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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 576 646
Rank change year-on-year +36 +70 -117
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 177 83 213
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.22% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 126 52 175
10th Percentile £46,446 £44,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £54,063 £50,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,313 £79,375
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,250 £89,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% +6.52%

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 63,663 38,500 75,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 91.01% 82.28%
Number of salaries quoted 44,969 21,724 54,278
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -5 62 £82,500 +26.92% 24
North of England -4 36 £52,500 -30.00% 8
South East -18 33 £60,000 -23.81% 21
Midlands -13 18 £60,000 +30.43% 3
North West +7 17 £52,500 +10.53% 4
East of England -8 11 £60,000 -7.69% 11
North East - 11 £48,445 - 2
East Midlands -16 9 £60,000 -
West Midlands -16 9 £70,000 +52.17% 3
Yorkshire -27 8 £48,445 -39.44% 3
South West -61 6 £36,423 -21.25% 4
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 10 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.26%) IIS
4 3 (1.69%) nginx
4 3 (1.69%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.56%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (6.78%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 102 (57.63%) Azure
2 74 (41.81%) AWS
3 38 (21.47%) Azure AKS
4 35 (19.77%) IaaS
5 29 (16.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 28 (15.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 28 (15.82%) Azure Storage
7 17 (9.60%) GCP
8 15 (8.47%) OCI
9 10 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (5.65%) PaaS
10 9 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (5.08%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.52%) GitHub
11 8 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.52%) Serverless
11 8 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 93 (52.54%) Firewall
2 63 (35.59%) DNS
3 60 (33.90%) VPN
4 48 (27.12%) BGP
5 42 (23.73%) WAN
6 35 (19.77%) OSPF
7 34 (19.21%) LAN
7 34 (19.21%) Network Security
8 30 (16.95%) VLAN
9 27 (15.25%) VXLAN
10 24 (13.56%) NGFW
11 20 (11.30%) Cisco Nexus
12 19 (10.73%) TCP/IP
13 18 (10.17%) Cisco Firepower
13 18 (10.17%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (9.60%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (9.04%) SD-WAN
15 16 (9.04%) Wireless
16 15 (8.47%) Wireshark
17 12 (6.78%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.39%) MySQL
2 6 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.26%) Apache Hive
4 4 (2.26%) Big Data
4 4 (2.26%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.26%) HBase
4 4 (2.26%) Redis
5 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.95%) GitLab
2 6 (3.39%) Git
3 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.13%) JIRA
3 2 (1.13%) PHPUnit
3 2 (1.13%) Selenium
General
1 49 (27.68%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (22.60%) Social Skills
3 38 (21.47%) Law
4 30 (16.95%) Finance
5 20 (11.30%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.08%) Retail
7 8 (4.52%) Legal
7 8 (4.52%) Retail Banking
8 7 (3.95%) Banking
9 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.82%) Marketing
10 4 (2.26%) Aviation
10 4 (2.26%) Military
10 4 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.69%) Back Office
11 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Advertising
13 1 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 50 (28.25%) Network Engineer
2 43 (24.29%) Senior
3 39 (22.03%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (19.77%) Azure Engineer
5 28 (15.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 23 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (11.86%) Senior Network Engineer
8 16 (9.04%) Network Manager
8 16 (9.04%) Operations Manager
9 15 (8.47%) Network Operations Manager
10 12 (6.78%) Architect
10 12 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (6.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.95%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 6 (3.39%) Network Security Specialist
14 6 (3.39%) Senior Network Security Specialist
14 6 (3.39%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.08%) Kafka
1 9 (5.08%) RESTful
2 8 (4.52%) 802.1X
3 7 (3.95%) Node.js
3 7 (3.95%) OAuth
3 7 (3.95%) OAuth2
4 5 (2.82%) Middleware
4 5 (2.82%) REST
5 4 (2.26%) JSON
5 4 (2.26%) JWT
5 4 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.26%) SOAP
5 4 (2.26%) XML
5 4 (2.26%) XML Messaging
5 4 (2.26%) YAML
6 3 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.69%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.69%) LAMP
6 3 (1.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 66 (37.29%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.04%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.47%) PKI
4 10 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.52%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.95%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.39%) Replication
8 5 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.82%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.26%) Clustering
9 4 (2.26%) CMDB
9 4 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.26%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.69%) Blog
10 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.82%) Linux
2 16 (9.04%) Windows
3 8 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.69%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.13%) CentOS
5 2 (1.13%) Rocky
6 1 (0.56%) Solaris
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (27.68%) Containerisation
3 47 (26.55%) Agile
3 47 (26.55%) Root Cause Analysis
4 45 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (24.86%) High Availability
6 43 (24.29%) CI/CD
7 38 (21.47%) DevOps
8 36 (20.34%) Mentoring
9 32 (18.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (13.56%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (12.99%) Coaching
11 23 (12.99%) Collaborative Working
12 22 (12.43%) Computer Science
13 19 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (10.73%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (10.17%) Analytics
14 18 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (9.60%) ITIL
16 16 (9.04%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 57 (32.20%) Python
2 44 (24.86%) PowerShell
3 23 (12.99%) SQL
4 14 (7.91%) Bash
5 12 (6.78%) Java
6 7 (3.95%) PHP
7 6 (3.39%) Go
8 5 (2.82%) C
9 4 (2.26%) C#
9 4 (2.26%) Ruby
10 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 39 (22.03%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (20.34%) Azure Certification
3 34 (19.21%) CCNP
4 28 (15.82%) Security Cleared
5 23 (12.99%) Degree
6 19 (10.73%) SC Cleared
7 17 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (7.91%) CCIE
9 12 (6.78%) CCNA
10 9 (5.08%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.56%) CCSE
12 1 (0.56%) CCSM
12 1 (0.56%) CCSP
12 1 (0.56%) CISM
12 1 (0.56%) CISSP
12 1 (0.56%) IISP
12 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.78%) PMO
2 6 (3.39%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.39%) QA
3 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) SLA
4 3 (1.69%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.13%) GDPR
5 2 (1.13%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.56%) COBIT
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (7.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (7.34%) Docker
3 12 (6.78%) ProxySG
4 11 (6.21%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.82%) Firmware
5 5 (2.82%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) Squid
7 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (37.29%) Kubernetes
2 54 (30.51%) Terraform
3 30 (16.95%) Ansible
4 9 (5.08%) Check_MK
4 9 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (3.95%) Grafana
6 6 (3.39%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.82%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.26%) Argo
8 4 (2.26%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.26%) Nagios
9 3 (1.69%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.69%) Istio
9 3 (1.69%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.13%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.56%) Cilium
11 1 (0.56%) linkerd
11 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (27.12%) Cisco
2 36 (20.34%) Microsoft
3 29 (16.38%) Palo Alto
4 24 (13.56%) F5
5 23 (12.99%) SolarWinds
6 22 (12.43%) Aruba
6 22 (12.43%) VMware
7 20 (11.30%) Arista
8 16 (9.04%) CheckPoint
8 16 (9.04%) Infoblox
9 15 (8.47%) NetScout
10 14 (7.91%) Fortinet
11 12 (6.78%) Blue Coat
11 12 (6.78%) Motorola
11 12 (6.78%) ServiceNow
12 8 (4.52%) Dell
12 8 (4.52%) HP
12 8 (4.52%) Zscaler
13 7 (3.95%) Oracle
13 7 (3.95%) Red Hat