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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 400 370
Rank change year-on-year +74 -30 +140
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 50 30 86
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.35% 0.19% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.20% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 71
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,025 £47,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -6.45%
75th Percentile £106,250 £91,250 £85,625
90th Percentile £142,500 £119,500 £96,250
England median annual salary £56,250 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.64% -12.00%

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 12,475 14,691 16,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.52% 94.64% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,963 8,064 13,533
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +32 4 £102,500 +17.14% 3
South London +37 1 £47,500 -5.00%
East London - 1 - - 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 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) JBoss
2 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (30.00%) MS Visio
2 11 (22.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (8.00%) GCP
3 4 (8.00%) SaaS
3 4 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.00%) Route 53
5 1 (2.00%) Datadog
5 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 32 (64.00%) Firewall
2 29 (58.00%) LAN
3 21 (42.00%) WAN
4 18 (36.00%) Wireless
5 16 (32.00%) SD-WAN
5 16 (32.00%) VPN
6 15 (30.00%) BGP
7 13 (26.00%) DNS
8 12 (24.00%) OSPF
9 10 (20.00%) Wireshark
10 8 (16.00%) Network Security
10 8 (16.00%) TCP/IP
11 7 (14.00%) DHCP
11 7 (14.00%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (12.00%) EIGRP
13 5 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (8.00%) Ethernet VPN
14 4 (8.00%) VLAN
14 4 (8.00%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.00%) Ant
4 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.00%) Maven
General
1 25 (50.00%) Finance
2 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 5 (10.00%) Banking
5 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (8.00%) Law
6 4 (8.00%) Marketing
7 3 (6.00%) Back Office
7 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (58.00%) Network Engineer
2 13 (26.00%) Senior
3 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Network Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Network Support
6 4 (8.00%) Network Support Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) 802.1X
1 3 (6.00%) RESTful
2 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.00%) Kafka
2 1 (2.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.00%) Next.js
2 1 (2.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (56.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (18.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.00%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.00%) Low-Code
4 3 (6.00%) Private Cloud
4 3 (6.00%) Web3
5 2 (4.00%) Replication
6 1 (2.00%) PKI
6 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Validation
2 14 (28.00%) Change Management
2 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (24.00%) Network Monitoring
3 12 (24.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 11 (22.00%) Capacity Planning
4 11 (22.00%) Change Control
4 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (22.00%) Inventory Management
5 10 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 10 (20.00%) Low Latency
6 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (18.00%) DevOps
6 9 (18.00%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (18.00%) Problem Management
7 8 (16.00%) Asset Management
7 8 (16.00%) Coaching
7 8 (16.00%) Network Planning
8 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Python
2 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.00%) Bash
4 3 (6.00%) Bicep
4 3 (6.00%) Go
4 3 (6.00%) Java
5 1 (2.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) CCNP
1 22 (44.00%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (32.00%) Degree
3 15 (30.00%) CCIE
4 8 (16.00%) CCSA
4 8 (16.00%) CCSE
5 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.00%) ISTQB
7 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.00%) CCNA
8 1 (2.00%) Check Point Certification
8 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.00%) PMO
1 4 (8.00%) SOC 2
2 3 (6.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.00%) Docker
4 3 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (6.00%) vSphere
5 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.00%) ProxySG
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.00%) Firmware
6 1 (2.00%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Terraform
2 10 (20.00%) Ansible
3 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Check_MK
5 1 (2.00%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.00%) Podman
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (78.00%) Cisco
2 22 (44.00%) CheckPoint
3 19 (38.00%) F5
4 15 (30.00%) Palo Alto
4 15 (30.00%) SolarWinds
5 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
6 8 (16.00%) Meraki
6 8 (16.00%) VMware
7 6 (12.00%) Infoblox
8 5 (10.00%) Arista
9 4 (8.00%) Motorola
10 3 (6.00%) EMC
10 3 (6.00%) Splunk
11 2 (4.00%) Aruba
11 2 (4.00%) Blue Coat
11 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
12 1 (2.00%) AlgoSec
12 1 (2.00%) Dell
12 1 (2.00%) Zscaler