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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 347 417
Rank change year-on-year -3 +70 +54
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 69 49 69
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.31% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.42% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 42 19 48
10th Percentile £65,000 £50,750 £64,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £52,875 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -21.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,375 £104,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

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 18,337 11,781 20,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.28% 94.66% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 7,403 14,459
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,542 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
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 £108,000 £122,500 £118,750
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 17 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 17 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 +2 6 £90,000 +28.57% 2
South London +5 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 6 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.35%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.90%) Confluence
4 2 (2.90%) nginx
5 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.45%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.45%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.83%) AWS
2 25 (36.23%) Azure
3 12 (17.39%) GCP
4 11 (15.94%) Serverless
5 9 (13.04%) OpenShift
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (8.70%) Entra ID
7 6 (8.70%) GitHub
7 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (7.25%) Azure AKS
8 5 (7.25%) SaaS
9 4 (5.80%) Datadog
9 4 (5.80%) Nutanix
10 3 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 41 (59.42%) VPN
2 35 (50.72%) Firewall
3 32 (46.38%) BGP
4 24 (34.78%) DNS
5 20 (28.99%) WAN
6 18 (26.09%) OSPF
7 16 (23.19%) LAN
7 16 (23.19%) TCP/IP
8 15 (21.74%) Network Security
9 14 (20.29%) VLAN
10 12 (17.39%) SD-WAN
11 9 (13.04%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (13.04%) Cisco ISE
12 8 (11.59%) VoIP
13 7 (10.14%) VXLAN
14 6 (8.70%) IPsec
15 4 (5.80%) MPLS
16 3 (4.35%) HTTP
16 3 (4.35%) SSL
16 3 (4.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) Big Data
2 6 (8.70%) Apache Hive
2 6 (8.70%) Hadoop
2 6 (8.70%) HBase
2 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.90%) MySQL
5 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
6 1 (1.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (2.90%) Git
2 2 (2.90%) JIRA
3 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (39.13%) Finance
2 26 (37.68%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Banking
3 8 (11.59%) Marketing
4 7 (10.14%) Retail
4 7 (10.14%) Retail Banking
5 6 (8.70%) Law
5 6 (8.70%) Military
5 6 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.80%) Legal
8 3 (4.35%) Back Office
8 3 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.45%) Advertising
10 1 (1.45%) Aviation
10 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Network Engineer
2 13 (18.84%) Senior
3 12 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Network Security Specialist
5 6 (8.70%) Network Specialist
5 6 (8.70%) Security Specialist
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Network Security Specialist
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Network Specialist
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Security Specialist
6 5 (7.25%) Architect
6 5 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.35%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) Node.js
2 7 (10.14%) 802.1X
2 7 (10.14%) Kafka
3 4 (5.80%) RESTful
4 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.90%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (2.90%) REST
5 1 (1.45%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (1.45%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.45%) gRPC
5 1 (1.45%) Middleware
5 1 (1.45%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (1.45%) OAuth
5 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.45%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.45%) OpenID
5 1 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.45%) pytest
5 1 (1.45%) Swagger
5 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.43%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
3 9 (13.04%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.80%) Blog
4 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.45%) CMDB
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (31.88%) Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Windows
3 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.90%) CentOS
4 2 (2.90%) Rocky
4 2 (2.90%) Unix
4 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.03%) Infrastructure as Code
2 27 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 20 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (26.09%) DevOps
5 17 (24.64%) Roadmaps
6 14 (20.29%) Analytics
6 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (18.84%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 12 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (17.39%) ITIL
9 11 (15.94%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (15.94%) Mentoring
10 9 (13.04%) AI
10 9 (13.04%) Computer Science
10 9 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (11.59%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (11.59%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 28 (40.58%) Python
2 11 (15.94%) SQL
3 10 (14.49%) Java
4 8 (11.59%) Bash
5 7 (10.14%) C
6 6 (8.70%) C#
6 6 (8.70%) PHP
6 6 (8.70%) Ruby
7 5 (7.25%) Go
7 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (27.54%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (20.29%) CCNP
3 10 (14.49%) Degree
4 6 (8.70%) CCNA
4 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 5 (7.25%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) CCIE
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.45%) CCSP
8 1 (1.45%) CISM
8 1 (1.45%) CISSP
8 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.45%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.45%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) PCI DSS
1 3 (4.35%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.90%) GDPR
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) COBIT
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Active Directory
1 7 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.45%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.45%) Firmware
3 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.45%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (39.13%) Terraform
2 19 (27.54%) Kubernetes
3 16 (23.19%) Ansible
4 8 (11.59%) Check_MK
5 6 (8.70%) FortiGate
5 6 (8.70%) Hadoop YARN
6 5 (7.25%) Grafana
7 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.35%) Proxmox
7 3 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.90%) Argo
8 2 (2.90%) Istio
8 2 (2.90%) Nagios
8 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.45%) Cilium
9 1 (1.45%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (26.09%) Cisco
2 17 (24.64%) Microsoft
3 14 (20.29%) Palo Alto
4 13 (18.84%) VMware
5 10 (14.49%) SolarWinds
5 10 (14.49%) Zscaler
6 8 (11.59%) Oracle
7 7 (10.14%) Fortinet
7 7 (10.14%) IBM
7 7 (10.14%) Red Hat
7 7 (10.14%) SAP
8 6 (8.70%) F5
8 6 (8.70%) HP
9 4 (5.80%) Veeam
10 3 (4.35%) Dell
10 3 (4.35%) Meraki
11 2 (2.90%) Arista
11 2 (2.90%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.90%) Citrix
12 1 (1.45%) NVIDIA