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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 567 469
Rank change year-on-year +41 -98 +178
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 90 148 234
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.24% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.29% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 37 79 190
10th Percentile £55,750 £39,550 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,750 £87,600 £95,436
UK median annual salary £77,500 £59,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +30.80% +3.04% -4.17%

All Process and 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 38,012 50,328 44,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 87.18% 82.98% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 23,186 26,406 34,286
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,285 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.53% - -

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 +72 59 £93,750 +27.12% 34
South East +3 15 £78,750 +34.62% 32
North of England 0 7 £85,000 +70.00% 15
Yorkshire +12 6 £85,000 +54.55% 5
West Midlands +37 2 - - 9
Midlands +30 2 - - 9
East of England +26 2 £57,500 -17.86% 10
South West +24 1 - - 10
North West -2 1 - - 9
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 (5.56%) Apache
2 3 (3.33%) IIS
2 3 (3.33%) JBoss
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.11%) CMS
Applications
1 18 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.78%) Azure
2 40 (44.44%) AWS
3 11 (12.22%) SaaS
4 9 (10.00%) GCP
5 6 (6.67%) OCI
6 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.33%) IaaS
8 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.33%) Serverless
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.22%) PaaS
9 2 (2.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 54 (60.00%) Firewall
2 45 (50.00%) LAN
3 35 (38.89%) VPN
4 30 (33.33%) BGP
4 30 (33.33%) WAN
5 28 (31.11%) OSPF
6 27 (30.00%) Wireless
7 25 (27.78%) Network Security
8 22 (24.44%) SD-WAN
9 16 (17.78%) DNS
10 14 (15.56%) VLAN
10 14 (15.56%) Wireshark
11 13 (14.44%) EIGRP
11 13 (14.44%) TCP/IP
12 12 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (8.89%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (8.89%) SSL
14 7 (7.78%) Ethernet VPN
14 7 (7.78%) WLAN
15 6 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.44%) KDB
2 4 (4.44%) Kdb+
3 3 (3.33%) MySQL
3 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Git
2 5 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.44%) Maven
4 3 (3.33%) Ant
4 3 (3.33%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.33%) JIRA
4 3 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.22%) MSBuild
General
1 37 (41.11%) Finance
2 30 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (12.22%) Law
6 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (11.11%) Marketing
7 9 (10.00%) Telecoms
8 7 (7.78%) Banking
9 4 (4.44%) Retail
10 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.22%) Back Office
11 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.22%) Legal
12 1 (1.11%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 49 (54.44%) Network Engineer
2 27 (30.00%) Senior
3 15 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Lead
5 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Deployment Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Web Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Network Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Network Support
9 4 (4.44%) Network Support Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) .NET
1 4 (4.44%) 802.1X
1 4 (4.44%) REST
2 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.33%) Kafka
2 3 (3.33%) Middleware
3 2 (2.22%) LAMP
3 2 (2.22%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (2.22%) Node.js
3 2 (2.22%) RESTful
4 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 34 (37.78%) Data Centre
2 13 (14.44%) Management Information System
3 10 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.67%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.44%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.44%) Web3
6 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.33%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.22%) Clustering
7 2 (2.22%) PKI
8 1 (1.11%) Replication
8 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Linux
1 7 (7.78%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.00%) Change Management
3 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 13 (14.44%) Capacity Planning
4 13 (14.44%) Change Control
4 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (14.44%) Inventory Management
4 13 (14.44%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (14.44%) Process Improvement
4 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
5 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 12 (13.33%) DevOps
5 12 (13.33%) High Availability
5 12 (13.33%) Migration
5 12 (13.33%) Validation
6 11 (12.22%) Agile
7 10 (11.11%) Low Latency
7 10 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.67%) Python
2 12 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 10 (11.11%) Bash
4 8 (8.89%) Java
5 4 (4.44%) C
5 4 (4.44%) C++
5 4 (4.44%) SQL
6 3 (3.33%) Groovy
6 3 (3.33%) VB
7 2 (2.22%) C#
7 2 (2.22%) Go
7 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (36.67%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (34.44%) CCNP
3 22 (24.44%) Degree
4 20 (22.22%) CCIE
5 14 (15.56%) Security Cleared
6 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 8 (8.89%) CCSA
7 8 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (7.78%) CCSE
9 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
10 4 (4.44%) CCNA
11 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.11%) Check Point Certification
11 1 (1.11%) CISSP
11 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.11%) MCSE
11 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.11%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) PMO
2 4 (4.44%) SLA
3 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.22%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.11%) GDPR
5 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.11%) NIST
5 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) ProxySG
2 6 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.33%) Docker
4 3 (3.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.22%) KVM
5 2 (2.22%) pfSense
5 2 (2.22%) vSphere
5 2 (2.22%) Xen
6 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (34.44%) Ansible
2 25 (27.78%) Terraform
3 15 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.56%) Puppet
5 3 (3.33%) FortiGate
5 3 (3.33%) Podman
6 2 (2.22%) CFEngine
6 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.22%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.11%) Argo
7 1 (1.11%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (1.11%) Nagios
7 1 (1.11%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.11%) SCCM
7 1 (1.11%) vRealize
7 1 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (55.56%) Cisco
2 31 (34.44%) F5
3 28 (31.11%) CheckPoint
4 21 (23.33%) SolarWinds
5 19 (21.11%) Palo Alto
6 10 (11.11%) VMware
7 9 (10.00%) Blue Coat
7 9 (10.00%) Meraki
8 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
9 6 (6.67%) Infoblox
9 6 (6.67%) Motorola
10 5 (5.56%) Arista
10 5 (5.56%) Aruba
10 5 (5.56%) Citrix
11 4 (4.44%) Broadcom
11 4 (4.44%) Netskope
11 4 (4.44%) Symantec
11 4 (4.44%) Zscaler
12 3 (3.33%) EMC
13 2 (2.22%) Oracle