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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 321 432
Rank change year-on-year -52 +111 -42
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 70 59 48
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.27% 0.50% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.53% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 40 15 30
10th Percentile £64,800 £50,750 £52,375
25th Percentile £69,375 £52,875 £67,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -20.00% +10.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £91,875
England median annual salary £65,576 £72,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -9.55% +25.00% +3.57%

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 20,733 11,157 17,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.71% 94.15% 89.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13,910 7,043 10,267
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,197 £40,528
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.46% -5.66%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 - 7 £90,000 - 13
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 6 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.43%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.43%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.43%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (41.43%) Azure
2 28 (40.00%) AWS
3 14 (20.00%) GCP
4 9 (12.86%) OpenShift
5 8 (11.43%) GitHub
5 8 (11.43%) Serverless
6 7 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
8 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.71%) Azure AKS
9 4 (5.71%) Datadog
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.29%) IaaS
10 3 (4.29%) PaaS
10 3 (4.29%) Rubrik
11 2 (2.86%) ChatGPT
11 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.86%) Nutanix
11 2 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (48.57%) Firewall
2 30 (42.86%) VPN
3 23 (32.86%) DNS
4 22 (31.43%) BGP
4 22 (31.43%) Network Security
5 16 (22.86%) WAN
6 13 (18.57%) TCP/IP
7 11 (15.71%) LAN
8 10 (14.29%) OSPF
8 10 (14.29%) VLAN
9 8 (11.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 8 (11.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (11.43%) IPsec
9 8 (11.43%) SD-WAN
10 7 (10.00%) MPLS
10 7 (10.00%) VXLAN
11 6 (8.57%) HTTP
11 6 (8.57%) SSL
12 5 (7.14%) NetScaler
13 4 (5.71%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Big Data
2 6 (8.57%) Apache Hive
2 6 (8.57%) Hadoop
2 6 (8.57%) HBase
2 6 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.43%) KDB
4 1 (1.43%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.43%) Metadata
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.43%) Power BI
4 1 (1.43%) Redis
4 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) GitLab
2 5 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.86%) JIRA
4 1 (1.43%) Git
General
1 32 (45.71%) Finance
2 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.14%) Law
4 11 (15.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (15.71%) Marketing
5 6 (8.57%) Military
5 6 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.71%) Legal
7 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.29%) Retail
7 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.86%) Banking
9 1 (1.43%) Advertising
9 1 (1.43%) Aviation
9 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.43%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 16 (22.86%) Network Engineer
2 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (15.71%) Senior
3 8 (11.43%) Architect
4 7 (10.00%) Lead
5 6 (8.57%) Network Security Specialist
5 6 (8.57%) Network Specialist
5 6 (8.57%) Security Specialist
5 6 (8.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 6 (8.57%) Senior Network Security Specialist
5 6 (8.57%) Senior Network Specialist
5 6 (8.57%) Senior Security Specialist
5 6 (8.57%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Network Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.00%) Terraform
2 7 (10.00%) Node.js
3 6 (8.57%) Kafka
3 6 (8.57%) REST
4 3 (4.29%) Dropwizard
4 3 (4.29%) Micronaut
4 3 (4.29%) pytest
5 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.86%) Middleware
5 2 (2.86%) OAuth
5 2 (2.86%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.86%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.86%) OpenID
5 2 (2.86%) Pulumi
5 2 (2.86%) RESTful
5 2 (2.86%) Swagger
6 1 (1.43%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (1.43%) JWT
6 1 (1.43%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (15.71%) Onboarding
3 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.14%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.29%) Replication
7 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.43%) Blog
8 1 (1.43%) CMDB
8 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.43%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.00%) Linux
2 8 (11.43%) Windows
3 3 (4.29%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.86%) Unix
5 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (32.86%) CI/CD
3 21 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 17 (24.29%) Analytics
5 14 (20.00%) DevOps
5 14 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 14 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (18.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (18.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (17.14%) AI
7 12 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (17.14%) Zero Trust
8 11 (15.71%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.86%) Network Segmentation
10 9 (12.86%) Service Delivery
11 8 (11.43%) Cloud Security
11 8 (11.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 26 (37.14%) Python
2 9 (12.86%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.86%) SQL
3 7 (10.00%) C
3 7 (10.00%) Java
4 6 (8.57%) Bash
4 6 (8.57%) C#
4 6 (8.57%) PHP
4 6 (8.57%) Ruby
5 2 (2.86%) Bicep
6 1 (1.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (15.71%) CCNP
2 11 (15.71%) Degree
3 8 (11.43%) CCNA
4 7 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (8.57%) Azure Certification
5 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.29%) CCIE
6 3 (4.29%) CCSP
6 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.43%) CISM
8 1 (1.43%) CISSP
8 1 (1.43%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.43%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.29%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) COBIT
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
3 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.14%) Docker
3 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.29%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.29%) vSphere
5 2 (2.86%) ProxySG
6 1 (1.43%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.43%) Firmware
6 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.00%) Ansible
3 8 (11.43%) FortiGate
4 7 (10.00%) Grafana
4 7 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.57%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.86%) Argo
7 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.43%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.43%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (21.43%) VMware
3 14 (20.00%) Cisco
3 14 (20.00%) F5
4 13 (18.57%) Zscaler
5 9 (12.86%) Palo Alto
6 7 (10.00%) Fortinet
6 7 (10.00%) IBM
6 7 (10.00%) Oracle
6 7 (10.00%) SAP
7 6 (8.57%) HP
8 5 (7.14%) Meraki
8 5 (7.14%) Red Hat
9 4 (5.71%) CheckPoint
9 4 (5.71%) Splunk
10 2 (2.86%) Blue Coat
10 2 (2.86%) Broadcom
10 2 (2.86%) Citrix
10 2 (2.86%) Dell
10 2 (2.86%) Symantec