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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 354 429
Rank change year-on-year -10 +75 +54
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 60 39 71
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.28% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.33% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 39 15 52
10th Percentile £64,250 - £61,375
25th Percentile £67,500 £50,750 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -31.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £93,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.90%

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 17,811 11,656 21,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.91% 95.64% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,181 7,073 15,932
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,420 £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 £122,500 £117,500
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 26 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 26 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 +2 6 £90,000 +28.57% 4
South London +16 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
3 2 (3.33%) nginx
4 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.67%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.67%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) AWS
2 24 (40.00%) Azure
3 13 (21.67%) GCP
4 9 (15.00%) OpenShift
5 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 6 (10.00%) Serverless
6 6 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.67%) Datadog
8 4 (6.67%) Nutanix
8 4 (6.67%) SaaS
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (58.33%) VPN
2 33 (55.00%) Firewall
3 26 (43.33%) BGP
4 20 (33.33%) WAN
5 18 (30.00%) OSPF
6 17 (28.33%) DNS
7 15 (25.00%) LAN
8 13 (21.67%) TCP/IP
8 13 (21.67%) VLAN
9 12 (20.00%) Network Security
9 12 (20.00%) SD-WAN
10 10 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (16.67%) VoIP
11 9 (15.00%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (11.67%) VXLAN
13 3 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
13 3 (5.00%) HSRP
13 3 (5.00%) Multicast
13 3 (5.00%) WLAN
14 2 (3.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Hive
3 2 (3.33%) Big Data
3 2 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.33%) HBase
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) GitLab
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Retail Banking
4 7 (11.67%) Banking
4 7 (11.67%) Retail
5 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.67%) Law
7 3 (5.00%) Back Office
7 3 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.00%) Legal
7 3 (5.00%) Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Military
8 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.67%) Advertising
9 1 (1.67%) Aviation
9 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Senior
3 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Network Security Specialist
4 6 (10.00%) Network Specialist
4 6 (10.00%) Security Specialist
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Network Security Specialist
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Network Specialist
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Security Specialist
5 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) 802.1X
2 5 (8.33%) Node.js
3 4 (6.67%) RESTful
4 3 (5.00%) Kafka
5 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.33%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (1.67%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.67%) gRPC
6 1 (1.67%) Middleware
6 1 (1.67%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.67%) OAuth
6 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.67%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.67%) OpenID
6 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.67%) pytest
6 1 (1.67%) REST
6 1 (1.67%) Swagger
6 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (35.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Blog
4 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.00%) Replication
5 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) CMDB
6 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.67%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.33%) CentOS
4 2 (3.33%) Rocky
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (38.33%) CI/CD
3 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (28.33%) DevOps
5 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (21.67%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (20.00%) ITIL
7 11 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (18.33%) Roadmaps
8 9 (15.00%) Analytics
8 9 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (15.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 9 (15.00%) Observability
9 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
9 8 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (13.33%) Zero Trust
10 6 (10.00%) Cloud Security
10 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.00%) Python
2 9 (15.00%) Bash
3 7 (11.67%) SQL
4 6 (10.00%) Java
5 5 (8.33%) Go
5 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.00%) C
7 2 (3.33%) C#
7 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.33%) PHP
7 2 (3.33%) Ruby
8 1 (1.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (21.67%) CCNP
3 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) CCNA
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 5 (8.33%) Degree
5 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) CCIE
6 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.67%) CCSP
7 1 (1.67%) CISM
7 1 (1.67%) CISSP
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) COBIT
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
1 7 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.67%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.67%) Firmware
3 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (45.00%) Terraform
2 19 (31.67%) Kubernetes
3 14 (23.33%) Ansible
4 9 (15.00%) Check_MK
5 6 (10.00%) FortiGate
6 5 (8.33%) Grafana
7 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
8 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (5.00%) Proxmox
8 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (3.33%) Argo
9 2 (3.33%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (3.33%) Istio
9 2 (3.33%) Nagios
9 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.67%) Cilium
10 1 (1.67%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Cisco
2 15 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
4 12 (20.00%) VMware
5 11 (18.33%) SolarWinds
6 8 (13.33%) Zscaler
7 7 (11.67%) Fortinet
7 7 (11.67%) Red Hat
8 4 (6.67%) Oracle
9 3 (5.00%) Dell
9 3 (5.00%) IBM
9 3 (5.00%) Veeam
10 2 (3.33%) Citrix
10 2 (3.33%) F5
10 2 (3.33%) HP
10 2 (3.33%) Meraki
10 2 (3.33%) SAP
11 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.67%) Cognizant
11 1 (1.67%) Commvault