.31%) Network Manager
8 15 (11.54%) Network Operations Manager
8 15 (11.54%) Operations Manager
9 11 (8.46%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Architect
12 6 (4.62%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 5 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
14 4 (3.08%) Analyst
14 4 (3.08%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.15%) 802.1X
1 8 (6.15%) RESTful
2 5 (3.85%) Kafka
2 5 (3.85%) Middleware
2 5 (3.85%) OAuth
2 5 (3.85%) OAuth2
3 4 (3.08%) JSON
3 4 (3.08%) JWT
3 4 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.08%) REST
3 4 (3.08%) SOAP
3 4 (3.08%) XML
3 4 (3.08%) XML Messaging
4 3 (2.31%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (2.31%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.31%) Node.js
5 2 (1.54%) jQuery
5 2 (1.54%) LAMP
5 2 (1.54%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (1.54%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (45.38%) Data Centre
2 15 (11.54%) PKI
3 12 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.31%) Blog
5 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.54%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.77%) Clustering
7 1 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.77%) Replication
7 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.08%) Windows
2 16 (12.31%) Linux
3 11 (8.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.31%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.31%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.54%) CentOS
5 2 (1.54%) Rocky
6 1 (0.77%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.92%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
3 32 (24.62%) Agile
4 31 (23.85%) High Availability
5 28 (21.54%) Containerisation
5 28 (21.54%) Mentoring
6 27 (20.77%) DevOps
7 26 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 23 (17.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (16.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (16.15%) Computer Science
11 19 (14.62%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (13.85%) Coaching
12 18 (13.85%) Project Delivery
13 17 (13.08%) Network Monitoring
14 16 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (12.31%) ITIL
14 16 (12.31%) Kalman Filter
14 16 (12.31%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.92%) Python
2 27 (20.77%) PowerShell
3 9 (6.92%) Bash
4 8 (6.15%) Java
4 8 (6.15%) SQL
5 6 (4.62%) Go
6 3 (2.31%) Bicep
7 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (25.38%) CCNP
3 23 (17.69%) Azure Certification
3 23 (17.69%) Degree
4 20 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (13.85%) CCIE
6 14 (10.77%) Security Cleared
7 7 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.31%) CCNA
8 3 (2.31%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.54%) CCSE
9 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.77%) CCSM
10 1 (0.77%) CISM
10 1 (0.77%) IISP
10 1 (0.77%) ISACA
10 1 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.31%) PMO
2 7 (5.38%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.62%) QA
4 5 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.85%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.77%) COBIT
6 1 (0.77%) GDPR
6 1 (0.77%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (12.31%) ProxySG
2 14 (10.77%) Docker
3 13 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.85%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.08%) Firmware
6 4 (3.08%) vSphere
7 2 (1.54%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (33.08%) Terraform
2 40 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 30 (23.08%) Ansible
4 9 (6.92%) Check_MK
5 5 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.08%) Grafana
6 4 (3.08%) Nagios
6 4 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.31%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.54%) Istio
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.54%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.77%) Argo
9 1 (0.77%) Cilium
9 1 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (35.38%) Cisco
2 27 (20.77%) SolarWinds
3 24 (18.46%) F5
4 23 (17.69%) Microsoft
5 22 (16.92%) CheckPoint
6 21 (16.15%) Infoblox
7 18 (13.85%) Palo Alto
7 18 (13.85%) VMware
8 17 (13.08%) Blue Coat
9 16 (12.31%) Motorola
9 16 (12.31%) ServiceNow
10 15 (11.54%) Arista
10 15 (11.54%) Aruba
10 15 (11.54%) NetScout
11 8 (6.15%) Dell
11 8 (6.15%) Fortinet
12 5 (3.85%) Red Hat
13 4 (3.08%) Splunk
13 4 (3.08%) Zscaler
14 3 (2.31%) Oracle