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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 346 426
Rank change year-on-year -14 +80 +84
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 53 35 81
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.30% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 35 18 61
10th Percentile £43,250 £50,750 £61,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,813 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,000 £107,250 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +7.30%

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 16,914 11,596 21,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.45% 96.08% 90.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,387 6,945 15,847
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -3 6 £90,000 +28.57% 5
South London +10 2 £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 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.77%) nginx
3 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.89%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.89%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.89%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) AWS
2 21 (39.62%) Azure
3 13 (24.53%) GCP
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
4 7 (13.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.43%) Datadog
6 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
6 5 (9.43%) OpenShift
6 5 (9.43%) SaaS
7 4 (7.55%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (7.55%) Serverless
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) GitHub
8 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (60.38%) Firewall
2 30 (56.60%) VPN
3 22 (41.51%) BGP
4 21 (39.62%) WAN
5 16 (30.19%) OSPF
6 15 (28.30%) DNS
7 14 (26.42%) LAN
8 13 (24.53%) SD-WAN
9 12 (22.64%) TCP/IP
10 11 (20.75%) VLAN
11 10 (18.87%) Cisco Firepower
11 10 (18.87%) VoIP
12 9 (16.98%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (16.98%) Network Security
13 4 (7.55%) VXLAN
14 3 (5.66%) DHCP
14 3 (5.66%) Ethernet VPN
14 3 (5.66%) HSRP
14 3 (5.66%) Multicast
14 3 (5.66%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.77%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) GitLab
2 3 (5.66%) Git
2 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.66%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.30%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Retail Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Retail
5 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.55%) Law
6 3 (5.66%) Back Office
6 3 (5.66%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.77%) Legal
7 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.89%) Advertising
8 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Network Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) Senior
4 7 (13.21%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Network Security Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Network Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Security Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Network Security Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Network Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Security Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.66%) Node.js
2 3 (5.66%) RESTful
3 2 (3.77%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (1.89%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.89%) gRPC
4 1 (1.89%) Kafka
4 1 (1.89%) Middleware
4 1 (1.89%) Next.js
4 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.89%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (39.62%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.09%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.66%) Blog
4 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.66%) Replication
5 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Linux
2 9 (16.98%) Windows
3 3 (5.66%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.77%) CentOS
4 2 (3.77%) Rocky
5 1 (1.89%) Unix
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (39.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (37.74%) CI/CD
4 18 (33.96%) DevOps
5 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (22.64%) ITIL
7 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (18.87%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (18.87%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (16.98%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 9 (16.98%) Observability
9 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (15.09%) Validation
10 7 (13.21%) High Availability
10 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
10 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
11 6 (11.32%) Containerisation
11 6 (11.32%) Incident Response
11 6 (11.32%) Roadmaps
12 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Python
2 10 (18.87%) Bash
3 5 (9.43%) Go
4 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.66%) Bicep
5 3 (5.66%) Java
6 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.77%) SQL
7 1 (1.89%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (35.85%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (26.42%) CCNP
3 5 (9.43%) CCNA
4 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.55%) Degree
4 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.66%) CCIE
5 3 (5.66%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.89%) CCSP
7 1 (1.89%) CISM
7 1 (1.89%) CISSP
7 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) SOC 2
2 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) COBIT
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.55%) Docker
4 2 (3.77%) Firmware
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (49.06%) Terraform
2 16 (30.19%) Ansible
3 14 (26.42%) Kubernetes
4 9 (16.98%) Check_MK
5 5 (9.43%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.55%) Grafana
7 3 (5.66%) FortiGate
8 2 (3.77%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (3.77%) Istio
8 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.77%) Nagios
8 2 (3.77%) Proxmox
8 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.89%) Argo
9 1 (1.89%) Cilium
9 1 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Cisco
2 13 (24.53%) Palo Alto
3 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.75%) SolarWinds
4 8 (15.09%) VMware
5 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
5 6 (11.32%) Zscaler
6 5 (9.43%) Fortinet
7 4 (7.55%) Dell
8 3 (5.66%) F5
8 3 (5.66%) Splunk
9 2 (3.77%) Infoblox
9 2 (3.77%) Oracle
9 2 (3.77%) Veeam
10 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.89%) Citrix
10 1 (1.89%) Cognizant
10 1 (1.89%) Commvault
10 1 (1.89%) Computacenter
10 1 (1.89%) IBM