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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 412 364
Rank change year-on-year +86 -48 +187
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 62 36 97
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.48% 0.21% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.23% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 85
10th Percentile £46,309 £47,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,779 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £71,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -1.72% -3.33%
75th Percentile £115,313 £85,313 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £91,250 £107,500
England median annual salary £78,750 £58,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -10.00%

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 11,900 15,666 17,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 92.18% 90.70% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 9,181 14,327
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend 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 November 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 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
Central London +47 3 £102,500 +17.14% 17
East London - 2 - -
West London - 1 - -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.23%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) JBoss
2 2 (3.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (30.65%) MS Visio
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) Azure
2 22 (35.48%) AWS
3 7 (11.29%) SaaS
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (4.84%) Route 53
4 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) GCP
5 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (64.52%) Firewall
2 39 (62.90%) LAN
3 25 (40.32%) WAN
3 25 (40.32%) Wireless
4 23 (37.10%) BGP
4 23 (37.10%) VPN
5 20 (32.26%) OSPF
6 18 (29.03%) SD-WAN
7 16 (25.81%) Network Security
8 14 (22.58%) Wireshark
9 12 (19.35%) EIGRP
10 10 (16.13%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (14.52%) DNS
12 8 (12.90%) VLAN
13 7 (11.29%) Ethernet VPN
13 7 (11.29%) TCP/IP
14 6 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (9.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 6 (9.68%) NX-OS
14 6 (9.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) KDB
1 4 (6.45%) Kdb+
2 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Ant
1 2 (3.23%) Artifactory
1 2 (3.23%) Git
1 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.23%) JIRA
1 2 (3.23%) Maven
1 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (61.29%) Finance
2 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
3 15 (24.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (20.97%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (17.74%) Law
6 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (16.13%) Marketing
6 10 (16.13%) Telecoms
7 9 (14.52%) Banking
8 3 (4.84%) Back Office
8 3 (4.84%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.84%) Retail
9 1 (1.61%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 36 (58.06%) Network Engineer
2 21 (33.87%) Senior
3 15 (24.19%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Deployment Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Lead
6 8 (12.90%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Network Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Network Support
7 4 (6.45%) Network Support Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Support Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Web Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) 802.1X
1 4 (6.45%) REST
2 3 (4.84%) RESTful
3 2 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.23%) Kafka
3 2 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (53.23%) Data Centre
2 10 (16.13%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.29%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.45%) Low-Code
4 4 (6.45%) Web3
5 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.23%) PKI
6 2 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Windows
2 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.23%) Linux
3 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (30.65%) Change Management
3 14 (22.58%) Inventory Management
4 13 (20.97%) Change Control
4 13 (20.97%) Network Monitoring
4 13 (20.97%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (20.97%) Process Improvement
4 13 (20.97%) Validation
5 12 (19.35%) Capacity Planning
5 12 (19.35%) Customer Service
5 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (17.74%) Low Latency
6 11 (17.74%) Migration
7 10 (16.13%) High Availability
8 9 (14.52%) CI/CD
8 9 (14.52%) Project Delivery
9 8 (12.90%) Coaching
9 8 (12.90%) Critical Thinking
9 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.94%) Python
2 7 (11.29%) Java
3 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.45%) C
4 4 (6.45%) C++
5 3 (4.84%) Go
6 2 (3.23%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (45.16%) CCNP
1 28 (45.16%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (33.87%) Degree
3 20 (32.26%) CCIE
4 9 (14.52%) CCSA
5 8 (12.90%) CCSE
6 7 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.61%) CCNA
8 1 (1.61%) Check Point Certification
8 1 (1.61%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) PMO
2 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.84%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.84%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.23%) SLA
5 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) ProxySG
2 5 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.84%) vSphere
5 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.23%) pfSense
5 2 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (25.81%) Ansible
2 15 (24.19%) Terraform
3 10 (16.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.23%) Podman
4 2 (3.23%) Puppet
5 1 (1.61%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (1.61%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 45 (72.58%) Cisco
2 27 (43.55%) CheckPoint
2 27 (43.55%) F5
3 21 (33.87%) SolarWinds
4 16 (25.81%) Palo Alto
5 9 (14.52%) Meraki
6 8 (12.90%) Blue Coat
6 8 (12.90%) VMware
7 6 (9.68%) Infoblox
7 6 (9.68%) Motorola
8 5 (8.06%) Arista
8 5 (8.06%) Aruba
8 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
9 4 (6.45%) Broadcom
9 4 (6.45%) Netskope
9 4 (6.45%) Symantec
9 4 (6.45%) Zscaler
10 3 (4.84%) EMC
11 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.61%) Juniper