Load Balancing Job Trends in London

Load Balancing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 409 404
Rank change year-on-year +82 -5 +208
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 60 50 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.26% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.29% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17 33 82
10th Percentile £50,750 £54,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +8.84% +13.08%
75th Percentile £130,000 £87,500 £95,327
90th Percentile £142,500 £96,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,248 17,247 20,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 94.13% 89.43% 93.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,130 10,487 16,994
10th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in London

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Load Balancing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in London

Load Balancing
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
South London - 4 £51,500 -
East London - 3 £55,000 - 1
West London - 1 - -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (8.33%) Apache
2 3 (5.00%) JBoss
2 3 (5.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) nginx
3 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (28.33%) MS Visio
2 13 (21.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) Azure
2 22 (36.67%) AWS
3 6 (10.00%) SaaS
4 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.67%) Azure App Service
5 4 (6.67%) Azure Storage
5 4 (6.67%) Azure Table
6 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.33%) GCP
7 2 (3.33%) IaaS
7 2 (3.33%) PaaS
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.67%) Datadog
8 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (58.33%) LAN
2 32 (53.33%) Firewall
3 22 (36.67%) WAN
3 22 (36.67%) Wireless
4 20 (33.33%) VPN
5 18 (30.00%) BGP
5 18 (30.00%) Network Security
5 18 (30.00%) OSPF
6 14 (23.33%) SD-WAN
7 12 (20.00%) Wireshark
8 10 (16.67%) EIGRP
8 10 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (10.00%) DNS
10 6 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (10.00%) SSL
10 6 (10.00%) WLAN
11 5 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
11 5 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 5 (8.33%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) KDB
1 4 (6.67%) Kdb+
2 2 (3.33%) MySQL
2 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.67%) Maven
3 3 (5.00%) Ant
3 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (5.00%) JIRA
3 3 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) Gradle
General
1 31 (51.67%) Finance
2 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (21.67%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (16.67%) Banking
6 9 (15.00%) Telecoms
7 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (13.33%) Law
7 8 (13.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 32 (53.33%) Network Engineer
2 20 (33.33%) Senior
3 14 (23.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Lead
5 7 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Network Support
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Web Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) 802.1X
1 4 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (6.67%) REST
2 3 (5.00%) Kafka
2 3 (5.00%) Middleware
3 2 (3.33%) .NET
3 2 (3.33%) LAMP
3 2 (3.33%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (3.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (35.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 4 (6.67%) Web3
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.33%) PKI
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (30.00%) Change Management
3 14 (23.33%) Customer Service
3 14 (23.33%) Inventory Management
4 13 (21.67%) Change Control
4 13 (21.67%) Process Improvement
4 13 (21.67%) Validation
5 12 (20.00%) Migration
6 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
6 11 (18.33%) Network Monitoring
6 11 (18.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 10 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (16.67%) DevOps
7 10 (16.67%) High Availability
8 9 (15.00%) Low Latency
9 8 (13.33%) Agile
9 8 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
9 8 (13.33%) Project Delivery
9 8 (13.33%) Roadmaps
9 8 (13.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) Python
2 6 (10.00%) Java
3 5 (8.33%) Bash
4 4 (6.67%) C
4 4 (6.67%) C++
4 4 (6.67%) SQL
5 3 (5.00%) Groovy
6 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (43.33%) CCNP
1 26 (43.33%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (31.67%) Degree
3 15 (25.00%) CCIE
4 7 (11.67%) CCSA
4 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
5 6 (10.00%) CCSE
6 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (6.67%) Check Point Certification
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.67%) CCNA
9 1 (1.67%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) PMO
2 2 (3.33%) SLA
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) ProxySG
2 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.33%) Docker
4 2 (3.33%) KVM
4 2 (3.33%) pfSense
4 2 (3.33%) Xen
5 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (30.00%) Ansible
2 13 (21.67%) Terraform
3 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (8.33%) Puppet
5 3 (5.00%) Podman
6 2 (3.33%) CFEngine
6 2 (3.33%) Grafana
6 2 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.67%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 38 (63.33%) Cisco
2 25 (41.67%) CheckPoint
3 24 (40.00%) F5
4 18 (30.00%) SolarWinds
5 12 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 8 (13.33%) Blue Coat
6 8 (13.33%) Meraki
7 6 (10.00%) Arista
8 5 (8.33%) Aruba
8 5 (8.33%) Fortinet
8 5 (8.33%) VMware
9 4 (6.67%) Broadcom
9 4 (6.67%) Infoblox
9 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
9 4 (6.67%) Motorola
9 4 (6.67%) Netskope
9 4 (6.67%) Symantec
9 4 (6.67%) Zscaler
10 2 (3.33%) Oracle
10 2 (3.33%) Splunk