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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 354 433
Rank change year-on-year -11 +79 +54
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 58 38 78
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.27% 0.31% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.33% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 39 15 56
10th Percentile £58,250 - £58,125
25th Percentile £67,500 £50,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -31.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £87,813
90th Percentile £113,000 £93,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Process & 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 17,564 11,661 21,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.53% 95.72% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,998 7,028 16,145
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,731 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,800 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 June 2026.

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 June 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
Central London +6 6 £90,000 +28.57% 5
South London +18 1 £47,500 -7.77%
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 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.17%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 2 (3.45%) nginx
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.72%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.72%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 28 (48.28%) AWS
2 24 (41.38%) Azure
3 14 (24.14%) GCP
4 8 (13.79%) OpenShift
5 7 (12.07%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
6 6 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (8.62%) Serverless
8 4 (6.90%) Datadog
8 4 (6.90%) GitHub
8 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.90%) Nutanix
8 4 (6.90%) SaaS
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (5.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 32 (55.17%) Firewall
1 32 (55.17%) VPN
2 24 (41.38%) BGP
3 20 (34.48%) WAN
4 17 (29.31%) OSPF
5 15 (25.86%) DNS
5 15 (25.86%) LAN
6 12 (20.69%) SD-WAN
6 12 (20.69%) TCP/IP
6 12 (20.69%) VLAN
7 11 (18.97%) Network Security
8 10 (17.24%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (17.24%) VoIP
9 9 (15.52%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (10.34%) VXLAN
11 3 (5.17%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (5.17%) HSRP
11 3 (5.17%) Multicast
11 3 (5.17%) WLAN
12 2 (3.45%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.45%) MySQL
3 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.72%) Big Data
4 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.72%) HBase
4 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (13.79%) GitLab
2 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.45%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Finance
3 8 (13.79%) Retail Banking
4 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.07%) Banking
4 7 (12.07%) Retail
5 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.90%) Law
6 3 (5.17%) Back Office
6 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.17%) Legal
7 2 (3.45%) Marketing
7 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.72%) Advertising
8 1 (1.72%) Aviation
8 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Military
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Network Engineer
2 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Network Security Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Network Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Security Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Network Security Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Network Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Security Specialist
7 4 (6.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) 802.1X
2 4 (6.90%) Node.js
2 4 (6.90%) RESTful
3 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.45%) Kafka
3 2 (3.45%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (1.72%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.72%) gRPC
4 1 (1.72%) Middleware
4 1 (1.72%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (1.72%) OAuth
4 1 (1.72%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.72%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.72%) OpenID
4 1 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.72%) pytest
4 1 (1.72%) REST
4 1 (1.72%) Swagger
4 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (34.48%) Data Centre
2 10 (17.24%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Blog
4 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.17%) Replication
5 1 (1.72%) CMDB
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (27.59%) Linux
2 8 (13.79%) Windows
3 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.45%) CentOS
4 2 (3.45%) Rocky
4 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (29.31%) DevOps
4 13 (22.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (22.41%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (20.69%) ITIL
6 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
7 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (17.24%) Observability
8 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (15.52%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
9 8 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (12.07%) Analytics
10 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.07%) Validation
10 7 (12.07%) Zero Trust
11 6 (10.34%) High Availability
11 6 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) Bash
3 6 (10.34%) SQL
4 5 (8.62%) Go
4 5 (8.62%) Java
4 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.45%) Bicep
5 2 (3.45%) C
5 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.72%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) PHP
6 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (31.03%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (22.41%) CCNP
3 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) CCNA
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.90%) Degree
7 2 (3.45%) CCIE
7 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.45%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.72%) CCSP
8 1 (1.72%) CISM
8 1 (1.72%) CISSP
8 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.17%) SOC 2
2 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
2 2 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) COBIT
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Active Directory
1 7 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.17%) Docker
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.72%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.72%) Firmware
4 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (46.55%) Terraform
2 18 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 15 (25.86%) Ansible
4 9 (15.52%) Check_MK
5 5 (8.62%) FortiGate
5 5 (8.62%) Grafana
5 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.17%) Proxmox
6 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.45%) Argo
7 2 (3.45%) Istio
7 2 (3.45%) Nagios
7 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.72%) Cilium
8 1 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.72%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Cisco
2 14 (24.14%) Palo Alto
3 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
4 11 (18.97%) SolarWinds
4 11 (18.97%) VMware
5 7 (12.07%) Red Hat
5 7 (12.07%) Zscaler
6 6 (10.34%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.17%) Dell
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle
8 2 (3.45%) Citrix
8 2 (3.45%) F5
8 2 (3.45%) IBM
8 2 (3.45%) Meraki
8 2 (3.45%) Splunk
8 2 (3.45%) Veeam
9 1 (1.72%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.72%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.72%) Commvault
9 1 (1.72%) HP