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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 342 406
Rank change year-on-year -27 +64 +49
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 65 54 65
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.28% 0.44% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.47% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 39 21 46
10th Percentile £65,000 £50,750 £63,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £74,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -21.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £142,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +10.13%

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 19,054 11,583 18,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.16% 94.42% 89.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12,959 7,351 12,508
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +4 6 £90,000 +28.57% 3
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 (9.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.62%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.08%) nginx
4 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.54%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.54%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) AWS
2 23 (35.38%) Azure
3 13 (20.00%) GCP
4 10 (15.38%) Serverless
5 9 (13.85%) OpenShift
6 7 (10.77%) GitHub
6 7 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (9.23%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (7.69%) Datadog
9 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.15%) Azure AKS
9 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.15%) Nutanix
10 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.62%) Rubrik
10 3 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 34 (52.31%) Firewall
1 34 (52.31%) VPN
2 26 (40.00%) BGP
3 24 (36.92%) DNS
4 18 (27.69%) Network Security
4 18 (27.69%) WAN
5 15 (23.08%) LAN
5 15 (23.08%) OSPF
6 12 (18.46%) SD-WAN
6 12 (18.46%) TCP/IP
7 10 (15.38%) VLAN
8 9 (13.85%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (10.77%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (10.77%) VXLAN
10 6 (9.23%) IPsec
10 6 (9.23%) MPLS
10 6 (9.23%) VoIP
11 5 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 5 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (7.69%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) Big Data
2 6 (9.23%) Apache Hive
2 6 (9.23%) Hadoop
2 6 (9.23%) HBase
2 6 (9.23%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.08%) MySQL
4 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.54%) Redis
5 1 (1.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) GitLab
2 2 (3.08%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) JIRA
General
1 27 (41.54%) Finance
2 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Marketing
4 7 (10.77%) Law
5 6 (9.23%) Military
5 6 (9.23%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.69%) Retail Banking
7 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.15%) Banking
7 4 (6.15%) Legal
8 3 (4.62%) Retail
9 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.54%) Advertising
10 1 (1.54%) Aviation
10 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.54%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Network Security Specialist
4 6 (9.23%) Network Specialist
4 6 (9.23%) Security Specialist
4 6 (9.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 6 (9.23%) Senior Network Security Specialist
4 6 (9.23%) Senior Network Specialist
4 6 (9.23%) Senior Security Specialist
5 5 (7.69%) Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Lead
6 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) Node.js
2 7 (10.77%) Kafka
3 5 (7.69%) 802.1X
4 4 (6.15%) REST
5 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.08%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (3.08%) pytest
6 1 (1.54%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (1.54%) Dropwizard
6 1 (1.54%) gRPC
6 1 (1.54%) Micronaut
6 1 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.54%) OAuth
6 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.54%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.54%) OpenID
6 1 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.54%) RESTful
6 1 (1.54%) Swagger
6 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.69%) Data Centre
2 10 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Replication
5 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Blog
6 1 (1.54%) CMDB
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (33.85%) Linux
2 6 (9.23%) Windows
3 3 (4.62%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.08%) CentOS
4 2 (3.08%) Rocky
4 2 (3.08%) Unix
4 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.38%) CI/CD
1 23 (35.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (26.15%) Roadmaps
3 16 (24.62%) DevOps
3 16 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.54%) Analytics
5 11 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (15.38%) AI
6 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 10 (15.38%) ITIL
6 10 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 9 (13.85%) Computer Science
7 9 (13.85%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (12.31%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (12.31%) Zero Trust
9 7 (10.77%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 25 (38.46%) Python
2 11 (16.92%) SQL
3 8 (12.31%) Bash
4 7 (10.77%) C
4 7 (10.77%) Java
5 6 (9.23%) C#
5 6 (9.23%) PHP
5 6 (9.23%) Ruby
6 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.08%) Go
7 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (23.08%) CCNP
3 10 (15.38%) Degree
4 6 (9.23%) CCNA
5 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
6 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.62%) CCIE
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.54%) CCSP
9 1 (1.54%) CISM
9 1 (1.54%) CISSP
9 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.54%) JNCIE
9 1 (1.54%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) COBIT
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.08%) Docker
3 2 (3.08%) ProxySG
4 1 (1.54%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (32.31%) Terraform
2 18 (27.69%) Kubernetes
3 17 (26.15%) Ansible
4 6 (9.23%) Check_MK
4 6 (9.23%) FortiGate
4 6 (9.23%) Grafana
4 6 (9.23%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.62%) Proxmox
6 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.08%) Argo
7 2 (3.08%) Istio
7 2 (3.08%) Nagios
7 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.54%) Cilium
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Cisco
2 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
3 13 (20.00%) VMware
3 13 (20.00%) Zscaler
4 12 (18.46%) Palo Alto
5 9 (13.85%) F5
6 8 (12.31%) Oracle
6 8 (12.31%) SolarWinds
7 7 (10.77%) IBM
7 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
7 7 (10.77%) SAP
8 6 (9.23%) Fortinet
8 6 (9.23%) HP
9 5 (7.69%) Meraki
10 4 (6.15%) CheckPoint
10 4 (6.15%) Veeam
11 2 (3.08%) Blue Coat
11 2 (3.08%) Citrix
11 2 (3.08%) Dell
11 2 (3.08%) Symantec