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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 542 513
Rank change year-on-year 0 -29 +100
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 96 111 248
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.26% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 51 57 201
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% +8.33% -5.88%
75th Percentile £73,450 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £112,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £49,652 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.56% +4.17% -

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 48,319 39,543 59,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.09% 92.88% 88.24%
Number of salaries quoted 29,618 19,881 46,684
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +41 48 £70,000 -6.67% 9
North of England -15 22 £48,445 -30.79% 15
North East -3 9 £48,445 - 1
North West 0 7 £48,445 -55.96% 9
Yorkshire -30 6 £48,445 -30.79% 5
South East -30 5 £45,000 -25.00% 16
South West -22 4 £36,423 -43.96% 1
East of England +4 3 £57,500 -17.86% 4
West Midlands -4 1 - - 7
Midlands -17 1 - - 10
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 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.13%) IIS
4 1 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (19.79%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 53 (55.21%) Azure
2 50 (52.08%) AWS
3 15 (15.63%) OCI
4 9 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (8.33%) SaaS
5 8 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (7.29%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.29%) AWS Direct Connect
6 7 (7.29%) GCP
7 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.25%) Route 53
8 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.13%) IaaS
9 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.08%) Datadog
10 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 70 (72.92%) Firewall
2 39 (40.63%) VPN
3 36 (37.50%) WAN
4 34 (35.42%) LAN
5 32 (33.33%) BGP
6 25 (26.04%) VLAN
7 24 (25.00%) OSPF
8 23 (23.96%) DNS
8 23 (23.96%) Wireless
9 21 (21.88%) Network Security
9 21 (21.88%) SD-WAN
9 21 (21.88%) Wireshark
10 17 (17.71%) NGFW
10 17 (17.71%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
11 15 (15.63%) Cisco Nexus
11 15 (15.63%) TCP/IP
11 15 (15.63%) VXLAN
12 14 (14.58%) EIGRP
12 14 (14.58%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.04%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.04%) MySQL
4 1 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.13%) GitLab
3 2 (2.08%) Git
3 2 (2.08%) JIRA
3 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.04%) Ant
4 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.04%) Maven
4 1 (1.04%) MSBuild
General
1 37 (38.54%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 23 (23.96%) Finance
4 19 (19.79%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.38%) Banking
5 9 (9.38%) Telecoms
6 8 (8.33%) Law
7 7 (7.29%) Retail
8 6 (6.25%) Back Office
8 6 (6.25%) Financial Institution
8 6 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (6.25%) Retail Banking
9 5 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.13%) Marketing
11 2 (2.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 44 (45.83%) Network Engineer
2 25 (26.04%) Senior
3 19 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (19.79%) Senior Network Engineer
4 15 (15.63%) Network Manager
4 15 (15.63%) Network Operations Manager
4 15 (15.63%) Operations Manager
5 10 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.29%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Analyst
8 5 (5.21%) Architect
8 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Deployment Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Network Deployment Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) 802.1X
1 6 (6.25%) RESTful
2 2 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.04%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.04%) Kafka
3 1 (1.04%) Middleware
3 1 (1.04%) Next.js
3 1 (1.04%) Node.js
3 1 (1.04%) OAuth
3 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.04%) OpenID
3 1 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (59.38%) Data Centre
2 15 (15.63%) PKI
3 8 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.13%) Blog
5 3 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.08%) Replication
7 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.04%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.58%) Windows
2 8 (8.33%) Linux
2 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (22.92%) Coaching
2 22 (22.92%) Network Monitoring
3 21 (21.88%) CI/CD
3 21 (21.88%) Mentoring
4 20 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (17.71%) Root Cause Analysis
6 16 (16.67%) DevOps
6 16 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (16.67%) ITSM
6 16 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 16 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (15.63%) Collaborative Working
7 15 (15.63%) Creative Thinking
8 14 (14.58%) Computer Science
8 14 (14.58%) Kalman Filter
9 12 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
9 12 (12.50%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (45.83%) Python
2 12 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.29%) Bash
4 6 (6.25%) Go
4 6 (6.25%) Java
5 3 (3.13%) Bicep
5 3 (3.13%) SQL
6 1 (1.04%) C#
6 1 (1.04%) Groovy
6 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (32.29%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (31.25%) CCNP
3 21 (21.88%) Degree
4 20 (20.83%) CCIE
5 14 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
7 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
8 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
9 4 (4.17%) CCSA
9 4 (4.17%) CCSE
10 3 (3.13%) ISTQB
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.08%) CCNA
11 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.04%) Check Point Certification
12 1 (1.04%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.58%) PMO
2 7 (7.29%) PCI DSS
2 7 (7.29%) SOC 2
3 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.04%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 12 (12.50%) ProxySG
2 11 (11.46%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.33%) Docker
3 8 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.17%) vSphere
6 3 (3.13%) Firmware
7 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (39.58%) Terraform
2 23 (23.96%) Ansible
3 14 (14.58%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.25%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.04%) Argo
7 1 (1.04%) Grafana
7 1 (1.04%) Nagios
7 1 (1.04%) Podman
7 1 (1.04%) Puppet
7 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (53.13%) Cisco
2 28 (29.17%) F5
3 27 (28.13%) CheckPoint
4 26 (27.08%) SolarWinds
5 22 (22.92%) Palo Alto
6 18 (18.75%) Infoblox
7 16 (16.67%) Arista
8 15 (15.63%) Aruba
8 15 (15.63%) Microsoft
8 15 (15.63%) NetScout
9 14 (14.58%) Blue Coat
9 14 (14.58%) Motorola
10 13 (13.54%) VMware
11 12 (12.50%) ServiceNow
12 6 (6.25%) Fortinet
12 6 (6.25%) Meraki
13 5 (5.21%) Dell
14 4 (4.17%) Splunk
15 3 (3.13%) EMC
16 2 (2.08%) Databricks