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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 558 595
Rank change year-on-year +16 +37 -39
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 149 72 238
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.20% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 109 52 197
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,617 £50,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £86,500 £79,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £114,625 £91,750
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 60,212 36,881 71,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.70% 93.36% 84.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39,696 20,356 53,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £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 £73,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 18 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 18 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 0 53 £80,000 +23.08% 24
North of England -14 32 £48,445 -30.79% 19
South East -3 22 £60,000 -2.04% 18
Midlands -27 14 £60,000 +11.76% 5
North West +18 12 £52,500 +5.00% 12
North East - 12 £48,445 - 6
East of England -10 10 £60,000 -7.69% 3
East Midlands -24 9 £60,000 - 3
Yorkshire -38 8 £48,445 -33.18% 2
West Midlands -25 5 £65,000 +30.41% 2
South West -58 5 £36,423 -21.25% 8
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 5 (3.36%) IIS
1 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.01%) Confluence
2 3 (2.01%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.34%) nginx
4 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.67%) WildFly
Applications
1 16 (10.74%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 91 (61.07%) Azure
2 68 (45.64%) AWS
3 30 (20.13%) Azure AKS
3 30 (20.13%) IaaS
4 27 (18.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 26 (17.45%) Azure Key Vault
5 26 (17.45%) Azure Storage
6 15 (10.07%) GCP
6 15 (10.07%) OCI
7 8 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.70%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.70%) SaaS
8 7 (4.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.36%) Datadog
10 5 (3.36%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.36%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (59.06%) Firewall
2 56 (37.58%) DNS
3 54 (36.24%) VPN
4 45 (30.20%) BGP
5 43 (28.86%) WAN
6 36 (24.16%) OSPF
7 33 (22.15%) LAN
8 32 (21.48%) Network Security
8 32 (21.48%) VLAN
9 24 (16.11%) VXLAN
10 22 (14.77%) NGFW
11 21 (14.09%) Cisco ASA
11 21 (14.09%) Cisco Nexus
12 20 (13.42%) Wireless
13 17 (11.41%) SD-WAN
14 16 (10.74%) Cisco Firepower
14 16 (10.74%) Cisco Wireless
14 16 (10.74%) EIGRP
14 16 (10.74%) SNMP
14 16 (10.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.68%) MySQL
3 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.67%) Redis
4 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.37%) GitLab
2 5 (3.36%) Git
3 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.01%) JIRA
4 2 (1.34%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.34%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (35.57%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (21.48%) Law
3 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
4 23 (15.44%) Finance
5 20 (13.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.37%) Retail
6 8 (5.37%) Retail Banking
7 7 (4.70%) Banking
8 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.68%) Legal
10 3 (2.01%) Back Office
10 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) Aviation
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (35.57%) Network Engineer
2 38 (25.50%) Senior
3 32 (21.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (18.12%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (17.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 24 (16.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 19 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (10.74%) Network Manager
9 15 (10.07%) Network Operations Manager
9 15 (10.07%) Operations Manager
10 11 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (6.04%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (5.37%) Architect
13 7 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (4.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 5 (3.36%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
15 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
15 5 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
16 4 (2.68%) Integration Architect
16 4 (2.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.37%) 802.1X
2 7 (4.70%) RESTful
3 5 (3.36%) Kafka
3 5 (3.36%) Middleware
3 5 (3.36%) OAuth
3 5 (3.36%) OAuth2
4 4 (2.68%) JSON
4 4 (2.68%) JWT
4 4 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (2.68%) REST
4 4 (2.68%) SOAP
4 4 (2.68%) XML
4 4 (2.68%) XML Messaging
5 3 (2.01%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.01%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.01%) Node.js
6 2 (1.34%) CSS
6 2 (1.34%) jQuery
6 2 (1.34%) LAMP
6 2 (1.34%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 66 (44.30%) Data Centre
2 15 (10.07%) PKI
3 12 (8.05%) Cloud Native
4 11 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.36%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.01%) Blog
7 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.01%) Replication
8 2 (1.34%) Clustering
8 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.67%) CMDB
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.09%) Linux
2 16 (10.74%) Windows
3 8 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.01%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.34%) CentOS
5 2 (1.34%) Rocky
6 1 (0.67%) Solaris
6 1 (0.67%) Unix
6 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (32.21%) Problem-Solving
1 48 (32.21%) Root Cause Analysis
2 40 (26.85%) High Availability
3 39 (26.17%) Agile
4 37 (24.83%) Containerisation
5 33 (22.15%) DevOps
5 33 (22.15%) Mentoring
6 32 (21.48%) CI/CD
7 30 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (20.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (15.44%) Coaching
9 22 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (14.09%) Computer Science
11 20 (13.42%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (12.08%) Project Delivery
13 17 (11.41%) Network Monitoring
14 16 (10.74%) Analytical Thinking
14 16 (10.74%) ITSM
14 16 (10.74%) Kalman Filter
14 16 (10.74%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (33.56%) Python
2 35 (23.49%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.38%) Bash
4 10 (6.71%) SQL
5 7 (4.70%) Java
6 5 (3.36%) Go
7 3 (2.01%) Bicep
8 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (27.52%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (24.83%) CCNP
3 31 (20.81%) Azure Certification
4 23 (15.44%) Degree
5 20 (13.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (12.75%) CCIE
7 17 (11.41%) Security Cleared
8 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
9 8 (5.37%) CCNA
10 7 (4.70%) DV Cleared
11 3 (2.01%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.67%) CCSM
13 1 (0.67%) CCSP
13 1 (0.67%) CISM
13 1 (0.67%) CISSP
13 1 (0.67%) IISP
13 1 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.74%) PMO
2 6 (4.03%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.03%) QA
3 4 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.68%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.67%) COBIT
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (10.74%) ProxySG
2 13 (8.72%) Docker
3 10 (6.71%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.36%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.68%) Firmware
6 3 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.34%) vSphere
8 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (34.23%) Kubernetes
2 46 (30.87%) Terraform
3 33 (22.15%) Ansible
4 9 (6.04%) Check_MK
5 5 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.68%) Grafana
6 4 (2.68%) Nagios
7 3 (2.01%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (2.01%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.34%) Istio
8 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.34%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.67%) Argo
9 1 (0.67%) Cilium
9 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (32.89%) Cisco
2 29 (19.46%) F5
3 27 (18.12%) SolarWinds
4 25 (16.78%) Palo Alto
5 24 (16.11%) Microsoft
6 21 (14.09%) CheckPoint
6 21 (14.09%) Infoblox
7 20 (13.42%) Arista
8 18 (12.08%) Aruba
9 17 (11.41%) Blue Coat
10 16 (10.74%) Motorola
10 16 (10.74%) ServiceNow
10 16 (10.74%) VMware
11 15 (10.07%) NetScout
12 10 (6.71%) Fortinet
13 8 (5.37%) Dell
14 6 (4.03%) Red Hat
14 6 (4.03%) Zscaler
15 4 (2.68%) Splunk
16 3 (2.01%) HP