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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 379 408
Rank change year-on-year +33 +29 +100
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 49 29 81
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.29% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.22% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24 16 59
10th Percentile £42,375 £45,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -16.13% -
75th Percentile £85,313 £100,938 £90,625
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +2.08% -4.00%

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 14,477 13,067 20,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.44% 96.22% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,388 7,587 15,910
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,442 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +4.06% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +8 4 £102,500 +20.59% 8
South London +34 2 £47,500 -2.56%
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 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) nginx
3 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) AWS
2 15 (30.61%) Azure
3 10 (20.41%) Amazon S3
3 10 (20.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (18.37%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (18.37%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (16.33%) SaaS
6 7 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (12.24%) Route 53
8 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (10.20%) GCP
9 4 (8.16%) Datadog
9 4 (8.16%) Serverless
10 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (6.12%) GitHub
10 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 32 (65.31%) Firewall
2 25 (51.02%) VPN
3 19 (38.78%) BGP
4 18 (36.73%) WAN
5 17 (34.69%) LAN
6 16 (32.65%) SD-WAN
7 14 (28.57%) DNS
8 13 (26.53%) OSPF
9 11 (22.45%) TCP/IP
10 10 (20.41%) VLAN
11 9 (18.37%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (18.37%) VoIP
12 8 (16.33%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (14.29%) DHCP
14 6 (12.24%) Wireless
15 3 (6.12%) Cisco ASA
15 3 (6.12%) Cisco Nexus
15 3 (6.12%) Multicast
15 3 (6.12%) Network Security
15 3 (6.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.04%) MySQL
2 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) GitLab
2 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) Git
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (46.94%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.61%) Finance
3 11 (22.45%) Banking
4 8 (16.33%) Retail Banking
5 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (14.29%) Law
5 7 (14.29%) Retail
6 6 (12.24%) Back Office
6 6 (12.24%) Financial Institution
6 6 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
7 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (6.12%) Marketing
8 2 (4.08%) Legal
8 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (44.90%) Network Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Senior
4 8 (16.33%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Network Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) 802.1X
2 6 (12.24%) RESTful
3 2 (4.08%) Node.js
4 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.04%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (2.04%) Next.js
4 1 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (51.02%) Data Centre
2 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
3 7 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
4 4 (8.16%) Virtual Team
5 3 (6.12%) Blog
5 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Replication
7 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.12%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.04%) CentOS
4 1 (2.04%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
1 18 (36.73%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (34.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (34.69%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (26.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (24.49%) DevOps
6 11 (22.45%) ITIL
7 10 (20.41%) Observability
8 8 (16.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 8 (16.33%) Validation
9 6 (12.24%) API Management
9 6 (12.24%) Change Management
9 6 (12.24%) Immutable Infrastructure
9 6 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (12.24%) SOA
9 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
10 5 (10.20%) Agile
10 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (10.20%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
3 8 (16.33%) Bash
4 6 (12.24%) Go
4 6 (12.24%) Java
5 3 (6.12%) Bicep
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) CCNP
1 15 (30.61%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.24%) CCIE
2 6 (12.24%) Degree
3 3 (6.12%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.08%) CCSA
4 2 (4.08%) CCSE
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) SOC 2
2 6 (12.24%) PCI DSS
3 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (4.08%) PMO
5 1 (2.04%) GDPR
5 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (8.16%) Docker
5 3 (6.12%) vSphere
6 2 (4.08%) Firmware
6 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (46.94%) Terraform
2 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.33%) Ansible
3 8 (16.33%) Check_MK
4 3 (6.12%) Grafana
4 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.08%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.04%) Argo
6 1 (2.04%) Istio
6 1 (2.04%) Nagios
6 1 (2.04%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 27 (55.10%) Cisco
2 15 (30.61%) Palo Alto
3 14 (28.57%) SolarWinds
4 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
5 9 (18.37%) VMware
6 8 (16.33%) F5
7 7 (14.29%) CheckPoint
8 4 (8.16%) Infoblox
9 3 (6.12%) EMC
9 3 (6.12%) Meraki
9 3 (6.12%) Splunk
10 2 (4.08%) Dell
10 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
10 2 (4.08%) Motorola
11 1 (2.04%) AlgoSec
11 1 (2.04%) iManage
11 1 (2.04%) Intapp
11 1 (2.04%) Oracle
11 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
11 1 (2.04%) Veeam