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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 363 413
Rank change year-on-year +13 +50 +100
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 52 33 77
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.27% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.27% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 59
10th Percentile £44,625 £47,125 £54,500
25th Percentile £47,617 £53,938 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -14.01% -0.32%
75th Percentile £93,750 £100,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,875 £130,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% +4.17%

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 15,888 12,435 20,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.69% 96.14% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,390 7,552 16,044
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 13 April 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 13 April 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 +12 7 £90,000 +5.88% 10
South London +23 2 £47,500 -5.00% 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 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) nginx
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) AWS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
3 10 (19.23%) Amazon S3
3 10 (19.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (17.31%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (17.31%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (15.38%) GCP
5 8 (15.38%) SaaS
6 7 (13.46%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (11.54%) Route 53
8 5 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (7.69%) Datadog
9 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
9 4 (7.69%) Serverless
10 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.77%) GitHub
10 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (55.77%) Firewall
2 25 (48.08%) VPN
3 17 (32.69%) BGP
3 17 (32.69%) WAN
4 16 (30.77%) DNS
5 14 (26.92%) LAN
5 14 (26.92%) SD-WAN
6 11 (21.15%) TCP/IP
6 11 (21.15%) VLAN
7 10 (19.23%) OSPF
8 9 (17.31%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (17.31%) VoIP
9 8 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
9 8 (15.38%) DHCP
10 5 (9.62%) Multicast
11 4 (7.69%) Network Security
12 2 (3.85%) MPLS
12 2 (3.85%) SAN
12 2 (3.85%) Wireless
12 2 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) GitLab
2 3 (5.77%) Git
2 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 12 (23.08%) Banking
4 9 (17.31%) Retail
5 8 (15.38%) Retail Banking
6 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (13.46%) Law
7 6 (11.54%) Back Office
7 6 (11.54%) Financial Institution
7 6 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.85%) Legal
9 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.92%) Advertising
10 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Network Engineer
2 17 (32.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior
5 6 (11.54%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Deployment Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) 802.1X
2 6 (11.54%) RESTful
3 3 (5.77%) Node.js
4 2 (3.85%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.92%) gRPC
5 1 (1.92%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) Next.js
5 1 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.92%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (17.31%) Cloud Native
3 8 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 3 (5.77%) Blog
5 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.77%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Replication
6 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Windows
2 8 (15.38%) Linux
3 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.85%) CentOS
5 2 (3.85%) Rocky
5 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 18 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
4 15 (28.85%) DevOps
5 14 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (23.08%) ITIL
7 11 (21.15%) Observability
8 9 (17.31%) Validation
9 8 (15.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 7 (13.46%) High Availability
10 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
11 6 (11.54%) API Management
11 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (11.54%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 6 (11.54%) Low Latency
11 6 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (11.54%) SOA
12 5 (9.62%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) Python
2 9 (17.31%) Bash
2 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
3 8 (15.38%) Go
4 6 (11.54%) Java
5 3 (5.77%) Bicep
6 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (25.00%) CCNP
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) CCIE
4 3 (5.77%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.85%) CCNA
5 2 (3.85%) CCSA
5 2 (3.85%) CCSE
5 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) CISM
6 1 (1.92%) CISSP
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) SOC 2
2 6 (11.54%) PCI DSS
3 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.85%) QA
5 1 (1.92%) COBIT
5 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (7.69%) Docker
5 3 (5.77%) vSphere
6 2 (3.85%) Firmware
6 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (51.92%) Terraform
2 11 (21.15%) Ansible
2 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.38%) Check_MK
4 4 (7.69%) Grafana
4 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.85%) Istio
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.85%) Nagios
5 2 (3.85%) Proxmox
5 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.92%) Argo
6 1 (1.92%) Cilium
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Cisco
2 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
3 12 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 12 (23.08%) VMware
4 10 (19.23%) SolarWinds
5 7 (13.46%) F5
6 4 (7.69%) Dell
6 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.77%) CheckPoint
7 3 (5.77%) EMC
7 3 (5.77%) Splunk
7 3 (5.77%) Zscaler
8 2 (3.85%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.85%) Infoblox
8 2 (3.85%) Veeam
9 1 (1.92%) AlgoSec
9 1 (1.92%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.92%) Commvault
9 1 (1.92%) Meraki
9 1 (1.92%) Oracle