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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 562 584
Rank change year-on-year +24 +22 -42
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 153 70 235
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 112 51 196
10th Percentile £46,270 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,467 £50,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £79,438
90th Percentile £89,625 £97,500 £91,875
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 60,622 36,670 71,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 93.39% 84.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,997 20,119 53,763
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 £73,410
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%

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 21 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 21 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 -8 54 £80,000 +28.00% 21
North of England -9 33 £48,445 -35.41% 13
South East -8 23 £60,000 -2.04% 15
Midlands -23 15 £60,000 +11.76% 4
North West +16 12 £52,500 +7.69% 8
North East - 12 £48,445 - 5
East of England -4 10 £60,000 -7.69% 3
East Midlands -14 9 £60,000 - 2
Yorkshire -36 9 £48,445 -35.41% 1
West Midlands -44 6 £67,500 +35.42% 2
South West -54 5 £36,423 -21.25% 5
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 6 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.27%) IIS
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.96%) Confluence
3 3 (1.96%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.31%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.65%) WildFly
Applications
1 16 (10.46%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 94 (61.44%) Azure
2 70 (45.75%) AWS
3 31 (20.26%) Azure AKS
3 31 (20.26%) IaaS
4 28 (18.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 27 (17.65%) Azure Key Vault
5 27 (17.65%) Azure Storage
6 16 (10.46%) GCP
7 15 (9.80%) OCI
8 9 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.58%) SaaS
10 7 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (3.27%) Datadog
11 5 (3.27%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.27%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (58.17%) Firewall
2 57 (37.25%) DNS
3 55 (35.95%) VPN
4 46 (30.07%) BGP
5 43 (28.10%) WAN
6 37 (24.18%) OSPF
7 33 (21.57%) LAN
8 32 (20.92%) Network Security
8 32 (20.92%) VLAN
9 24 (15.69%) VXLAN
10 22 (14.38%) NGFW
11 21 (13.73%) Cisco ASA
11 21 (13.73%) Cisco Nexus
12 20 (13.07%) Wireless
13 17 (11.11%) SD-WAN
13 17 (11.11%) TCP/IP
14 16 (10.46%) Cisco Firepower
14 16 (10.46%) Cisco Wireless
14 16 (10.46%) EIGRP
14 16 (10.46%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.27%) MySQL
3 4 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.65%) Redis
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.23%) GitLab
2 5 (3.27%) Git
3 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.96%) JIRA
4 2 (1.31%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.31%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (34.64%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (22.22%) Law
3 32 (20.92%) Social Skills
4 23 (15.03%) Finance
5 20 (13.07%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.23%) Retail
6 8 (5.23%) Retail Banking
7 7 (4.58%) Banking
8 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.27%) Legal
9 3 (1.96%) Back Office
9 3 (1.96%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Aviation
11 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (34.64%) Network Engineer
2 38 (24.84%) Senior
3 34 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (18.95%) Azure Engineer
5 27 (17.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 24 (15.69%) Senior Network Engineer
7 20 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (10.46%) Network Manager
9 15 (9.80%) Network Operations Manager
9 15 (9.80%) Operations Manager
10 11 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.88%) Architect
11 9 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.27%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 5 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
14 4 (2.61%) Integration Architect
14 4 (2.61%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.23%) 802.1X
1 8 (5.23%) RESTful
2 5 (3.27%) Kafka
2 5 (3.27%) Middleware
2 5 (3.27%) OAuth
2 5 (3.27%) OAuth2
3 4 (2.61%) JSON
3 4 (2.61%) JWT
3 4 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.61%) REST
3 4 (2.61%) SOAP
3 4 (2.61%) XML
3 4 (2.61%) XML Messaging
4 3 (1.96%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (1.96%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.96%) Node.js
5 2 (1.31%) CSS
5 2 (1.31%) jQuery
5 2 (1.31%) LAMP
5 2 (1.31%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 67 (43.79%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.80%) PKI
3 12 (7.84%) Cloud Native
4 11 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.27%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.61%) Replication
7 3 (1.96%) Blog
7 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Clustering
8 2 (1.31%) CMDB
8 2 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.38%) Linux
2 17 (11.11%) Windows
3 8 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.96%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.31%) CentOS
5 2 (1.31%) Rocky
6 1 (0.65%) Solaris
6 1 (0.65%) Unix
6 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
1 49 (32.03%) Root Cause Analysis
2 41 (26.80%) Agile
2 41 (26.80%) High Availability
3 38 (24.84%) Containerisation
4 34 (22.22%) DevOps
5 33 (21.57%) CI/CD
5 33 (21.57%) Mentoring
6 31 (20.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 30 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (15.03%) Coaching
9 22 (14.38%) Computer Science
9 22 (14.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (13.73%) Collaborative Working
11 19 (12.42%) Project Delivery
12 17 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
13 16 (10.46%) ITIL
13 16 (10.46%) ITSM
13 16 (10.46%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 51 (33.33%) Python
2 36 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.19%) Bash
3 11 (7.19%) SQL
4 7 (4.58%) Java
5 5 (3.27%) Go
6 3 (1.96%) Bicep
7 2 (1.31%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.31%) PHP
8 1 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 42 (27.45%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (24.18%) CCNP
3 32 (20.92%) Azure Certification
4 24 (15.69%) Degree
5 21 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (12.42%) CCIE
7 17 (11.11%) Security Cleared
8 10 (6.54%) SC Cleared
9 9 (5.88%) CCNA
10 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.96%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.65%) CCSM
13 1 (0.65%) CCSP
13 1 (0.65%) CISSP
13 1 (0.65%) IISP
13 1 (0.65%) ISACA
13 1 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.46%) PMO
2 6 (3.92%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.92%) QA
3 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.61%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.31%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) COBIT
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (10.46%) ProxySG
2 13 (8.50%) Docker
3 10 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.27%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.61%) Firmware
6 3 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.31%) vSphere
8 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (34.64%) Kubernetes
2 46 (30.07%) Terraform
3 33 (21.57%) Ansible
4 9 (5.88%) Check_MK
5 6 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.27%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.61%) Grafana
7 4 (2.61%) Nagios
8 3 (1.96%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (1.96%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.31%) Istio
9 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.31%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.65%) Argo
10 1 (0.65%) Cilium
10 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (32.03%) Cisco
2 29 (18.95%) F5
3 27 (17.65%) SolarWinds
4 25 (16.34%) Microsoft
4 25 (16.34%) Palo Alto
5 21 (13.73%) CheckPoint
5 21 (13.73%) Infoblox
6 20 (13.07%) Arista
7 18 (11.76%) Aruba
8 17 (11.11%) Blue Coat
9 16 (10.46%) Motorola
9 16 (10.46%) ServiceNow
9 16 (10.46%) VMware
10 15 (9.80%) NetScout
11 10 (6.54%) Fortinet
12 8 (5.23%) Dell
13 6 (3.92%) Red Hat
13 6 (3.92%) Zscaler
14 4 (2.61%) Splunk
15 3 (1.96%) HP