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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 567 614
Rank change year-on-year +37 +47 -87
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 182 90 193
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 131 54 153
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £50,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,750 £89,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +11.30%

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 65,435 39,048 67,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.78% 90.09% 82.07%
Number of salaries quoted 46,356 22,384 46,918
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £74,408
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

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 21 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 21 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 +9 70 £81,250 +25.00% 34
South East -8 41 £60,000 -22.58% 14
North of England -5 29 £52,500 -30.00% 15
Midlands -22 19 £60,000 +30.43% 3
North West +10 16 £52,500 +10.53% 9
East of England -1 11 £60,000 -7.69% 6
West Midlands -17 10 £67,500 +46.74% 3
East Midlands -14 9 £60,000 -
North East - 7 £57,010 -
Yorkshire -38 6 £48,445 -39.44% 6
South West -56 5 £36,423 -21.25% 3
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 11 (6.04%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.85%) nginx
3 6 (3.30%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.75%) Apache
4 5 (2.75%) IIS
4 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.65%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.10%) Confluence
7 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.55%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (4.40%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (51.65%) Azure
2 67 (36.81%) AWS
3 38 (20.88%) Azure AKS
4 35 (19.23%) IaaS
5 29 (15.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 28 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 28 (15.38%) Azure Storage
7 22 (12.09%) GCP
8 11 (6.04%) Serverless
9 10 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (5.49%) PaaS
10 9 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.95%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.40%) GitHub
11 8 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (3.85%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 93 (51.10%) Firewall
2 74 (40.66%) DNS
3 60 (32.97%) VPN
4 47 (25.82%) BGP
5 40 (21.98%) WAN
6 33 (18.13%) LAN
6 33 (18.13%) Network Security
7 30 (16.48%) OSPF
8 26 (14.29%) VLAN
9 23 (12.64%) TCP/IP
10 19 (10.44%) VXLAN
11 18 (9.89%) Cisco Nexus
11 18 (9.89%) NGFW
12 17 (9.34%) Cisco Firepower
12 17 (9.34%) SD-WAN
13 14 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (6.59%) Wireless
16 11 (6.04%) Cisco ISE
17 8 (4.40%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.85%) Big Data
2 7 (3.85%) MySQL
2 7 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.30%) Apache Hive
3 6 (3.30%) Hadoop
3 6 (3.30%) HBase
3 6 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.20%) Redis
5 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Git
1 7 (3.85%) GitLab
2 3 (1.65%) PHPUnit
2 3 (1.65%) Selenium
3 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 47 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.53%) Finance
2 41 (22.53%) Law
3 37 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.04%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.04%) Retail
5 10 (5.49%) Legal
6 7 (3.85%) Banking
6 7 (3.85%) Marketing
6 7 (3.85%) Retail Banking
7 6 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.30%) Military
7 6 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.75%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.20%) Aviation
10 3 (1.65%) Back Office
10 3 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.55%) Advertising
11 1 (0.55%) Electronics
11 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (28.02%) Network Engineer
2 46 (25.27%) Senior
3 39 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
5 28 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 24 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (10.44%) Senior Network Engineer
8 13 (7.14%) Architect
9 12 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) Operations Manager
11 9 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.40%) Network Manager
13 7 (3.85%) Network Operations Manager
13 7 (3.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 6 (3.30%) Network Security Specialist
14 6 (3.30%) Network Specialist
14 6 (3.30%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.04%) Kafka
2 9 (4.95%) Node.js
2 9 (4.95%) RESTful
3 7 (3.85%) 802.1X
4 6 (3.30%) OAuth
4 6 (3.30%) OAuth2
4 6 (3.30%) REST
5 5 (2.75%) Middleware
6 4 (2.20%) JSON
6 4 (2.20%) JWT
6 4 (2.20%) LAMP
6 4 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.20%) SOAP
6 4 (2.20%) Web Services
6 4 (2.20%) XML
6 4 (2.20%) XML Messaging
6 4 (2.20%) YAML
7 3 (1.65%) CSS
7 3 (1.65%) HTML
7 3 (1.65%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.02%) Data Centre
2 19 (10.44%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.95%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.85%) PKI
7 6 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.30%) Replication
8 5 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.75%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.20%) Blog
9 4 (2.20%) Clustering
9 4 (2.20%) CMDB
9 4 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.20%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.20%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.88%) Linux
2 20 (10.99%) Windows
3 11 (6.04%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.20%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.20%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.10%) CentOS
5 2 (1.10%) Rocky
5 2 (1.10%) Unix
6 1 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (26.92%) Containerisation
1 49 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 48 (26.37%) Agile
2 48 (26.37%) CI/CD
2 48 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (25.82%) High Availability
4 43 (23.63%) Root Cause Analysis
5 42 (23.08%) DevOps
6 32 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 30 (16.48%) Mentoring
8 26 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (13.74%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (11.54%) Analytics
10 21 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
10 21 (11.54%) Computer Science
11 19 (10.44%) Roadmaps
12 18 (9.89%) ITIL
13 16 (8.79%) Observability
13 16 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.47%) Python
2 44 (24.18%) PowerShell
3 25 (13.74%) SQL
4 14 (7.69%) Bash
4 14 (7.69%) Java
5 13 (7.14%) PHP
6 7 (3.85%) C
6 7 (3.85%) Go
7 6 (3.30%) C#
7 6 (3.30%) Ruby
8 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.55%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 37 (20.33%) Cisco Certification
3 32 (17.58%) CCNP
4 28 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 22 (12.09%) Degree
6 21 (11.54%) SC Cleared
7 14 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (6.59%) CCNA
9 11 (6.04%) CCIE
10 7 (3.85%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.55%) CCSM
13 1 (0.55%) IISP
13 1 (0.55%) ISACA
13 1 (0.55%) JNCIE
13 1 (0.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) PCI DSS
1 8 (4.40%) PMO
2 6 (3.30%) QA
3 4 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.20%) SLA
4 3 (1.65%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.10%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) COBIT
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (9.34%) Docker
3 10 (5.49%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.95%) ProxySG
5 5 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.75%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.20%) Firmware
6 4 (2.20%) Squid
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 49 (26.92%) Terraform
3 25 (13.74%) Ansible
4 10 (5.49%) Grafana
5 8 (4.40%) Check_MK
5 8 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.85%) Argo
6 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (3.30%) FortiGate
7 6 (3.30%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (3.30%) Istio
8 4 (2.20%) Nagios
9 3 (1.65%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.65%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.65%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.55%) Cilium
11 1 (0.55%) linkerd
Vendors
1 47 (25.82%) Cisco
2 42 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 30 (16.48%) Palo Alto
4 26 (14.29%) VMware
5 25 (13.74%) F5
6 18 (9.89%) SolarWinds
7 16 (8.79%) Aruba
8 14 (7.69%) Arista
8 14 (7.69%) CheckPoint
8 14 (7.69%) Fortinet
9 12 (6.59%) Infoblox
10 11 (6.04%) Zscaler
11 10 (5.49%) HP
12 9 (4.95%) Blue Coat
12 9 (4.95%) Oracle
13 8 (4.40%) Dell
13 8 (4.40%) Google
13 8 (4.40%) Motorola
13 8 (4.40%) ServiceNow
13 8 (4.40%) Veeam