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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 389 357
Rank change year-on-year +78 -32 +169
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 58 34 92
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.42% 0.21% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.23% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 22 21 77
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,617 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% -7.10%
75th Percentile £106,250 £91,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -4.17%

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 12,175 14,984 16,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.61% 94.20% 93.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,789 8,470 13,387
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +1.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £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 26 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 26 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 +39 4 £102,500 +17.14% 7
East London - 2 - -
South London +37 1 £47,500 -5.00% 1
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 17 (29.31%) MS Visio
2 11 (18.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (46.55%) Azure
2 21 (36.21%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (6.90%) GCP
3 4 (6.90%) SaaS
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
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.72%) Datadog
6 1 (1.72%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 39 (67.24%) Firewall
2 36 (62.07%) LAN
3 26 (44.83%) WAN
4 25 (43.10%) Wireless
5 24 (41.38%) VPN
6 22 (37.93%) BGP
7 19 (32.76%) OSPF
8 18 (31.03%) SD-WAN
9 14 (24.14%) DNS
10 13 (22.41%) Wireshark
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 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.17%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.45%) Ant
3 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.45%) GitLab
3 2 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 29 (50.00%) Finance
2 26 (44.83%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Documentation 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 35 (60.34%) Network Engineer
2 18 (31.03%) Senior
3 15 (25.86%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (15.52%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Analyst
6 6 (10.34%) Deployment Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Network Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Network Support
7 4 (6.90%) Network Support Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
9 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
4 1 (1.72%) Next.js
4 1 (1.72%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (55.17%) 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%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Low-Code
3 4 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.90%) Web3
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 10 (17.24%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
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 Virtualisation
4 13 (22.41%) Network Monitoring
4 13 (22.41%) Validation
5 12 (20.69%) Capacity Planning
5 12 (20.69%) Customer Service
5 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (20.69%) Inventory Management
6 11 (18.97%) Change Control
6 11 (18.97%) Low Latency
7 10 (17.24%) DevOps
8 9 (15.52%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.52%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (15.52%) Problem Management
8 9 (15.52%) Process Improvement
9 8 (13.79%) Asset Management
9 8 (13.79%) Coaching
9 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (13.79%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) Python
2 8 (13.79%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.62%) Bash
4 3 (5.17%) Go
4 3 (5.17%) Java
5 2 (3.45%) Bicep
5 2 (3.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (46.55%) CCNP
1 27 (46.55%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (32.76%) Degree
3 18 (31.03%) CCIE
4 9 (15.52%) CCSA
5 8 (13.79%) CCSE
6 7 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.45%) ISTQB
7 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.72%) CCNA
8 1 (1.72%) Check Point Certification
8 1 (1.72%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) PMO
2 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.90%) SOC 2
3 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.45%) SLA
5 1 (1.72%) GDPR
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%) Docker
3 3 (5.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.45%) pfSense
5 1 (1.72%) Firmware
5 1 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Ansible
1 14 (24.14%) Terraform
2 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.45%) Podman
3 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.45%) Puppet
4 1 (1.72%) CA Spectrum
4 1 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.72%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (79.31%) Cisco
2 26 (44.83%) CheckPoint
2 26 (44.83%) F5
3 20 (34.48%) SolarWinds
4 17 (29.31%) Palo Alto
5 9 (15.52%) Meraki
5 9 (15.52%) VMware
6 8 (13.79%) Infoblox
6 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
7 6 (10.34%) Motorola
8 5 (8.62%) Arista
8 5 (8.62%) Aruba
9 4 (6.90%) Blue Coat
10 3 (5.17%) EMC
10 3 (5.17%) Splunk
11 2 (3.45%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.72%) AlgoSec
12 1 (1.72%) Dell
12 1 (1.72%) Juniper
12 1 (1.72%) Zscaler