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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 387 380
Rank change year-on-year +42 -7 +113
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 47 30 93
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.29% 0.21% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.22% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 72
10th Percentile £42,000 £46,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £94,375 £88,125
90th Percentile £106,250 £118,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £50,860 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.62% +4.17% -5.88%

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 13,824 13,919 19,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.01% 95.81% 91.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,922 7,771 15,698
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,881 £39,231
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,750 £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 £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +18 4 £102,500 +17.14% 4
South London +36 2 £47,500 -2.56%
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 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) MS Visio
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) AWS
3 8 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (17.02%) SaaS
3 8 (17.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (14.89%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (14.89%) Amazon S3
4 7 (14.89%) AWS Direct Connect
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (12.77%) Route 53
6 4 (8.51%) GCP
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) Datadog
8 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.26%) Serverless
9 1 (2.13%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 32 (68.09%) Firewall
2 22 (46.81%) VPN
3 19 (40.43%) LAN
3 19 (40.43%) WAN
4 18 (38.30%) BGP
5 17 (36.17%) SD-WAN
6 12 (25.53%) OSPF
7 11 (23.40%) DNS
7 11 (23.40%) TCP/IP
8 9 (19.15%) VLAN
9 8 (17.02%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (17.02%) VoIP
9 8 (17.02%) Wireless
10 7 (14.89%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (14.89%) DHCP
11 5 (10.64%) Wireshark
12 4 (8.51%) Network Security
13 3 (6.38%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (6.38%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (6.38%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) GitLab
1 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.04%) Finance
3 9 (19.15%) Banking
4 8 (17.02%) Telecoms
5 7 (14.89%) Law
5 7 (14.89%) Retail
5 7 (14.89%) Retail Banking
6 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (12.77%) Back Office
6 6 (12.77%) Financial Institution
6 6 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (6.38%) Marketing
9 2 (4.26%) Legal
9 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (48.94%) Network Engineer
2 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Network Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) 802.1X
2 6 (12.77%) RESTful
3 1 (2.13%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.13%) Next.js
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (53.19%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.02%) Cloud Native
3 7 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
5 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
5 4 (8.51%) Virtual Team
6 3 (6.38%) Blog
6 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (6.38%) Private Cloud
7 2 (4.26%) Replication
8 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Windows
2 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.51%) Linux
4 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (31.91%) Platform Engineering
4 14 (29.79%) CI/CD
5 13 (27.66%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (21.28%) ITIL
7 10 (21.28%) Observability
8 9 (19.15%) Change Management
8 9 (19.15%) Validation
9 8 (17.02%) DevOps
10 7 (14.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 7 (14.89%) Network Virtualisation
11 6 (12.77%) API Management
11 6 (12.77%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 6 (12.77%) Network Monitoring
11 6 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (12.77%) Problem Management
11 6 (12.77%) SOA
12 5 (10.64%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Python
2 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
3 6 (12.77%) Go
3 6 (12.77%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) Bash
5 3 (6.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) CCNP
1 15 (31.91%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (14.89%) Degree
3 6 (12.77%) CCIE
4 3 (6.38%) CCSA
4 3 (6.38%) CCSE
4 3 (6.38%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CCNA
6 1 (2.13%) Check Point Certification
6 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) SOC 2
2 6 (12.77%) PCI DSS
3 4 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (4.26%) PMO
5 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.64%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.51%) Docker
4 3 (6.38%) vSphere
5 2 (4.26%) Firmware
5 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (40.43%) Terraform
2 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.89%) Check_MK
4 5 (10.64%) Ansible
5 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.26%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (61.70%) Cisco
2 16 (34.04%) Palo Alto
3 14 (29.79%) SolarWinds
4 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
5 10 (21.28%) CheckPoint
6 9 (19.15%) F5
7 8 (17.02%) VMware
8 5 (10.64%) Meraki
9 4 (8.51%) Infoblox
10 3 (6.38%) EMC
10 3 (6.38%) Fortinet
10 3 (6.38%) Splunk
11 2 (4.26%) Dell
11 2 (4.26%) Motorola
12 1 (2.13%) AlgoSec
12 1 (2.13%) iManage
12 1 (2.13%) Intapp
12 1 (2.13%) Zscaler