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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 537 583
Rank change year-on-year -19 +46 -1
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 123 80 251
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.23% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 82 56 207
10th Percentile £44,249 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £50,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,350 £86,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £89,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +2.56%

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 59,164 34,994 71,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.21% 92.99% 85.72%
Number of salaries quoted 37,321 20,700 53,754
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,600 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,776 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.90%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +2 51 £75,000 +11.11% 17
North of England -29 25 £48,445 -30.79% 14
South East -37 15 £60,000 -2.04% 14
North East - 11 £48,445 - 5
North West -31 8 £48,445 -39.44% 9
Midlands -50 7 £58,750 +14.63% 4
East of England -30 6 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Yorkshire -57 6 £48,445 -30.79%
East Midlands -54 5 £60,000 - 3
South West -54 5 £36,423 -21.25% 2
West Midlands -36 2 £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 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.07%) IIS
3 3 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.63%) Confluence
4 2 (1.63%) nginx
4 2 (1.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (14.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 68 (55.28%) Azure
2 63 (51.22%) AWS
3 18 (14.63%) IaaS
4 16 (13.01%) Azure AKS
4 16 (13.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 15 (12.20%) OCI
6 14 (11.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 14 (11.38%) Azure Storage
7 12 (9.76%) GCP
8 9 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (6.50%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.50%) SaaS
9 8 (6.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.07%) AWS Direct Connect
11 5 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 77 (62.60%) Firewall
2 49 (39.84%) VPN
3 41 (33.33%) DNS
3 41 (33.33%) WAN
4 36 (29.27%) BGP
4 36 (29.27%) LAN
5 30 (24.39%) VLAN
6 28 (22.76%) OSPF
7 26 (21.14%) Network Security
8 21 (17.07%) Wireless
9 18 (14.63%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (14.63%) Cisco Nexus
10 17 (13.82%) NGFW
10 17 (13.82%) SD-WAN
11 16 (13.01%) Cisco Wireless
11 16 (13.01%) EIGRP
11 16 (13.01%) SNMP
11 16 (13.01%) VXLAN
11 16 (13.01%) WAAS
11 16 (13.01%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.25%) MySQL
2 4 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.69%) GitLab
2 5 (4.07%) Git
3 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.63%) JIRA
4 2 (1.63%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (36.59%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.89%) Finance
4 21 (17.07%) Public Sector
5 19 (15.45%) Law
6 10 (8.13%) Banking
7 9 (7.32%) Retail
8 8 (6.50%) Retail Banking
9 4 (3.25%) Back Office
9 4 (3.25%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.63%) Legal
12 1 (0.81%) Advertising
12 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (37.40%) Network Engineer
2 33 (26.83%) Senior
3 21 (17.07%) Senior Network Engineer
4 19 (15.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (15.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (13.01%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (12.20%) Network Manager
6 15 (12.20%) Network Operations Manager
6 15 (12.20%) Operations Manager
7 14 (11.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 11 (8.94%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (4.07%) Architect
11 5 (4.07%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 4 (3.25%) Analyst
13 3 (2.44%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.50%) 802.1X
2 6 (4.88%) RESTful
3 3 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.44%) AWS CDK
3 3 (2.44%) Kafka
3 3 (2.44%) Node.js
3 3 (2.44%) OAuth
3 3 (2.44%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.63%) CSS
4 2 (1.63%) HTML
4 2 (1.63%) jQuery
4 2 (1.63%) JSON
4 2 (1.63%) JWT
4 2 (1.63%) LAMP
4 2 (1.63%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (1.63%) Middleware
4 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.63%) REST
4 2 (1.63%) SOAP
4 2 (1.63%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 61 (49.59%) Data Centre
2 15 (12.20%) PKI
3 10 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (7.32%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.44%) Blog
6 3 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) Replication
7 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.81%) Clustering
8 1 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.82%) Windows
2 15 (12.20%) Linux
3 11 (8.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.44%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.44%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.63%) CentOS
5 2 (1.63%) Rocky
6 1 (0.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.96%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (28.46%) Root Cause Analysis
3 27 (21.95%) High Availability
4 26 (21.14%) Mentoring
5 25 (20.33%) Agile
6 24 (19.51%) DevOps
7 23 (18.70%) CI/CD
8 22 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (17.07%) Containerisation
9 21 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (15.45%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (14.63%) Computer Science
11 18 (14.63%) Project Delivery
12 17 (13.82%) Coaching
12 17 (13.82%) Network Monitoring
13 16 (13.01%) Analytical Thinking
13 16 (13.01%) ITIL
13 16 (13.01%) Kalman Filter
13 16 (13.01%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.02%) Python
2 23 (18.70%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.32%) Bash
4 6 (4.88%) Go
4 6 (4.88%) Java
4 6 (4.88%) SQL
5 3 (2.44%) Bicep
6 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (30.08%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (27.64%) CCNP
3 22 (17.89%) Degree
4 20 (16.26%) CCIE
5 18 (14.63%) Azure Certification
5 18 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (10.57%) Security Cleared
7 7 (5.69%) DV Cleared
8 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.44%) CCNA
9 3 (2.44%) CCSE
9 3 (2.44%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.63%) CCSA
10 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.81%) CCSM
11 1 (0.81%) CISM
11 1 (0.81%) IISP
11 1 (0.81%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.01%) PMO
2 7 (5.69%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.07%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.25%) QA
5 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.81%) COBIT
6 1 (0.81%) GDPR
6 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (13.01%) ProxySG
2 14 (11.38%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.76%) Docker
3 12 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (3.25%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.44%) Firmware
6 3 (2.44%) vSphere
7 2 (1.63%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (34.96%) Terraform
2 33 (26.83%) Kubernetes
3 29 (23.58%) Ansible
4 9 (7.32%) Check_MK
5 4 (3.25%) Grafana
5 4 (3.25%) Nagios
5 4 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.44%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.63%) Istio
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.63%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.81%) Argo
8 1 (0.81%) Cilium
8 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 49 (39.84%) Cisco
2 27 (21.95%) SolarWinds
3 26 (21.14%) F5
4 23 (18.70%) CheckPoint
5 21 (17.07%) Infoblox
5 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
6 19 (15.45%) Palo Alto
7 18 (14.63%) VMware
8 17 (13.82%) Blue Coat
9 16 (13.01%) Motorola
9 16 (13.01%) ServiceNow
10 15 (12.20%) Arista
10 15 (12.20%) Aruba
10 15 (12.20%) NetScout
11 8 (6.50%) Dell
11 8 (6.50%) Fortinet
12 5 (4.07%) Red Hat
13 4 (3.25%) Splunk
13 4 (3.25%) Zscaler
14 2 (1.63%) Databricks