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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 543 595
Rank change year-on-year -46 +52 -138
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 191 92 155
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 113 38 86
10th Percentile £53,000 £51,100 £39,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +30.43% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £89,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £108,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,788 £75,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +29.31% +0.87%

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 77,267 38,105 52,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.91% 88.91% 82.61%
Number of salaries quoted 54,131 21,889 28,165
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -66 68 £80,000 +23.08% 15
South East -26 41 £60,000 -25.00% 14
North of England -51 25 £65,576 -22.85% 5
South West -52 23 £66,250 +26.19% 5
Midlands -26 22 £60,000 - 3
North West -12 17 £67,788 - 5
West Midlands -34 16 £62,500 - 2
East of England -37 10 £60,000 +4.35% 2
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 1
Yorkshire -37 4 £65,576 -22.85%
North East - 4 £65,576 -
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 16 (8.38%) nginx
2 15 (7.85%) SharePoint
3 14 (7.33%) Apache
4 11 (5.76%) IIS
5 6 (3.14%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.57%) Confluence
6 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.52%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.03%) Azure
2 59 (30.89%) AWS
3 29 (15.18%) GCP
4 26 (13.61%) Azure AKS
5 25 (13.09%) IaaS
6 19 (9.95%) Azure Key Vault
7 18 (9.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (8.90%) Azure Storage
9 14 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (6.81%) GitHub
11 12 (6.28%) Serverless
12 11 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (5.76%) Entra ID
12 11 (5.76%) PaaS
13 10 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (5.24%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 97 (50.79%) Firewall
2 88 (46.07%) DNS
3 49 (25.65%) VPN
4 37 (19.37%) BGP
4 37 (19.37%) Network Security
5 32 (16.75%) WAN
6 27 (14.14%) TCP/IP
7 24 (12.57%) LAN
8 19 (9.95%) OSPF
9 18 (9.42%) SD-WAN
10 17 (8.90%) VLAN
11 13 (6.81%) Cisco Nexus
11 13 (6.81%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (6.28%) DHCP
12 12 (6.28%) VXLAN
13 11 (5.76%) NetScaler
13 11 (5.76%) Wireless
14 10 (5.24%) NGFW
15 9 (4.71%) HTTP
15 9 (4.71%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.19%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.66%) Big Data
3 7 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.14%) Apache Hive
4 6 (3.14%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.14%) HBase
5 5 (2.62%) MySQL
6 4 (2.09%) Redis
7 3 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.05%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.24%) Git
2 9 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.14%) GitLab
4 3 (1.57%) JIRA
5 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.05%) git-flow
5 2 (1.05%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.05%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 65 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 56 (29.32%) Finance
3 36 (18.85%) Law
4 29 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.28%) Legal
6 11 (5.76%) Marketing
7 9 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.14%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.14%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.14%) Military
9 6 (3.14%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.62%) Retail
11 4 (2.09%) Aviation
11 4 (2.09%) French Language
12 3 (1.57%) Banking
13 2 (1.05%) Electronics
13 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 49 (25.65%) Senior
2 44 (23.04%) Network Engineer
3 29 (15.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (13.09%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (10.47%) Architect
6 20 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (8.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 15 (7.85%) Senior Network Engineer
9 14 (7.33%) Lead
10 9 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Technical Support
12 7 (3.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 6 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (3.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) Senior Network Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (27.23%) Terraform
2 9 (4.71%) Kafka
2 9 (4.71%) REST
3 8 (4.19%) OAuth
3 8 (4.19%) OAuth2
4 7 (3.66%) Node.js
4 7 (3.66%) RESTful
5 6 (3.14%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (3.14%) Middleware
6 5 (2.62%) JWT
6 5 (2.62%) OpenID
6 5 (2.62%) Web Services
7 4 (2.09%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.09%) Pulumi
7 4 (2.09%) React
7 4 (2.09%) YAML
8 3 (1.57%) JSON
8 3 (1.57%) Micronaut
8 3 (1.57%) ModSecurity
8 3 (1.57%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.90%) Data Centre
2 19 (9.95%) Cloud Native
3 18 (9.42%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.24%) Driving Licence
4 10 (5.24%) Private Cloud
5 8 (4.19%) CMDB
5 8 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.14%) Replication
8 5 (2.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.62%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.09%) Blog
9 4 (2.09%) Clustering
9 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.57%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 51 (26.70%) Linux
2 38 (19.90%) Windows
3 24 (12.57%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.19%) Ubuntu
4 8 (4.19%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.05%) Unix
5 2 (1.05%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.52%) CentOS
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Rocky
6 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.51%) Infrastructure as Code
2 59 (30.89%) CI/CD
3 51 (26.70%) Disaster Recovery
3 51 (26.70%) High Availability
4 50 (26.18%) DevOps
5 46 (24.08%) Containerisation
6 43 (22.51%) Agile
7 40 (20.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 37 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (18.32%) Mentoring
10 30 (15.71%) Root Cause Analysis
11 28 (14.66%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (13.61%) Observability
13 23 (12.04%) Analytics
13 23 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (12.04%) Software Engineering
13 23 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (10.99%) Change Management
14 21 (10.99%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 51 (26.70%) Python
2 50 (26.18%) PowerShell
3 22 (11.52%) Bash
3 22 (11.52%) SQL
4 12 (6.28%) Java
4 12 (6.28%) PHP
5 7 (3.66%) C
6 6 (3.14%) C#
6 6 (3.14%) Ruby
7 5 (2.62%) Bicep
7 5 (2.62%) Go
8 4 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 42 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.71%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.14%) Azure Certification
4 24 (12.57%) CCNP
5 16 (8.38%) CCNA
5 16 (8.38%) Degree
6 15 (7.85%) DV Cleared
7 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.66%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.57%) CCIE
10 3 (1.57%) CCSP
10 3 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.81%) SLA
2 11 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.19%) QA
4 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.57%) NCSC
6 2 (1.05%) GDPR
6 2 (1.05%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) SOC 1
System Software
1 33 (17.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (13.61%) Docker
3 10 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.24%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.19%) Firmware
5 5 (2.62%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.62%) Squid
5 5 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.09%) vSphere
7 3 (1.57%) KVM
7 3 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.05%) ProxySG
8 2 (1.05%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.05%) UAG
9 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.52%) XenApp
9 1 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 69 (36.13%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.04%) Ansible
3 15 (7.85%) Grafana
4 14 (7.33%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.71%) Argo
5 9 (4.71%) FortiGate
6 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (3.14%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (2.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.09%) Istio
9 3 (1.57%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.57%) Puppet
9 3 (1.57%) SCCM
10 2 (1.05%) AirWatch
10 2 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.05%) Nagios
10 2 (1.05%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.52%) linkerd
11 1 (0.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 49 (25.65%) Microsoft
2 44 (23.04%) Cisco
3 42 (21.99%) F5
4 41 (21.47%) VMware
5 27 (14.14%) Palo Alto
6 20 (10.47%) Fortinet
7 15 (7.85%) Infoblox
8 14 (7.33%) Aruba
9 12 (6.28%) Citrix
9 12 (6.28%) Meraki
10 11 (5.76%) Zscaler
11 10 (5.24%) Google
11 10 (5.24%) HP
12 9 (4.71%) Splunk
13 8 (4.19%) CheckPoint
13 8 (4.19%) Dell
13 8 (4.19%) Oracle
13 8 (4.19%) SonicWALL
14 7 (3.66%) IBM
14 7 (3.66%) SAP