Load Balancing Jobs in England

Load Balancing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 627 505
Rank change year-on-year +20 -122 +153
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 90 225 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.25% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.30% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 55 159 210
10th Percentile £44,000 £39,950 £40,950
25th Percentile £50,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £89,000 £95,517
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -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 47,315 74,118 71,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 90.14% 82.56% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,083 51,935 47,067
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,500 £40,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £81,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in England.

Salary trend for Load Balancing in England

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in England over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 July 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 +87 50 £65,000 -21.21% 49
South East +55 17 £77,500 +32.48% 28
Midlands +37 8 £46,000 -7.07% 13
North of England +28 8 £75,000 +25.00% 21
West Midlands +48 7 £46,000 -12.38% 12
Yorkshire +37 7 £80,000 +30.61% 4
South West +80 3 £46,250 -19.57% 10
East of England +28 2 £65,000 +36.84% 10
East Midlands +27 1 £60,000 +41.18% 1
North West -4 1 £47,500 -20.83% 16
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.44%) Apache
2 4 (4.44%) nginx
2 4 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.44%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.22%) JBoss
3 2 (2.22%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.22%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.78%) AWS
2 38 (42.22%) Azure
3 16 (17.78%) GCP
4 13 (14.44%) SaaS
5 10 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 8 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (6.67%) OCI
9 5 (5.56%) IaaS
9 5 (5.56%) PaaS
10 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.44%) Azure App Service
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Storage
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Table
10 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (4.44%) Route 53
10 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 47 (52.22%) Firewall
2 35 (38.89%) VPN
3 27 (30.00%) LAN
4 25 (27.78%) Network Security
5 22 (24.44%) WAN
6 20 (22.22%) VLAN
7 19 (21.11%) BGP
7 19 (21.11%) OSPF
8 17 (18.89%) DNS
8 17 (18.89%) SD-WAN
9 13 (14.44%) TCP/IP
9 13 (14.44%) Wireless
10 9 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
10 9 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (8.89%) HTTPS
12 7 (7.78%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (7.78%) SSL
13 6 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (6.67%) DHCP
13 6 (6.67%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.67%) MySQL
3 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.44%) KDB
4 4 (4.44%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.11%) Endeca
6 1 (1.11%) Power BI
6 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.44%) Maven
4 3 (3.33%) GitLab
5 2 (2.22%) Ant
5 2 (2.22%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.22%) JIRA
5 2 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.11%) Gradle
6 1 (1.11%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.11%) Selenium
General
1 23 (25.56%) Finance
2 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.89%) Banking
4 14 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (11.11%) Law
6 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.78%) Marketing
7 7 (7.78%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
9 1 (1.11%) Aviation
9 1 (1.11%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 20 (22.22%) Senior
3 16 (17.78%) Lead
4 12 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Administrator
8 5 (5.56%) Lead Network Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Web Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.67%) .NET
2 5 (5.56%) Node.js
3 4 (4.44%) JSON
3 4 (4.44%) REST
4 3 (3.33%) 802.1X
4 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.33%) LAMP
4 3 (3.33%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (2.22%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.22%) Kafka
5 2 (2.22%) LAPP Stack
5 2 (2.22%) Middleware
5 2 (2.22%) React
5 2 (2.22%) RESTful
5 2 (2.22%) XML
6 1 (1.11%) JWT
6 1 (1.11%) Laravel
6 1 (1.11%) LDAP
6 1 (1.11%) OAuth
6 1 (1.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.22%) PKI
7 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.11%) Clustering
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.11%) SCADA
8 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.11%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.89%) Windows
2 13 (14.44%) Linux
3 10 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.33%) CentOS
4 3 (3.33%) Rocky
5 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.22%) Unix
5 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
3 18 (20.00%) Change Management
4 16 (17.78%) DevOps
5 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (13.33%) Agile
6 12 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 12 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (12.22%) High Availability
8 10 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (11.11%) Inventory Management
8 10 (11.11%) Migration
8 10 (11.11%) Validation
9 9 (10.00%) Change Control
9 9 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (10.00%) Network Design
10 8 (8.89%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.89%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (41.11%) Python
2 15 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 15 (16.67%) SQL
3 11 (12.22%) Bash
4 8 (8.89%) Java
5 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.44%) C
6 4 (4.44%) C++
7 3 (3.33%) C#
7 3 (3.33%) VB
8 2 (2.22%) Groovy
8 2 (2.22%) PHP
8 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.11%) Go
9 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
9 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.11%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (24.44%) CCNP
3 19 (21.11%) Degree
4 17 (18.89%) Security Cleared
5 9 (10.00%) CCIE
5 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
7 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
8 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Certification
8 5 (5.56%) CCNA
8 5 (5.56%) Check Point Certification
8 5 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (3.33%) CCSA
10 2 (2.22%) CCSE
11 1 (1.11%) CEH
11 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.11%) OSCP
11 1 (1.11%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) SLA
2 4 (4.44%) QA
3 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.22%) PMO
4 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 14 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.89%) Docker
4 7 (7.78%) ProxySG
5 6 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.22%) Firmware
7 2 (2.22%) KVM
7 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.22%) vSphere
7 2 (2.22%) Xen
8 1 (1.11%) pfSense
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 28 (31.11%) Ansible
2 20 (22.22%) Terraform
3 16 (17.78%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.44%) Puppet
5 4 (4.44%) SCCM
6 3 (3.33%) Nagios
6 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (3.33%) SCOM
7 2 (2.22%) CFEngine
7 2 (2.22%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.22%) Grafana
7 2 (2.22%) Podman
7 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.22%) SCOrch
7 2 (2.22%) SCSM
7 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 29 (32.22%) Cisco
2 24 (26.67%) F5
3 16 (17.78%) CheckPoint
3 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
4 15 (16.67%) VMware
5 11 (12.22%) SolarWinds
6 8 (8.89%) Fortinet
7 7 (7.78%) Blue Coat
8 6 (6.67%) Citrix
8 6 (6.67%) Google
8 6 (6.67%) Palo Alto
9 5 (5.56%) Zscaler
10 4 (4.44%) Aruba
10 4 (4.44%) Broadcom
10 4 (4.44%) Netskope
10 4 (4.44%) Symantec
10 4 (4.44%) Veeam
11 3 (3.33%) Juniper
11 3 (3.33%) Oracle
11 3 (3.33%) Red Hat