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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 400 360
Rank change year-on-year +76 -40 +165
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 58 32 93
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.44% 0.20% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.21% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 20 21 80
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,617 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.81% -6.77%
75th Percentile £106,250 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £102,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

All Process and 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 11,924 15,163 16,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.77% 93.67% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,679 8,735 13,532
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £121,250 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 +46 3 £102,500 +17.14% 4
East London - 2 - -
South London +37 1 £47,500 -5.00% 2
West London - 1 - -
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 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) JBoss
2 2 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (31.03%) MS Visio
2 12 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (46.55%) Azure
2 20 (34.48%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (6.90%) GCP
3 4 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.17%) Route 53
4 3 (5.17%) SaaS
5 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Datadog
6 1 (1.72%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 40 (68.97%) Firewall
2 38 (65.52%) LAN
3 27 (46.55%) WAN
4 26 (44.83%) Wireless
5 25 (43.10%) VPN
6 23 (39.66%) BGP
7 20 (34.48%) OSPF
8 19 (32.76%) SD-WAN
9 14 (24.14%) Wireshark
10 13 (22.41%) DNS
11 12 (20.69%) EIGRP
11 12 (20.69%) Network Security
12 10 (17.24%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (15.52%) TCP/IP
14 8 (13.79%) DHCP
15 7 (12.07%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (12.07%) Cisco Nexus
16 6 (10.34%) Cisco IOS
16 6 (10.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 6 (10.34%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Git
1 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
1 3 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.45%) Ant
2 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.45%) Maven
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 30 (51.72%) Finance
2 26 (44.83%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.69%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (17.24%) Telecoms
6 7 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (10.34%) Marketing
8 5 (8.62%) Banking
9 4 (6.90%) Law
10 3 (5.17%) Back Office
10 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
10 3 (5.17%) Retail
11 1 (1.72%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 36 (62.07%) Network Engineer
2 17 (29.31%) Senior
3 15 (25.86%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (15.52%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Deployment Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Network Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Network Support
8 4 (6.90%) Network Support Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Support Analyst
9 3 (5.17%) Architect
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Network Architect
10 2 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.17%) RESTful
3 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.45%) Kafka
3 2 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (56.90%) Data Centre
2 10 (17.24%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (6.90%) Low-Code
3 4 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.90%) Web3
4 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) PKI
5 2 (3.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.17%) Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (25.86%) Change Management
3 14 (24.14%) Network Monitoring
3 14 (24.14%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (22.41%) Inventory Management
4 13 (22.41%) Validation
5 12 (20.69%) Capacity Planning
5 12 (20.69%) Change Control
5 12 (20.69%) Customer Service
6 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (18.97%) Low Latency
7 9 (15.52%) DevOps
7 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (15.52%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (15.52%) Problem Management
7 9 (15.52%) Process Improvement
8 8 (13.79%) Asset Management
8 8 (13.79%) Coaching
8 8 (13.79%) Computer Science
8 8 (13.79%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) Python
2 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.17%) Bash
3 3 (5.17%) Go
3 3 (5.17%) Java
4 2 (3.45%) Groovy
5 1 (1.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 29 (50.00%) CCNP
1 29 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (36.21%) Degree
3 20 (34.48%) CCIE
4 9 (15.52%) CCSA
5 8 (13.79%) CCSE
6 7 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.72%) CCNA
9 1 (1.72%) Check Point Certification
9 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.72%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) PMO
2 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.90%) SOC 2
4 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.45%) SLA
6 1 (1.72%) GDPR
6 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) Active Directory
1 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.90%) ProxySG
2 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (6.90%) vSphere
3 3 (5.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.45%) pfSense
5 1 (1.72%) Docker
5 1 (1.72%) Firmware
5 1 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Ansible
2 13 (22.41%) Terraform
3 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.45%) Podman
4 2 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (1.72%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.72%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 47 (81.03%) Cisco
2 27 (46.55%) CheckPoint
2 27 (46.55%) F5
3 21 (36.21%) SolarWinds
4 17 (29.31%) Palo Alto
5 9 (15.52%) Meraki
5 9 (15.52%) VMware
6 8 (13.79%) Infoblox
7 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
8 6 (10.34%) Motorola
9 5 (8.62%) Arista
9 5 (8.62%) Aruba
10 4 (6.90%) Blue Coat
11 3 (5.17%) EMC
12 2 (3.45%) Fortinet
12 2 (3.45%) Splunk
13 1 (1.72%) AlgoSec
13 1 (1.72%) Dell
13 1 (1.72%) Juniper
13 1 (1.72%) Zscaler